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Google Sells Off Motorola Home, Takes Liability for TiVo Lawsuit
Motorola Home, the mobile broadband division of the mobile device maker, was sold off to Arris yesterday for over two billion dollars in cash and stock. The buy is a big win for the Suwanee, Georgia-based company, which specializes in designing solutions for cable companies – but there is a catch. As it turns out, ...
A Year of Boardroom Shuffles for Twitter. Beefing Up for an IPO?
Twitter appointed Mike Gupta as its new chief financial officer this week, replacing former CFO and newly promoted COO Ali Rowghani. The changes were announced via a tweet from chief executive Dick Costolo, who himself served as the company’s chief operating officer in its earlier stages. AllThingsD provided some background on Rowghani, who worked at ...
McAfee Lists Top Security Risks for Holiday Season, Including Smarter Hackers
McAfee Labs compiled a list of security considerations for the 2012 holiday season, including new threats that have only become commonplace in the past few quarters. The security firm’s research team counted 43.4 million suspect websites during the third quarter of 2012, 20 percent more than the number they identified three months earlier. McAfee considers ...
Pentaho Puts the Holiday Spirit Into Analytics with “12 Days of Visualization”
Pentaho’s latest side-project is putting the holiday spirit into open-source analytics. The BI software maker teamed up with Portuguese chart maker Webdetails to release one free visualization add-on a day from December 17 through the 7th of January. The three visualizations that have been debuted so far are Sunuburst, Zoom Chart and Trellis Chart. They ...
It’s A Data-Driven Approach to Manage Outsourcing for This International Firm
Michigan-based logistics firm Con-way has taken an information-driven approach to keep tabs on which service provider handles which data assets, according to chief financial Chris Levitt. Levitt’s department is responsible for, among other things, managing the six different vendors that supply the $5.3 billion company with the servers, personal computers and software that power its infrastructure. ...
Keep Your Personal Mobile Data Safe with Help From the… FCC?
Security software maker Lookout is offering new mobile users information on how they can protect their data and avoid cyber threats through a web service that it launched yesterday. The Smartphone Security Checker is hosted on the FCC’s website and lists several other cosponsors besides Lookout, including the Department of Homeland Security, The National Cyber Security ...
Howard Elias’ Take on The IT Skill Gap for Big Data, Cloud
Howard Elias, the president and COO of EMC’s services unit, wrote up a very insightful piece about the growing skill gap in two key areas of IT: cloud computing and big data. These new technologies are creating opportunities for both vendors and the client organizations that leverage them to do business. The innovation in recent ...
Companies Spending More on IT Services, But 2013 Still A Challenge
The University of Pennsylvania says that the enterprise is spending more on outsourced services, and has the numbers to back it up. A recent article on the Warton business school journal cites a study from Offshore Insights that claims 43 percent of clients plan to increase their spending by as much as five percent in ...
Alfresco Ups Security, Extends File-Sharing Cloud to AWS
The latest edition of Alfresco’s flagship product offers enterprises document management capabilities on Amazon Web Services. The open-source platform supports public and private deployments, as well as hybrid environments that offer improved support for mobile workers. “As the only vendor on the market to offer the same simple and scalable open platform for the enterprise ...
Infochimps Debuts Enterprise Play with Zero Migration PaaS for Data Analytics
Infochimps is touting a new offering that allows enterprises to move to the cloud without investing too much in data migration. The service is targeting large organizations that face the challenge of moving massive amounts of information to and from their legacy infrastructure. Enterprise Cloud is powered by a network of data center partners and ...