Monthly Archives: June 2014
Microsoft Wages Court Fight to Prevent U.S. Search of Overseas Data
Microsoft has just made public its court filings objecting to demands by the U.S. government that the company turn over email files that are...
Alternative to Zeus Trojan Could Pose Future Threat
In 2011, the source code for a popular malicious program known as Zeus was leaked to the Internet, and since then, many malware developers...
Yammer’s Mobile App Speaks More Languages
Microsoft continues to break down language barriers in business.Yammer has rolled out "message translation in both the iOS and Android Yammer apps, powered by...
HP Unveils Encryption Offerings for Data Centers, Cloud
Hewlett-Packard's Atalla division rolled out new encryption offerings designed to make encryption easier and faster to deploy on-site and in the cloud.The technology, announced...
Google Hangouts+ Helps Bridge Gap Among Mideast Youth
Using Google Hangouts+, Google has been working on an innovative project in the Middle East to use technology to bridge the cultural gaps between...
Egenera Provides Way to Control IT Without Hypervisors
Converged infrastructure and cloud-management software maker Egenera on June 10 released a new version of its PAN Manager software that features new virtual machine-instance...
Google FlightSearch Adds ‘Feeling Lucky’ Button for Travel Info
Google FlightSearch has added a fun new "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to its FlightSearch service so that prospective travelers can see which exciting destinations...
Microsoft Azure Streamlines Docker Container Management
Starting up and managing Docker hosts on Microsoft Azure is now easier, courtesy of new code that integrates with the cloud service's updated command-line...
Google Buying Satellite Vendor Skybox Imaging for $500M
Satellite and satellite imaging vendor Skybox Imaging is being acquired by Google for $500 million as Google continues to buy businesses that it believes...
Daily Tech Briefing: June 11, 2014
Hewlett-Packard is releasing a new family of high-performance computing systems, HP Apollo, which will offer up to four times the performance of standard rack...