Monthly Archives: June 2014
Security Venture Tanium Raises $90M for Next ‘Big Fix’
One of the biggest security challenges that face enterprises today is real-time visibility and threat detection. It's a challenge that Tanium is aiming to...
Sprint Offers a 30-Day Trial ‘Superior’ to T-Mobile Test Drive
Sprint hosted a press event in Chicago June 23 to—like T-Mobile did the week before in Seattle—talk up major improvements to its network and...
Heartbleed Saga Goes On as Google Announces BoringSSL
Nearly three months after the Heartbleed security vulnerability was first reported, its impact is still being felt. It's the kind of excitement that IT...
Daily Tech Briefing: June 23, 2014
Google and Microsoft will be joining Apple in adding a "kill switch" feature into their Mobile device software. The kill switch will erase all...
Google’s Nest Buys Home Video Monitoring Vendor Dropcam
Five months after being acquired by Google in January, Nest Labs is now purchasing in-home video monitoring vendor Dropcam to extend its high-tech services...
IBM, Toyota Team on Connected Car App Dev Platform
IBM announced that Toyota has selected Big Blue to create a new application development platform for mobile app developers to begin building interactive apps...
IBM Serves New Cloud, Analytics, Social Technology at Wimbledon
As play gets under way at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London, IBM is serving fans with an interactive mobile experience with new analytics...
Reuters Readers Redirected by Syrian Electronic Army Attack
The Reuters Website on June 22 was briefly impacted by an attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The SEA is a Syrian...
Booker-Rubio Bill, FCC Want to Close the ‘WiFi Gap’
Washington is talking about WiFi.On June 20, U.S. Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., proposed legislation that would require the Federal Communications...
10 Red Flags to Watch Out for When Selecting a Hosting Provider
10 Red Flags to Watch Out for When Selecting a Hosting Provider
by Chris Preimesberger
Limited or No Uptime Guarantees
This is the first red flag that...