Monthly Archives: June 2014
DARPA Contest Aims to Create Self-Defending Networks
Aiming to make computer networks and systems self-defending, more than 30 teams will compete in the U.S. government's first-ever Cyber Grand Challenge, the Defense...
Microsoft’s Bing Reaches 5-Year Mark as Search Keeps Evolving
Microsoft is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Bing's official launch on June 3. To commemorate the occasion, the company is taking a look back...
What Apple Said About Health Care at WWDC
eWEEK, like other news sites, has been reporting since last year on Apple's plans to enter the health care field. These stories have ranged...
Apple Enters Health Care Space With HealthKit and Some Suspense
Apple, as expected, announced its entry into the health care market during the keynote address of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2.What it...
Snowshoe Spam–a New Type of Junk Email–Starting to Clog Inboxes
Technology vendors over the years have aggressively tackled and partly solved the problem of unsolicited bulk email, which is typically referred to as "spam."...
Mac OS X Yosemite Loaded With Cross-Device Functionality
Mac OS X Yosemite Loaded With Cross-Device Functionality
by Chris Preimesberger
They Call It Yosemite
Perhaps because it's a "monumental" release, or perhaps because it's going to...
Microsoft: Office 365 Data Privacy Assured by ‘Lockbox’
In the year since ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed the U.S. government's alleged cyber-spying capabilities, IT companies have been battling the perception...
Daily Tech Briefing: June 3, 2014
At Apple's 2014 Worldwide Developer Conference the company introduced Yosemite—the newest version of the OS X Macintosh operating and iOS 8, the newest version...
Cavium Intros ThunderX ARM Server Chips at Computex
Cavium later this year will enter the increasingly crowded ARM server chip space with its upcoming ThunderX family of products that will offer up...
Linux Mint 17 With Cinnamon Desktop Keeps Focus on Ease of Use
Linux Mint 17 With Cinnamon Desktop Keeps Focus on Ease of Use
by Sean Michael Kerner
Linux Mint Welcomes Users With Information
After a user installs Linux...