Monthly Archives: May 2014
Cisco’s Top Internet of Things Exec Resigns
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and other executives have pointed to the burgeoning Internet of things—or what they call the Internet of everything—as the...
Google Expands Its Entrepreneurial Network With Austin Incubator
Google's fledgling Tech Hub Network for entrepreneurial communities around the United States is growing again, as the Austin, Texas-based Capital Factory joins Google's continuing...
Beats Acquisition Could Give Apple Needed Features and Younger Appeal
Apple revolutionized the digital music industry, if not arguably created it, with the iPod and iTunes. That industry has since taken on a life...
FCC Commissioners Call for Delay of Net Neutrality Vote
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has called for the Federal Communications Commission to delay its current May 15 plans to address new rulemaking around net...
10 Reasons Web Giants Want the FCC to Enforce Net Neutrality
10 Reasons Web Giants Want the FCC to Enforce Net Neutrality
by Don Reisinger
There's a Cost Involved
Any erosion of the net neutrality policies that have...
7 Surprising Findings From Check Point’s 2014 Security Report
7 Surprising Findings From Check Point's 2014 Security Report
by Sean Michael Kerner
Data Loss Events Are Growing
On a year-over-year basis, Check Point found that across...
Bitly Attacked, Advises Users to Reset Accounts
The CEO of Bitly publicly admitted on May 8 that the company's URL-shortening service was compromised.Bitly CEO Mark Josephson blogged that compromised credentials include...
WANs a Growing Focus for SDN Vendors
Wide-area networks are getting increasing attention from vendors looking to leverage software-defined networking capabilities to make configuring and managing this increasingly complex part of...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 Beta Features Full OpenStack Cloud Distribution
Oracle Solaris 11.2 Beta Features Full OpenStack Cloud Distribution
By Sean Michael Kerner
Mark Hurd Sets the Bar High for Solaris
Oracle President Mark Hurd kicked off...
Google+ Social Network Won’t Get the Ax
There’s been a lot of speculative chatter about Google+ being closed, killed or at least neglected by Google.This news would be disconcerting to me,...