Monthly Archives: October 2016
DOD Launching Expanded Hack the Pentagon Bug Bounty Program
The Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program—which Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced last March at the RSA security conference—lasted several weeks, but it was...
Massive Cyber-attack Shows Risk of Poor Security on Network Nodes
The massive distributed denial-of-service attack that took out many popular internet services on Oct. 21 was so effective because it targeted part of the...
Ektra Smartphone Builds on Kodak’s Photographic History
Kodak has unveiled its first-ever smartphone, the Kodak Ektra, which sports a retro camera-like design and a 21-megapixel fast-focus main rear camera that the...
AT&T Aiming to Buy Time Warner: Reports
AT&T and Time Warner are in the thick of talks about a possible merger. Meanwhile, Apple, which had expressed similar interest in Time Warner...
Verizon Q3 Wireless Customer Net Adds Fall 57%
Verizon's net postpaid wireless customer adds in the third quarter of 2016 fell 65.7 percent to 442,000 from a year prior when it added...
Skype Learns New Languages, Opens Door to More Microsoft Services
Microsoft has added six new Austronesian languages to its text translation API, the company announced this week.Now, users of the Skype desktop apps for...
How Microsoft Is Luring Enterprises to Its Cloud
Microsoft posted strong first-quarter fiscal 2017 results Oct. 20, once again crediting its cloud computing portfolio for lifting the Redmond, Wash., software maker's fortunes.Not...
SDN Standards Groups ONF, ON.Lab to Merge
Two key players in the open-standards efforts around network virtualization will merge next year, bringing some consolidation to an area where over the past...
Rivals Red Hat, Mirantis Announce New OpenStack Partnerships
Red Hat and Mirantis both announced large agreements this week that bring their respective OpenStack technologies to carrier partners. The news comes ahead of...
Sonatype Maps the JavaScript Genome for DevOps
Sonatype, a provider of software supply-chain automation solutions, claims to have mapped the JavaScript genome to help organizations build better software in the fast-paced...