Monthly Archives: April 2015
Qualcomm Pressured by Major Investor to Split Company
Count chip maker Qualcomm among those tech companies under pressure from investors to split up their businesses.According to the Wall Street Journal, activist investor...
Internet of Things Security Issues Have Consumers Worried
Consumers remain about equally divided in their assessment of the pros and cons of the Internet of Things, according to a survey of 1903...
LaCie Doubles Rugged Thunderbolt SSD Capacity
Seagate Technology has doubled the capacity of its premium brand of LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt solid state drives (SSDs), which will now be available in...
Data Breaches Common in Health Care Industry
Health care organizations are rethinking their reliance on compliance requirements as the primary way to protect patient data, according to a Harris Poll survey...
China Unlimbers ‘Great Cannon’ to Block Web Content It Doesn’t Like
Starting at the end of March, two services on the Internet inexplicably found themselves under a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of such intensity...
Chinese-Backed Cyber-attacks Found in S.E. Asia, India, Report Says
A new report from security firm FireEye uncovers an Chinese government hacking group that allegedly has been active since 2005, targeting governments and journalists...
Google’s Android Wear App Could Be Coming to iPhones
Android smartwatches today can only be used in conjunction with an Android smartphone, but that could change in the future as Google continues to...
Niara Lands $20M in New Funding for Security Analytics
Security analytics vendor Niara has raised $20 million in a Series B round of financing, bringing its total funding to date up to $29.4...
U.S. Blocks Intel From Supplying Chips for Chinese Supercomputers
This was a busy news week for Intel and supercomputers.Around the same time that the Department of Energy announced that it had awarded a...
Rapid Technology Changes Making Enterprise IT Buying Decisions Harder
The last time I wrote a column for the pages of eWEEK.com, the iPhone had not been released yet and what we now know...