Monthly Archives: January 2015
Dropbox London Office Courts Customers and Developers
By Steve McCaskillDropbox says opening an office in London will allow it to better serve its customers in the U.K. and tap into the...
Business Users Prefer Apple Devices Over Android
Apple grabbed 68 percent of all devices newly activated in 2014 on Intermedia’s business email cloud, while Android and Windows Phone lagged behind in...
SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby Resigns From IBM
Lance Crosby, founder and CEO of IBM’s SoftLayer unit, has resigned from IBM.SoftLayer COO Francisco Romero announced the news internally on January 23. Sources...
Apple Posts Record $74.6B Revenue, Record $18B Profit in Q1 2015
Apple just had its best-ever financial quarter, posting $74.6 billion in revenue and $18 billion in net profits for the first fiscal quarter of...
Spy Tool Noted in Leaked NSA Documents Linked to Regin Malware
Malware code reportedly leaked from the National Security Agency has been linked to a sophisticated cyber-attack framework, known as Regin, which had previously been...
Apache Spark Developer Adoption on the Rise
Results of a new survey indicate that the Apache Spark big data processing engine is gaining traction with a growing number of developers.Typesafe, the...
Google Launching Gigabit Internet Services in 18 More Cities
Spurred by what it described as overwhelming consumer enthusiasm, Google on Jan. 27 said it would soon begin rolling out its Google Fiber gigabit...
Twitter Expands by Enabling Private Chatrooms, Video Editing
Twitter, which went public 14 months ago and now is feeling the pressure to get its finances into the black after spending its lifetime...
Apple OS X 10.10.2 Bashes Bugs
Apple released its OS X 10.10.2 update on Jan. 27, providing users with fixes for 54 identified Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Among the...
Verizon Says It Won’t Match T-Mobile, AT&T Data Rollover Moves
Monthly mobile data rollovers for Verizon Wireless customers isn't going to happen, according to the company, even though rivals T-Mobile and AT&T have recently...