Monthly Archives: November 2016
Akamai Reports DDoS Attacks Hit New Heights in 2016 Third Quarter
Akamai Reports DDoS Attacks Hit New Heights in 2016 Third Quarter
Akamai's third quarter State of the Internet Security report details the unrelenting increase in...
GE Unveils a Ton of new Predix Products for Industrial IoT
GE, spending a ton of marketing dollars in repositioning itself as a new-gen industrial IoT infrastructure provider, made a series of announcements Nov. 15...
Factors You Need to Consider When Replacing Aging Laptops
This is one of those problems that presents itself to most companies every year. What to do about laptop computers that are reaching the...
Millennials Championing Increased Use of Chatbots in Retail
Online shoppers would much rather interact with a chatbot and go through a purchase process without talking to a human being—unless it's absolutely necessary.We...
Microsoft Outlook Customer Manager Helps SMBs Track Tasks, Contacts
Microsoft today took the wraps off Outlook Customer Manager, a new software tool for Office 365 small business customers that enables them to keep...
Revamped Google Play Music to Use Machine Learning to Suggest Songs
Google uses machine-learning technologies in multiple applications including Translate, Photos and Inbox by Gmail. Starting this week, the company's Google Play Music streaming service...
Microsoft Data Centers Bet Big on Wind Power
Microsoft's quest to build a "responsible cloud" took a gusty turn today.
Currently, 44 percent of electricity consumed by Microsoft's cloud data centers comes from...
SEC Filing Indicates Yahoo Was Aware of Massive Data Breach in 2014
Today's topics include the new Security and Exchange Commission's filing that suggests that Yahoo may have known about the massive data breach two years...
Salesforce Survey Shows Customer Experience Now Job No. 1
Once upon a time, sales were simply a matter of putting the best product out there and allowing it to sell itself. Selling is...
Kaspersky Alleges Microsoft’s Windows Defender Is Anti-Competitive
Eugene Kaspersky, founder of security vendor Kaspersky Lab isn't happy with Microsoft's business practices and he wants the whole world to know about it....