Chris Preimesberger

Silicon Valley Super Bowl Shows Off Cutting Edges in Sports Tech Super Bowl 50 brings out the latest technology—from the stadium’s more than 1,200 WiFi hotspots to virtual helmets of fans’ favorite teams. It’s First and Foremost, About Football Wilson Sports, which came out with a connected basketball a year ago, introduced a similar football, […]

Cloud storage and collaboration provider Box, which recently moved into a brand-new headquarters building in Redwood City, Calif. and now has more than 54,000 paying customers and 41 million users, introduced a new security product on Feb. 4: Box KeySafe. KeySafe is a cloud-based service that gives enterprises independent control over their encryption keys for […]

In the great wide world of information technology, Parallels may be the most cross-functional of all software makers. The company’s sole purpose for years has been to connect PC and Macintosh desktops across their inherent operating-system boundaries and enable people to create and share work from any computer to any other connected device. Parallels made […]

Nlyte Software, which last year created a new IT market segment (data center service management), disclosed to eWEEK Feb. 3 the acquisition of FieldView Solutions, which provides real-time event correlation, alarming and analytics software to the data center industry. Terms of the acquisition were not released. Based in San Mateo, Calif, Nlyte’s DCSM package combines […]

Fresh approaches to enterprise data security are always welcome, because bad actors always seem to find workarounds for the conventional ones. Startup PatternEx tasked itself with securing enterprise data by using a different approach: mimicking the intuition of human security analysts in real time and at scale using a new-gen artificial intelligence platform. If you […]

Key IT Takeaways From World Economic Forum’s Davos Conference A major theme of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the resulting technology disruptions. IT Disruption: Positive, Negative or Both? The result of new and unexpected innovation in IT can be positive (potential to raise global income levels […]

Yahoo made public its Q4 and year-end 2015 financial results February 2, and as had been reported a day earlier, the Web search and services provider also submitted a plan to cut back 15 percent of its workforce to scale back operations and focus on fewer businesses. As a result, about 1,700 of 11,000 full-time […]

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—So the government wants to help enterprises achieve totally tight data security. Fine. But is that the good news or the bad news? The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is a newly enacted U.S. federal law designed, in its own words, to “improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of […]

Nearly a month after the Yahoo board of directors told CEO Marissa Meyer in no uncertain terms that they want to see big changes — clearly meaning cutbacks — in the operation of their favorite Web services provider, the CEO and her staff are expected to make public a cost-cutting plan Feb. 2 as part […]

Veritone, an ambitious startup that wants to do for the spoken word what Google did for Web search, has launched a new division devoted specifically to political campaigns. This is all particularly timely on Feb. 1, the date of the Iowa caucuses and the official kickoff of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Newport Beach, Calif.-based […]

Following an often-contentious 10-year business relationship, Veritas Technologies on Feb. 1 officially declared its independence from Symantec and began operations as a newly independent, privately owned company. The legal separation day was actually Jan. 29, the last business day of the month. The company, most well-known for its NetBackup data backup software, is counting Feb. […]

Ironically, while the PC and tablet markets have suffered sales slowdowns the last two years, the nascent PC tablet market — PCs that can that also serve as tablets — is growing. This is because users are discovering versatility in a device is a valuable attribute. Microsoft’s Surface, thanks largely to the company’s massive marketing […]