Monthly Archives: July 2014
Employees Feel Responsibility to Protect Corporate Data
The protection of important corporate data is seen as a personal responsibility of the employees who work for that organization, despite the fact that...
What the Blackphone Means for Mobile Security
The world needs a secure Android phone like the Blackphone. Not only will it protect users against privacy violations, but it potentially will always...
Windows 9 Needs to Reach Business Users Sooner Rather Than Later
As I write this, I can see the dual progress bars crawling with seeming infinite slowness across the screen attached to the Hewlett-Packard workstation...
Microsoft Takes Down Bladabindi and Jenxcus Botnets
Microsoft's security division hit a big milestone this week.Richard Domingues Boscovich, an attorney with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, announced in a June 30 statement...
HP, Shareholders Officially End Litigation Over Autonomy Buy
Hewlett-Packard and a group of shareholders came to an agreement June 30 to settle a total of three billion-dollar lawsuits involving HP's problematic $11.1...
Google Appeal in Street View Privacy Case Rejected by Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Google involving the company's Street View data collection initiatives in the past few years, meaning...
Google Drops Quickoffice Apps, Orkut Social Media Platform
Google is cutting out its Quickoffice document-conversion application and its 10-year-old Orkut social media platform as part of the company's efforts to constantly slim...
Microsoft, Google Help Create Ethernet Consortium for Clouds
A group of tech companies that include networking vendors (Arista Networks and Mellanox Technologies), cloud companies (Microsoft and Google) and a component maker (Broadcom)...
Microsoft Makes Office Mixes More Discoverable
Microsoft is steadily turning Office Mix into an interactive learning platform.Office Mix is a free PowerPoint add-on that allows users to create sharable interactive...
IBM, Bon Appetit Deliver Watson Cooking App
IBM and Bon Appetit have collaborated to deliver a new cooking app called "Chef Watson with Bon Appetit."The app, which will initially be available...