Monthly Archives: August 2016
Digium D6x Series IP Phones Get Overhaul, Boast Full-Color Screens
Unified communications and telephony specialist Digium announced its newest IP desk phones, the D6x series, which includes the D60 value phone, the D62 Gigabit...
Walmart Needs $3.3 Billion Jet.com Buy to Jump-Start Web Sales
When Jet launched a year ago, part of the hype surrounding the new online shopping service was that it would be less expensive than...
Google Researchers Find PPI Affects 3X More Users Than Malware
Pay-per-install (PPI) software may be the new bane of the security world.Seventeen Google engineers, along with Damon McCoy, an assistant professor at the New...
Black Hat USA Shows Enterprises Fail to Learn Security 101 Lessons
LAS VEGAS—There was plenty of news last week during Black Hat USA about new cyber-threats, vulnerabilities and exploits. The good news is that security...
Google Cranks Up Enterprise Cloud Services With Orbitera Buy
It isn't all that often that Google, with its 58,000 employees and numerous partners and contractors around the world, has to go and find...
Toshiba Debuts Flashmatrix at 2016 Flash Memory Summit
Toshiba America Electronic Components, which has been getting more and more granular with its products by mapping them directly to new-gen use cases, on...
FireEye to Lay Off Hundreds, Blames Ransomware
Smaller ransomware incidents account for more attacks, outpacing large compromises involving hundreds of systems—a trend that bodes well for businesses but less well for...
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Leads Global Android Phone Sales in 2016
More Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones have been shipped globally in the first half of 2016 than any other Android smartphone, according to the...
CTO of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Steps Down
Chris Urmson, chief technology officer of Google parent Alphabet's autonomous car initiative, and one of its longest-serving engineers, has left the project apparently to...
Apple Acquiring Artificial Intelligence Vendor Turi: Report
Apple has acquired artificial intelligence and machine learning startup Turi for about $200 million, giving Apple more expertise in both technologies and adding to...