Monthly Archives: February 2017
Microsoft Cognitive Services Aids Speech Recognition App Development
Microsoft today announced the addition of the new Custom Speech Service to the company's Cognitive Services toolkit and collection of APIs that developers can...
Encryption for Data at Rest comes to Azure File Storage
Microsoft has kicked off a preview of its Storage Service Encryption (SSE) for Azure customers, enabling organizations to protect their cloud files with the...
Cisco Report: Mobile Phones Will Number 5.5 billion by 2021
Cisco Systems came out with its annual state of mobile networking report on Feb. 7, and there was no shortage of both expected and...
Federal Court Says Google Must Turn Over Data In Foreign Servers
A federal court in Philadelphia has ruled that Google must comply with an FBI demand for certain customer data that are currently stored on...
Google Shuts Down Short-Lived Hands Free Mobile Payment App
Today's topics include Google's decision to shut down its Hands Free mobile payment application, Microsoft’s addition of Evernote and other add-ins to its Outlook...
Wikileaks Releases Trove of CIA Documents, Cyber-Exploit Code
Wikileaks published a trove of more than 8,000 files on March 7, purportedly stolen from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and containing “several hundred...
Survey Weighs Importance of Passion for Innovation to Business Success
Survey Weighs Importance of Passion for Innovation to Business Success
IT consulting company Softchoice surveyed IT and business professionals to learn their views on the...
Skyhigh Networks Extends Cloud Access Security Broker to Custom Applications
Security vendor Skyhigh Networks debuted new Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities on Feb. 7, extending security protections to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms as well...
Lenovo Designs Yoga A12 Android Hybrid PC for Business Users
Lenovo Designs Yoga A12 Android Hybrid PC for Business Users
Lenovo is enticing enterprise users with the Yoga A12 two-in-one hybrid PC, which runs the...
Google Patches 58 Android Vulnerabilities in February Security Update
Google released its second Android patch update of 2017 on Feb. 6, providing users of the mobile operating system with patches for 58 different...