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HP’s Meg Whitman: Having Second Thoughts On PCs?
HP said that it is seeking opportunities to sell underperforming assets in spite of “risk factors” that may hamper returns, the company stated in a regulatory filing last week. This is a big change from last year, when CEO Meg Whitman consolidated the firm’s struggling PC and printer groups, stipulating that selling is out of ...
Lookout’s 2013 Mobile Threat Report: What’s Putting You at Risk + How To Avoid It
It’s twice as likely you’ll get hacked in 2013, according to the latest paper from mobile cybersecurity firm Lookout. The report, entitled 2013 Mobile Threat Predictions, makes several forecasts about the state of security as it pertains to Android users and the market as a whole. The company says that a total of 18.4 million ...
Dell 2013: Must Solidify Enterprise, Mobile Strategies
Dell’s made several good (and bad) decisions in 2012, but which will power the PC maker into 2013? SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier, Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and networking guru Stu Miniman are on the showroom floor at Dell World 2012 in Austin, Texas, to bring us the latest from the company and its ecosystem. See ...
Is Android the Answer to Zynga’s Woes? Game Maker Pulls the Plug on 11 Facebook Games
Social game developer Zynga announced that 11 of its least popular titles are either barred new players or have been shut down entirely. The move is a part of a broader initiative orchestrated by founding CEO Mark Pincus to cut costs and and invest more in the company’s more profitable games. Here’s a compiled list ...
IE Users Targeted In New Zero-Day Exploit
Microsoft is trying to resolve a zero-day exploit that enabled hackers to target Windows users, the company disclosed over the weekend. The loophole only concerns users of IE 6, 7 and 8, and was apparently used to target individuals who visited the Council on Foreign Relations’ website, which harbored the malware. AlienVault security pro Jaime ...
Facebook Privacy Loophole Minor Compared to Other Fails
Facebook’s newest service lets you schedule a private greeting for your friends that will be delivered exactly on midnight, sparing you the choir of deciding on an acceptable timeframe before or after the New Year. The app is fairly straight-forward, but it appears that it launched with a rather inconvenient and undocumented feature. A blogger ...
Dell President Weighs in on Enterprise Clientele, Focus on Cloud Analytics
Steve Felice, Dell’s president and chief commercial enterprise, stopped by theCube during his company’s conference earlier this month to discuss the key aspects of his business: client trends, technology and services. He starts out with the former: customers want simplicity, and Dell is more than happy to deliver. Felice says that the focus here is ...
Where Sputnik Meets the Cloud, Open Source and Big Data
Barton George, Dell’s Director of Web Vertical, and cloud strategy director Michael Cote sat down in theCube at Dell World 2012 to discuss the hottest topics in the developer community. George kicks off the session by tackling Project Sputnik, a recently launched developer solution that he and his unit created. Sputnik is a thin, Dell ...
The Cloud Review: Netflix Outage, Backup and New Zealand
Earlier this year Netflix enthusiastically announced plans to migrate the bulk of its operations to Amazon Web Services, which it also uses to power its content streaming service. But its subscribers probably don’t share this optimism, or at least not anymore, in light of the borderline-cataclysmic ‘Christmas Eve outage of 2012’, which left millions of ...
HP Turns to DoJ, Hopes to Expedite Autonomy Controversy Resolution
On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard turned to the U.S Department of Justice in an effort to increase the odds that a $5 billion write down it’s pushing for the Autonomy deal will be green lighted by officials. HP acquired the UK-based maker of analytics for over $10 billion in 2011 as a part of a multi-billion dollar strategy ...