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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 ...
Tech in 2012: Microsoft Disrupts BYOD, Lenovo Has the Right Mobile/PC Strategy
SiliconAngle news editor Kristen Nicole wraps up her three-part recap on the top consumer trends in 2012 with a discussion about mobile, including notable product launches and other big plays by leading vendors (full video below). Kristen tackles Microsoft Surface first. She says that while the tablet may not have lived up to the more ...
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2013: From Legislature to Attacks
It seems cyberattacks and hacktivists ruled the headlines in 2012, and for good reason. Now the government’s getting involved, trying to determine the best way to handle digital threats. SiliconAngle contributing editor John Cassaretto made an appearance on our NewsDesk program to cover the state of Cybersecurity in the government, where lawmakers are debating new ...
Big Data Predictions for 2013: More Social Service, Government Opportunities
Big Data’s been an unavoidable buzz word in 2012, but what will 2013 bring? Jeff Kelly concludes his three-part session on the SiliconAngle Newsdesk with a brief summary of what we’ve seen so far this year, and what we can expect in the next 12 months. Kelly observes that more and more sectors and industries ...