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Microsoft’s First Patch Tuesday of 2014: No Internet Explorer Fixes?
Microsoft released its advance notification Jan. 9 for the scheduled Jan. 14, 2014, Patch Tuesday update, and it's surprising for a few reasons.The advance...
IBM’s Watson: The Clock Starts Now
Earlier this week IBM launched a new business unit to commercialize and begin to capitalize in earnest on its Watson cognitive computing technology.Big Blue...
Expanding Target Breach Shows Need for Highly Secure Payment Systems
The longer the revelations continue about the data breach at Target, the worse the news gets. The news was bad enough when the word...
NSA Leaks Continue to Pose Challenges for U.S. Firms
Last year's revelations about the extent to which the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped and collected data on other nations, foreign nationals and American...
RSA Show Boycott Spreads in Wake of NSA Allegations
The decision by several high-profile speakers to pull out of the upcoming RSA security conference in light of allegations that the information security technology...
eWEEK at 30: Salesforce Shows Enterprises How Cloud Computing Works
When someone says "the cloud," the first example people usually think of is Amazon. Likewise, when someone says "software as a service," the first...
Google Making It Easier to Connect via Email Between Gmail, Google+
Google has unveiled a new feature that will let users communicate via email more easily between their Gmail and Google+ accounts, but some critics...
AT&T, With Audi Deal, to Begin Connecting Cars to Mobile Share Plans
AT&T's President of Emerging Enterprises and Partnerships Organization Glenn Lurie announced on the opening day of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that AT&T...
Oracle DB, Middleware Now Deployable on Verizon Cloud
Oracle and Verizon, two old-school companies that have made significant moves into new-gen cloud-related products and services, revealed Jan. 10 that they are now...
Riverbed Receives $3 Billion Offer from Hedge Fund Firm
Riverbed Technology, a key player in the WAN optimization space and the subject of possible sales rumors over the last several months, could be...