Monthly Archives: June 2017
VC Meeker Observes Big Cloud Growth, Slowing Smartphone Shipments
VC Meeker Observes Big Cloud Growth, Slowing Smartphone Shipments
Renowned venture capitalist and securities analyst Mary Meeker released the 2017 edition of her widely read...
KDE Plasma 5.10 Puts Folders on Linux Desktop, Improves Search
KDE Plasma 5.10 Puts Folders on Linux Desktop, Improves Search
Thanks to its latest update—version 5.10—that debuted on May 30, the open-source KDE Plasma desktop...
Proposed ‘Hack Back’ Bill Would Help Companies Hunt Down Hackers
Today’s topics include a Georgia congressman looking to breathe new life into a controversial proposed hack back bill; Google adding new anti-phishing features to...
IBM Discovers QakBot Trojan Locking Out Active Directory Users
The QakBot financial Trojan has been active since at least 2011 stealing information from banks and end users around the world, but now the...
Salesforce Launches Sales Cloud Partner Relationship Management App
Salesforce has been getting more and more specialized with its clouds and its applications, so it was inevitable that it was going to launch...
Google Compute Engine Servers to Run Advanced Intel Skylake Processors
Starting this week customers of Google's Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service platform will be able to run their workloads on cloud servers based on Intel Corp's...
Microsoft Enlists eSIM, Windows 10 on ARM for ‘Always Connected PCs’
Full-fledged Windows on ARM-based hardware took a major step closer to reality this week. During the Computex 2017 tradeshow in Taipei, Microsoft officially announced...
How Pegasystems Aims to Solve Business-IT Communication Gap
Customer engagement software maker Pegasystems has launched a visual app-development tool that it says speeds up real-time collaboration among business and IT staff to...
KEYone Licensed BlackBerry Smartphone Released on Amazon, BestBuy
The latest BlackBerry-licensed smartphone, the KEYone, is now on sale in the United States after being launched by China's TCL Communications on May 31.TCL,...
Infor Completes Acquisition of Birst to Augment Its Cloud Services
Infor, which makes industry-specific business applications built for the cloud, revealed June 1 that it has closed its acquisition of Birst, a pioneer of...