Monthly Archives: June 2015
A Look at Apple’s Many Competitive Feuds at Home and Abroad
A Look at Apple's Many Competitive Feuds at Home and Abroad
By Don Reisinger
Google: Arguably Apple's Biggest Foe
Google is Apple's biggest concern on several fronts....
Consumers Losing Faith in Account Passwords
Seventy percent of consumers lack a high degree of confidence that their passwords can adequately protect their online accounts, and 72 percent are in...
Terbium Labs Launches Matchlight Data Intelligence Platform
Terbium Labs announced Matchlight, an intelligence system used to find compromised or stolen data as soon as it appears on the Dark Web—a hidden...
Google ‘My Account’ Hub Aims to Boost User Control Over Personal Data
Google’s extensive data collection and user tracking practices have often put it at odds with the privacy community in recent years.So the company’s launch...
Wearables Market Tops 11 Million in First Quarter
The wearable device market recorded its eighth consecutive quarter of steady growth in the first quarter of the year, with vendors shipping a total...
Microsoft Unveils Toshiba IoT Partnership, Win 10 Devices at Computex
Windows 10 won't ship until July 29, but the public can already get a glimpse of the PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s that will run...
Skype Rushes Update to Fix HTTP Crash Bug
Microsoft issued an emergency patch on June 3, acknowledging reports that a simple eight-character string could crash the program on certain platforms.On June 2,...
After Freedom Act Vote Much Must Be Done to Restore Data Privacy
Privacy advocates everywhere are celebrating. The passage of the USA Freedom Act by the Senate and the signing by the President mean that there...
NetApp Replaces CEO Georgens with EVP George Kurian
NetApp, which has been spinning its wheels to gain storage IT market share for the past couple of years, made some changes at the...
Huawei Wants to Be America’s Next Big Smartphone Company
NEW YORK—At a press gala here for its new $249 unlocked P8 Lite smartphone for U.S. consumers, Zhiqiang Xu, the president of Huawei Device...