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Skype 6.6, released this week for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, helps multi-taskers manage their audio and video calls a little better. In a Nov. 23 blog post, Microsoft announced that its Skype developers have “made it easier for you to get back to an active Skype audio or video call from your instant messages or […]

Today’s topics include a new mobile plan from Sprint, details on Apple’s new music streaming service, a change in Microsoft’s Dynamics product development teams and more on the fallout from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management data breach. Sprint rolled out a new mobile phone plan, called All-In, which gives customers one monthly $80 price […]

Today’s topics include Samsung’s IoT Push with Artik Development Boards, Verizon’s AOL Acquisition, Verizon Wireless and Sprint’s FCC settlement, and new design and analytics capabilities for IBM’s marketing cloud. Samsung has been building up its capabilities around the burgeoning Internet of things, buying IoT startup SmartThings in 2014 and promising to invest $100 million in […]

Application networking specialist A10 Networks announced ACOS 4.0 with Harmony, an architecture that enables organizations to consolidate application networking and security on a unified platform and deploy on-demand services for applications in different cloud consumption models. Using Harmony, developers can integrate intelligent application networking services more easily with the company’s Thunder Series Application Delivery Controllers […]

Feb. 5 at 10:30am PST we discussed “Enterprise Apps, the Cloud and Mobility”: three topics of great interest to enterprises. There are more choices and decisions to make than ever when it comes to enterprise CIOs, CDOs (chief data officers), data center managers and their IT applications. To cloud, or not to cloud? Private, public-only […]

Hewlett-Packard’s new smartwatches brings together the style of fashion designer Michael Bastian and the electronics expertise of HP in a device that will be available for sale starting Nov. 7. The new smartwatch, called the MB Chronowing, is now featured on a Web page created by online luxury goods seller Gilt.com that is counting down […]

Targeted attacks are on the rise and companies that don’t take the necessary steps to secure their IT infrastructure could incur a massive financial blow, according to a Kaspersky Lab and B2B International survey. The study found 94 percent of organizations encountered at least one cyber-security incident in the past 12 months, and of these […]

The global online video platform (OVP) market is set to double by 2019 as video rapidly becomes a critical means of stakeholder communication and collaboration for enterprises across the globe, according to a report from research firm Frost & Sullivan. An OVP is a fee-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) online content solution that enables content owners to […]

Security firm Codenomicon has found a new Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) flaw in the GnuTLS open-source cryptographic library. Codenomicon rose to notoriety in April as the security firm that found and branded the Heartbleed flaw in the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library. GnuTLS is not as widely deployed as OpenSSL, but it is part of many […]

Microsoft is coming off a hectic month in delivering “customer-requested features” to the company’s cloud-enabled Office 365 productivity software suite. In a Nov. 1 blog post, Office 365 technical product manager Andy O’Donald announced that now everyone can “join Lync mobile meetings, even those without Office 365 accounts.” He added that administrators “can now purchase […]

While some organizations are using public cloud services for specific applications such as Sales Force Automation, most organizations will start their move to the cloud with a private cloud effort. Over time, they will migrate more and more of their critical applications to public cloud services. Thus, for the foreseeable future, the majority of IT […]

Sustained by complexity and explosive growth, the network beast has become ever harder to tame. Add to that condition the shortage of qualified network experts and it becomes easy to see that maintaining enterprise networks has become an almost impossible task without numerous hardware and software tools to monitor and troubleshoot network performance. But now […]