Monthly Archives: December 2016
Oracle Q2 Earnings Mixed, co-CEO Joins Trump Transition Team
Now that Oracle has one of its highest-ranking executives doing duty as a member of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, one wonders how a...
Google Adds New Option for Managing iOS Mobile Device acces to G-Suite Apps
Administrators in charge of Google's G Suite range of productivity applications now have a new way of managing personally-owned iOS devices in the enterprise.Google...
Microsoft to Build ‘World Graph’ IoT Index With TomTom and HERE
Microsoft wants to build a new "world graph," an index of devices and objects, their locations, and how they are interconnected. Using the graph,...
Sprint Introduces HPUE Wireless Range-Extending Technology
Today's topics include Sprint’s new High Performance User Equipment wireless technology, Microsoft and Harman Kardon’s partnership to develop a Cortana-based intelligent home assistant, IBM’s...
How IBM, BMW Will Use Watson to Design Cars of the Future
A couple of companies with pretty well-known three-letter names, BMW and IBM, revealed Dec. 15 that they are working together in utilizing Watson cognitive...
How Waymo Is Working to Bring Driverless Car to the World’s Highways
How Waymo Is Working to Bring Driverless Car to the World's Highways
Google's driverless car technology development program has been spun off into independent company...
Uber’s Self-Driving Car Service Has Come a Long Way Remarkably Fast
The move by Uber to launch a fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco is not unexpected. After all, Uber is based in San...
Amit Yoran Leaving RSA Security to Become Tenable CEO
Tenable Network Security announced on December 15 that it has found its new leader, revealing that Amit Yoran will become the company's CEO effective...
Skype for Mac Backdoor Allowed Access to Calls, Messages for Years
Microsoft quietly patched the Mac OS X client for Skype in October, closing a backdoor that could have existed for as long as a...
Drone ID Brings SSL/TLS Certificates to IoT Security
When a drone flies overhead, how can its owner be identified? That's a question that is not easily answered today, but it might be...