Monthly Archives: February 2016
SDN in Enterprise Moving Past the Hype, Survey Finds
Software-defined networking and other network virtualization technologies continue to move beyond the hype phase as more end users launch deployments and more vendors roll...
Health Care Tech Companies See Rise in Funding
Funding for on-demand health care companies—those providing location-based offerings with nearly real-time and 24/7 services—will quadruple in the coming years, from $250 million to...
Payment Security Issues Worry Retailers
Payments security is a core area of concern for retailers, according to a survey of 200 retail industry professionals, which was conducted by electronics...
VoltDB Adds Geospatial Query Support to Fast Data Platform
VoltDB announced the availability of its newest release, VoltDB v6.0, a combination of an operational database with data ingest/export that now includes geo-spatial support.Version...
Spotting Insecure Websites Requires More Than Google’s Red X
As you have probably heard by now, Google is apparently planning to change the way it flags websites according to their perceived security level.To...
UC Berkeley Students Sue Google for Scanning Emails Without Consent
Four students from the University of California at Berkeley have sued Google for allegedly scanning their Gmail emails without obtaining prior permission.The lawsuit, filed...
Yahoo Reportedly to Explain Cost-Cutting Plan on Earnings Call
Nearly a month after the Yahoo board of directors told CEO Marissa Meyer in no uncertain terms that they want to see big changes...
NSA Gives Advice on Defending Against Nation-State Attackers
Among the cache of documents leaked by U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden were files containing information on the agency's offensive operations,...
Veritone Politics Captures New Data for Campaign Strategists
Veritone, an ambitious startup that wants to do for the spoken word what Google did for Web search, has launched a new division devoted...
Xerox Decides to Split Into Separate Document, BPO Operations
Today's topics include the announcement of Xerox splitting into two companies, Google’s Chrome browser may soon mark HTTP sites unsafe, Microsoft has released Cordova...