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Six Enterprise-Grade Firewalls for Your Corporate Network
Security firms are starting to address the requirements of next generation applications with their software, responding to trends such as BYOD, the cloud and big data. Modernization introduces more complexity to the corporate network, and contributes to the creation of new security vulnerabilities as a result. This also means that all business networks from small teams to ...
Who Needs Cyber Monday? eShops Rake in Over $1BN on Black Friday 2012
Black Friday was the heaviest online spending day to date, according to a new comScore report that says e-commerce sites sold 1.042 billion worth of merchandise on November 23. That’s 26-percent more than what digital consumers shed out last year, the research firm says. Customer interest spiked on Black Friday, but it only accounted for a fraction ...
Cutting Costs in the Cloud: Government Data Centers, IaaS and Cisco
Last week’s top stories include a big government shift to the cloud and Capgemini’s push to monetize this trend, in addition to a couple notable updates from Joyent and Cisco. According to a recent paper from the Office of Management and Budget, the public sector’s plans to consolidate IT infrastructure are coming along nicely. No ...
eStores Finally Beat Real Stores for Holiday Shoppers
ClickFox, a big data firm that specializes in consumer insight, released a new report that says 62 percent of customers plan to do their shopping online this year. The reason: it’s just more convenient, but actually better than going to a physical store. “Consumers have become adept at identifying the easiest customer service resolution,” said ...
The Worst of Foxconn 2012: From Suicidal Workers to the Robots that Will Replace Them
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that mass produces many consumer hardware brands including the iPhone, has received a lot of attention in the past few years for it poor working conditions. But it seems that this year the company, which employs over one million workers throughout China, has hit a new low. One of the biggest ...
Why Foxconn Was the Biggest Thing in Consumer Tech in 2012
What were the biggest events in consumer tech for 2012? NewsDesk host Kristin Feledy finds out, in her interview with SiliconANGLE founding editor Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins. The discussion covered a lot of ground, from the fuss around Foxconn working conditions in China to fair trade from the Apple perspective (full interview below). Hopkins first addresses ...
Mint’s 10 Commandants for Savvy Black Friday Shopping
Personal finance site Mint just published a new infographic that offers its users a few tips on how to deal with shopping season fervor without breaking the bank. The chart (see below) covers ten bulletins that consumers should check before heading out to stores. Mint’s first recommendation for shoppers is moderation: avoiding items that you won’t end ...
Clean Tech, Data Journalism the Top Trends for Big Data in 2012
Big Data was undoubtedly a hot topic in 2012, reaching full effect as a bubbling mainstream interest. In part two of his interview on NewsDesk, SiliconAngle founding editor Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins covers this major highlight of 2012, noting the trend’s very positive impact on many industries, and adoption is spreading across even more verticals as ...
WiiU Launch Recap: The Good, the Bad and the Gimmicky
Nintendo unveiled its WiiU next generation gaming console this week, and the reviews are pouring in. The good The platform, which already sold out in the US, is considerably better than its processor. The gamepad has been touted as “more luxurious” than the Wii’s, and the console itself features USB and SD card compatibility as ...
Big Data Review: A Fresh Round of Product Updates, Investments
The biggest highlights in big data these past seven days included a couple of major announcements from SAP and Jaspersoft, as well as a big milestone for the NoSQL community and even bigger funding round for Continuuity. In addition to launching new solutions and adding Windows 8 support to a few of its existing BI ...