Monthly Archives: October 2017
Google Patches Critical Dnsmasq Flaws That Could Impact Android Phones
Today’s topics include Google patching critical flaws in Dnsmasq software packages; Congress grilling former Equifax CEO Richard Smith about the company’s data breach; a...
Uber Says It’s Removing Secret Screen-Viewing Access to iOS Devices
Uber’s seemingly endless quest to know (and potentially control) everything it could about the users of the company’s app, turns out to have had...
Datameer Shows New Visualizer for Interactive Exploration of Big Data
Datameer, which made its reputation as the first big data platform purpose-built for Hadoop batch processing, is expanding its horizons into new territory. The...
ZTE to Launch Folding Smartphone Ahead of Apple, Samsung: Reports
China's ZTE could soon be launching a folding smartphone that splits its screen into two parts, but when unfolded creates what looks like a...
Microsoft TechSpark Tackles Skills Gap, Digital Divide in Rural Areas
Microsoft is combining philanthropy, educational outreach and TV white spaces technology to connect remote, non-wired areas, with the goal of enabling them to participate more fully...
Microsoft Adds Java Support to Azure Functions Serverless Platform
Java developers can now use Azure Functions, Microsoft's serverless computing platform, to build and deploy applications on the Redmond, Wash. software marker's cloud.Serverless computing...
Multi-Layered Defenses Needed to Improve Cyber-Security, FBI Says
Jeffrey Tricoli, first joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1998 and has first hand experience seeing how cyber-crime and hackers have evolved...
Software Industry Growth Far Outpaces U.S. Economy, Hits $1.14 Trillion
Software may actually be eating the world, as inventor/entrepreneur Marc Andreessen famously said, but it’s also elbowing its way into more prominence within the...
Google Debuts New Cloud System Options for High-Performance Workloads
Enterprises running capacity-hogging, memory-intensive workloads on Google's cloud platform now have new high-performance system options for running them.Google on Oct. 5 introduced three new...
Google Introduces New Pixel Phones, Pixelbook, Google Home Devices
Today’s topics include Google’s launch of its Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 2 smartphones; the launch of Oracle’s Blockchain Cloud Service; Google’s addition of...