Monthly Archives: July 2015
Businesses Are Unprepared for a Data Breach
Despite major breaches at iconic organizations such as Sony and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management making headlines, businesses are still woefully unprepared for...
Americans Anxious About Personal Financial Security
More than three-quarters (77 percent) of consumers are concerned with their financial information or social security number (SSN) being stolen or compromised, higher than...
Microsoft’s Cortana Expands Into Enterprise Business Analytics
During the Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, Fla., today, Microsoft announced Cortana Analytics Suite, a set of Azure-backed services for businesses seeking to...
Microsoft Starts Singing the Windows 10 Siren Song
Go to the Microsoft Website starting on July 13, and the message is clear. Upgrade time is near, and the company wants you to...
TrapX Technology Uses Deception to Ensnare Attackers
The idea of using a honeypot, a deliberately attractive and vulnerable server as a way to trap attackers, is not new, but it's a...
Home Depot, Workday, Mint Execs Offer Tips on Building Hit Mobile Apps
SAN FRANCISCO—Software developers and enterprises of all kinds want to reach the growing number of mobile users who have ditched the desktop in favor...
AWS to Build Wind Farm to Power Data Center, Neighborhoods
IT companies are getting creative with the way they position, build and power their data centers. Facebook, for example, built two data centers in...
Huawei Buys SDN Business of Irish Firm Amartus
Huawei Technologies is bolstering its network virtualization ambitions by buying the software-defined networking business of Irish software developer Amartus.Huawei officials announced the deal July...
Apple Takes in Lion’s Share of Global Smartphone Market Profits
Apple's iPhones helped the company bring in 92 percent of the first-quarter profits of the eight largest vendors in the global smartphone marketplace, leaving...
Two Drug Firms Experiment With Use of Apple’s ResearchKit
Two major pharmaceutical companies are using Apple's ResearchKit open-source project in experiments aimed at helping medical researchers gain more data and fresh insights as...