Monthly Archives: September 2016
Extreme CEO: Zebra Deal Will Grow Vendor’s WLAN Business
Ed Meyercord knew that Extreme Networks needed to bulk up its wireless LAN capabilities. The company was built on switches for data center and...
DDoS Attacks Heading Toward 1-Terabit Record
This past week, the largest-ever internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were reported, targeting popular security blogger Brian Krebs and internet service provider OVH in...
Big-Data Analytics Plays Big Role in 2016 Election Campaigns
SAN FRANCISCO—Assessing the voting public's mood swings, likes and dislikes to win an election has been a top-line task for political campaigns in the...
Scientists Demonstrate Long Distance Quantum Communication
The theory of quantum entanglement has been around for over half a century, but until recently this very strange property of some subatomic particles...
RAND Insurance Payout Study Hints at Smaller Average Data Breaches
Companies that spend little on security workers and technologies may not be acting irresponsibly, but making rational choices, because the cost of the average...
Streaming Music Revenue Up 57% in U.S. in First Half of 2016
Paid subscription revenue for streaming music is up 57 percent in the first half of 2016 in the United States compared with a year...
Microsoft’s Project Bletchley Speeds Consortium Blockchain Setups
Project Bletchley, the Ethereum-based consortium blockchain technology that Microsoft announced back in June, is now available, the company said this week.Bletchley v1 slashes the...
Google Rolls Out Allo Messaging App to Privacy Concerns
Google this week released its new messaging application Allo as expected and almost immediately found itself under fire for allegedly backing off a commitment...
Salesforce Reportedly Considering Acquiring Twitter
Salesforce.com and Twitter—two companies that have banked hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital over the years but have yet to show any...
BlackBerry Offers up to $250 Off Priv, Passport Smartphones
BlackBerry has announced a $250 discount on the regular prices of its Passport smartphones and $224 off its Priv handsets through Oct. 19 in...