Monthly Archives: October 2017
FCC Approves Alphabet’s Project Loon for Hurricane-Devastated Puerto Rico
First, it was the hams. In the terrifying aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the only communications available to residents came from the few ham radio...
#eWEEKchat Oct. 11: Trends in New-Gen Mobility, Apps, Devices
On Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 60th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, "Trends...
Oracle’s AWS Obsession Shows in Promised Cloud, Database, AI Offerings
SAN FRANCISCO—A few weeks before Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference kicked off, Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison promised news about a revolutionary “Autonomous Database.” He...
Google Identifies Russia-backed Ads on YouTube, Gmail
Facebook and Google rake in more advertising revenue than the rest of the media world combined. Thus it follows that if one of them--Facebook--was...
Microsoft Call on Researchers to Use AI to Save Earth’s Oceans
AI for Earth, a program that offers access to Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and cloud resources to researchers and organizations that are addressing...
Forrester Research Discloses Limited Website Data Breach
At 6:17 ET PM on Oct.6, Forrester Research publicly admitted that it was the victim of a cyber-attack. According to the firm, the attack...
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile OS Is on Life Support
Microsoft has finally decided to pull the plug on Windows 10 Mobile, according to a couple of tweets from Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president...
How Enterprises Can Reduce Employees’ Urge to Use Shadow IT
How Enterprises Can Reduce Employees' Urge to Use Shadow IT
Enterprises consider content security as a high priority. However, unless content collaboration tools are easy...
Chef Habitat Builder Debuts for Container Cloud-Native App Deployments
DevOps vendor Chef announced the launch of its Habitat Builder software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering on Oct. 9, providing new automation capabilities for developers who work...
Why Oath Is Preparing to Pull Plug on Obsolete AOL Instant Messenger
Why Oath Is Preparing to Pull Plug on Obsolete AOL Instant Messenger
In a move that signals the end of an era, Oath, the Verizon-owned...