Chris Preimesberger

Voxeet, a startup whose mission is to eradicate conference calls as we know them and replace them with clear, clean voice transmissions on any device, is expanding its network globally. The Sausalito, Calif.-based company, which on April 6 relaunched v4.0 of its free-to-use cloud app, told eWEEK that it turned on its international service the […]

Trade secrets are now on a fast track toward a federal identity that would put them on par in the legal world with patents, trademarks and copyrights. In what could become a major step toward deterring cyber-crime, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill April 4 to empower corporate espionage victims to seek damages for […]

Facebook took a hard swipe at competitor YouTube April 6 by launching several new features for its Facebook Live function, all of which make it easier for mobile users to create, locate and share live videos to groups of people. The most important new function the world’s largest social network rolled out is the ability […]

Dell’s acquisition of EMC, announced last October, is far from completed, but the two IT giants are swiftly moving ahead in product development as if they are already one company. For example, Dell unloaded a ton of product news April 5 involving both companies. In one day, the tech giant announced: –a new hyperconverged infrastructure […]

Toyota and minority equity partner Microsoft revealed April 4 that they will go in together to launch a new company, Toyota Connected, to focus on developing mobile software and services for connected vehicles. Toyota also said the new company, to be located in Plano, Texas, will serve as a data science hub for its global […]

Brocade Communications Systems made a major move to expand its market reach April 4 by agreeing to spend $1.2 billion for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based neighbor Ruckus Wireless, a maker of smart WiFi networking equipment for enterprises and service providers. The purchase price is net of cash and liquid assets owned by Ruckus, which amounts to approximately […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Data-centric security is one of the hot buttons of IT right now. This is the kind of encryption security that surrounds a data file and follows it through the Internet, all its networking and myriad servers until it rests in a storage bank. We had a firsthand taste of how popular this subject […]

10 Ways Administrators Can Harden Active Directory Security A highly secured Active Directory environment can help prevent attacks and protect critical data. This slide show looks at how to harden Active Directory security. User Accounts With Non-Expiring Passwords When users are not forced to change their password, their account is left vulnerable to attack. Changing […]

Despite those big, awkward-looking pieces of headgear that users need to experience them, virtual reality and its cousin, augmented reality, are well into the preparation stage for mainstream usage during the next few years. Where television, movies and personal computers have taken their users in years past, so will these new “realities” — only in […]

Today, March 31, is World Backup Day, which reminds all of us that we need to back up all our personal and business-related documents, photos, videos—anything else digital that we value. Those of us who have lost important files in the past know what a pain it is—and how much valuable time it takes—to re-create […]

Almost exactly a year after 39 Silicon Valley leaders joined together to curtail their business in the state of Indiana after its legislature and governor enacted a law enabling discrimination against LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) citizens based on faith beliefs, a second and larger group of business leaders applied the same pressure March […]

Nine App Development Trends That Are Defining the State of Mobility The interest in emerging tech continues to grow, a recent mobile trend report shows, with automation being a key market for developers. Back-End Data: The New Mobile Dev Problem Getting access to mobile-optimized back-end data is becoming the single greatest challenge to building apps, […]