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Today’s topics include Amazon Web Services’ cloud business continuing to grow, and Google rolling out a Kubernetes cloud service catalog and cloud service broker. Amazon Web Services on April 26 reported first-quarter 2018 revenue of $5.4 billion, an impressive 49 percent year-over-year revenue growth in the public cloud. For comparison, when Amazon began to break […]

Today’s topics include T-Mobile and Sprint merging to create the second largest U.S. carrier, and Microsoft releasing the Windows 10 Spring 2018 Creators Update. Mobile carriers T-Mobile and Sprint announced on April 29 their plans to merge in a $26 billion all-stock deal that would create the second largest U.S. wireless carrier. The combined company […]

On April 16, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that Chinese technology company ZTE can no longer buy U.S. products including electronic components and software to build its smartphone and networking products. The ban was imposed because ZTE violated a consent agreement by selling prohibited items to Iran and North Korea.  ZTE strongly objected to […]

Today’s topics include researchers finding that Amazon Alexa can be hacked to record users and Google has redesigned Gmail with new security and productivity features. On April 25, security firm Checkmarx publicly disclosed that it has found that a malicious developer can trick Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant technology to record everything a user says. It’s […]

Today’s topics include Saxo Bank moving its entire fintech stack to Microsoft’s cloud, and Google discontinuing its Allo chat app to focus on RCS messaging.  Microsoft and Saxo Bank, a Denmark-based bank and financial technology services provider, announced a strategic partnership on April 24 where Saxo Bank will move its entire technology stack to Microsoft’s […]

Today’s topics include Dell prioritizing AI and security in its latest mobile and desktop PCs, and Microsoft expanding its industrial IoT cloud portfolio. Dell is building out its portfolio of mobile and desktop commercial PCs to streamline complex modern workloads like artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, and analytics, and is also expanding […]

Today’s topics include Cisco merging Spark into WebEx for streamlined collaboration, and Cloud Foundry stepping up as a de facto standard for cloud-native development. Cisco Systems announced last week that it is merging its Spark and WebEx collaboration services to create a single offering. The merging of the two platforms means that users will have […]

Today’s topics include a discussion between former U.S. and Israeli intelligence chiefs on cyber-security at the RSA Conference, and Microsoft welcoming Red Hat Linux clusters to Azure Service Fabric. Former National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and former commander of Israel’s 8200 Intelligence Unit Nadav Zafrir hosted a session on April 20 at the […]

Today’s topics include the U.S. and U.K. governments warning of increasing Russian infrastructure attacks, and Microsoft Windows Defender fighting phishing on Google Chrome. In the first joint statement of its kind, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team within the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Centre within the UK’s General Communications Headquarters […]

Today’s topics include Sony launching its Xperia XZ2 Premium smartphone; and Microsoft, RSA and Facebook among 33 tech companies signing the Cybersecurity Tech Accord. Less than a week after starting to take preorders for its Xperia XZ2 and Xperia XZ2 Compact smartphones, Sony has launched the Xperia XZ2 Premium. The premium handset boasts a larger […]