Monthly Archives: August 2014
Backoff Malware Spread Might Have Been Contained With Basic Defenses
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert to businesses throughout the United States about a malware infection that invades point-of-sale (POS)...
Intel Takes Steps Toward Wire-Free Future
Intel officials at the Computex show in June broached the idea of "wire-free" computing, a vision of a world where computing devices do not...
Transactive Memory Applies Technology to Free Up Your Mind
Day Planner-style organizers became a thing when I was in college. This was just a few years before “Smart Wizards” hit and long before...
Game Network DDoS Vandals Hit Sony Exec With Airline Bomb Threat
The Playstation Network, Blizzard's Battle.net and Microsoft's Xbox Live all suffered disruptions in the last 48 hours caused by a group—or perhaps a single...
China to Take On Windows With Homegrown OS in October
Microsoft may soon face a new competitor in China.The country's government is preparing to launch a local competitor to Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system...
Daily Tech Briefing: August 25, 2014
Microsoft is hoping that the Windows Phone 8.1's built-in capabilities will help its newest operating system catch the eye of security-driven U.S. government agencies,...
VMware Partners Announce Numerous New Products at VMworld
SAN FRANCISCO--More than 250 partner companies of host VMware are in attendance at VMworld 2014 through Aug. 28, and a good many of them...
VMware Pours Out New Products to a Virtualization-Hungry World
SAN FRANCISCO--Despite all the talk, all the marketing hype and all the new cloud products and services coming into the marketplace in the last...
Microsoft Borrows From SharePoint Server for Cloud-Based Intranets
Microsoft has issued an update that brings search-based navigation capabilities from the on-premises version of SharePoint to intranets based on SharePoint Online, the company's...
VMware Embraces Docker Container Virtualization
The open-source Docker container virtualization technology has a new ally today. VMware announced a new partnership with Docker, Google and Pivotal to enable container...