Monthly Archives: May 2018
Walmart Buys Flipkart for $16B to Boost E-Commerce Presence in India
Today’s topics include Walmart outbidding Amazon to acquire India’s Flipkart for $16 billion, and Senate Democrats introducing a resolution to reverse the FCC net...
Chili’s Discloses Data Breach Exposing Payment Card Information
Restaurant chain Chili's is the latest retailer to report a data breach involving point of sale (PoS) security.Brinker International, which operates over 1,600 Chili's...
Google Duplex IVR Demonstrates AI Advances, Raises Security Worries
Google Duplex IVR Demonstrates AI Advances, Raises Security Worries
At its annual I/O developers conference on May 8, Google unveiled a new artificial intelligence system...
How to Navigate the Fragmented Data Landscape on AWS
How to Navigate the Fragmented Data Landscape on AWS
Since launching in early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has grown into an expansive range of...
Efail Email Encryption Vulnerabilities Expose OpenPGP Users to Risk
Security researchers on May 14 announced a new set of vulnerabilities—dubbed Efail—in the widely deployed S/MIME and OpenPGP email encryption technologies.In a 21-page academic paper,...
Google Duplex AI Can Boost Customer Satisfaction, Ease Interaction
If you listen to the examples of Google phone calls to a restaurant and a hair salon that are posted on the Google AI...
Google Offers Managed Redis Service With Cloud Memorystore
A fully managed in-memory data store service for the Redis high-availability cloud data service that Google first announced in April is now accessible in...
Ivanti Software Review
Company description: Founded as LANDESK in 1985, privately held Ivanti is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah and headed by CEO Steve Daly. Ivanti unifies...
New Real-Time Stream Processing Platform Powers Live Data Apps
Data Artisans, the Berlin, Germany and San Francisco-based maker of Flink, has announced the general availability of dA Platform, which it describes as the...
Microsoft Mixed Reality Hits the Factory Floor With New Apps
Microsoft is hoping to make HoloLens a part of the factory floor worker's toolkit with two new mixed-reality apps. Mixed reality is Microsoft's take...