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This Week in Cybersecurity: From the Pentagon to HBGray
This past week has seen a lot of security news and developments, even beyond RSA 2011. However, our first update comes straight from the heart of the conference – today’s cyberwar keynote panel. The panel, which included former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Mike McConnell and security author Bruce Schneier discussed multiple topics, ...
Visualize This: Big Data’s Got Legs!
Google’s opening up its Public Data Explorer data visualization tool today, harping on a growing trend around data visualization and the utilization of large scale data markets. Google’s Explorer currently supports 27 datasets and more than 300 metrics including government debt levels, internet speed statistics and so on, and is now available for individuals to ...
Indian Government Gains “Back Door” Access to Corporate BlackBerry E-Mails
And the BlackBerry saga lives on in international territories. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Indian federal home ministry is in talks with the country’s BlackBerry-supporting telecom service providers to give the government access to corporate emails sent and received via RIM’S BB devices. This latest move comes after a fairly long episode involving ...
Cisco Rethinks Enterprise 2.0 Security at RSA 2011
Cisco’s Security Technology Business Unit VP and general manager Tom Gillis had a keynote yesterday in the RSA conference, where he discussed how “it’s time to rethink the entire system.” He noted this in context to today’s increased endpoint customization and virtualization usage, which, according to him, requires totally new security models. He highlighted how ...
Online Users Search for Health Information: Big Data to the Rescue
One of the greatest benefits to current big data trends is how it can help us all become healthier individuals. When it comes to healthcare, managing and sharing big data makes it easier for us to find the information we need, and also strives to make healthcare institutions more efficient in their patient care and evaluation methods. ...
RSA 2011: The Private Sector Armors Up, Adresses Cloud Security
This year’s RSA conference brought with it two major news breaks concerning IT and the cloud as a whole, starting with the military and deputy secretary of defense William Lynn. CNET notes that Lynn proposed in his keynote that the military should extend its technological shields, what the secretary referred to as “active defenses,” ...
MapQuest Takes on Android, but Can it Beat Google Maps?
The AOL-owned MapQuest today launched a new and free Android app, finally extending its support beyond iOS. The app features everything the iPhone version does, with the exception of a couple new features, all of which represent a serious development case for MapQuest. That includes OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, which extends the mobile MapQuest database to ...
The Publishing Revolution: Google, Apple Now Leading the Charge
The publishing industry spurred a lot of news this week, with updates and developments affecting its every major aspect. Google and Apple seem to have taken charge of the digital prospect of publishing, rolling out a few updates of their own this week. But let’s take a brief step back and consider some other players ...
Appcelerator and Engine Yard Partner Up for Joint Mobile Cloud Solution
Yesterday web-based application development solution Appcelerator and Ruby on Rails development and deployment platform Engine Yard announced a partnership to deliver a new solution, combining joint platform benefits. The Appcelerator Platinum-Engine Yard hybrid offering will aim to simplify the deployment of web-scale, cross-platform mobile Rails applications, following the trend HTML5 kick started, but from a ...
Android Ice Cream (Sandwich) to Combine Honeycomb and Gingerbread
Google CEO Eric Schmidt hit the podium at the Mobile World Congress conference, and announced the next version of Android. Schmidt only hinted about the name of the next generation Android saying it will “start with an I [and] be named after a dessert”, he did detail about the technical aspect. Android Ice Cream Sandwitch, ...