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Syria Spy Tech May Be Powered By NetApp, U.S. Senators Seek Investigation
Amid technology companies being implicated in oppression and censorship, U.S. lawmakers are seeking an investigation against NetApp for their potential role in Internet-surveillance infrastructure being raised in Syria after the recent political upheaval. A recent article in Bloomberg reveals that Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) and Robert Casey (D-Pennsylvania) have sought action from the departments of State ...
Microsoft Xbox 360 “Madrid” Beta Dashboard Update Rolls Out
Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will begin to push out a beta preview of it’s new Xbox 360 code-name “Madrid” dashboard. The beta preview will give a select-few beta testers access to the new dashboard so that they can see what’s happening and be part of the bleeding edge. This extends out of Microsoft’s call ...
Steam’s User Database Compromised, Possible Credit-Card Information Theft
Earlier this week it came to our attention that Valve’s video game digital download service, Steam, had suffered an intrusion on its user forums—it has now come to our attention, via a message sent from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell that states that credit card numbers and other personal information had been taken along with ...
Xbox.com Dashboard Goes Social with Upcoming Renovation
Microsoft is seeking to bring the social element of Xbox LIVE front-and-center to start marching the users of their gaming network to the beat of the same drum—and that drum is all about keeping in touch and bringing out the gamer community. While the dashboard is changing, it will focus on a Social tab which ...
Amy O’Connor in theCube: Nokia Looks to Hadoop for Transforming Data Solutions and Consumer Apps
The troubles facing smartphone manufacturer Nokia have been front and center a lot lately so seeing them at Hadoop World 2011 shines a light on their future intent. Nokia Senior Director of Analytics, Amy O’Connor, came into theCube for an interview with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about how Nokia is using Hadoop and unstructured ...
Cloudera CTO Amr Awadallah Gives a Glimpse of Hadoop and Gaming, Modern Warfare
John Furrier and Dave Vellante had the CTO and cofounder of Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, in theCube today to speak about the integration of Hadoop and how he sees the future lifting into the clouds. In the midst of discussion about Cloudera and Hadoop, a bright point emerged about the collision between data analysis and online ...
Zynga Reschedules Initial Public Offering for Shortly After Thanksgiving
Rumors of Zynga’s pre-Thanksgiving IPO plans from not too long ago may have been exaggerated, new news on the subject, according to two people who spoke with Bloomberg, suggests that they’re headed instead for an IPO immediately following Turkey Day. The opportune filing of the gaming company’s initial public offering started with a $1 billion ...
PC Gamers Change Your Pants: Steam’s Forums Hacked
And by pants, I mean passwords. It looks like reports have been flying all morning that Steam’s forums have been hacked. Steam is an online community and gaming service that provides digital downloads of popular games from the currently popular Batman: Arkham Asylum to extremely rave MMOFPS Team Fortress 2. Aside from the service, Steam ...
MIT Server Becomes Host to Seething DoS and Vulnerability Scanner Suite Infection
Recently, a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been found host to a heavy duty suite of attack tools and used for vulnerability scanning and compromises. Researchers at Bitdefender caught it attempting to inject malware code into unprotected sites on the Web. The researchers say that the ongoing attacks appear to be related ...
Kinect Sales Hit Milestone of 10m Units Sold Total
Microsoft has celebrated the first birthday of Kinect by announcing a lifetime sales of 10m units moved. This is somewhat in contrast to the astonishing opening sales that gave it 8m total unit sales in the first 60 days—a fact that landed the Microsoft Kinect in the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records ...