Monthly Archives: March 2015
FAA Permits Amazon to Test-Fly Delivery Drones With Usual Restrictions
Amazon has taken one important step toward realizing its corporate dream of automating same-day delivery of products to customers by air.That dream, as shown...
DARPA Project Uses Big Data to Find, Fix Software Security Flaws
A non-profit research lab working with Stanford University is developing a machine learning system that will analyze terabytes of software code to find security...
IBM Study Shows Mobile App Developers Neglecting Security
IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of a joint study that indicated that an alarming rate of mobile app developers are...
Amazon Gets FAA Permission to Begin Testing Drone Package Delivery
The FAA has granted permission to Amazon to conduct experiments with its proposed drone-based package delivery services that the online retailer has been eyeing...
Study Finds Companies Need to Monitor Use of Big-4 Cloud Platforms
Companies worried about sensitive data leaking out to the cloud should start focusing on four popular cloud-service ecosystems—those of Box, Dropbox, Google Apps and...
Huawei, DataCore Join Forces for Hyper-Converged System
A new alternative in the so-called hyper-converged data center system business is coming to the market as a result of a new international partnership...
EU Lawmaker Wants Closer Scrutiny of Google’s Business Practices
A European lawmaker has called on EU regulators to bring formal antitrust charges against Google after a document surfaced this week showing that the...
Qualys Expands Its SSL/TLS Security Scanning Service
Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) is widely used to secure data in motion on the Internet, but it isn't always configured properly or...
Microsoft Translator Now ‘Speaks’ 50 Languages
Microsoft Translator, the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker's cloud-based language translation service, welcomed three new languages this week."We are happy to announce that we have...
BI Provider Birst Banks $65 Million in VC Investment
Cloud-service business intelligence provider Birst revealed that it has added a $65 million infusion of venture capital funding. The investment comes amidst growing market...