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Bill Gates Advocated Skype Takeover as Microsoft’s Shadow Looms Over Mobile
Like the Cylon’s from Battlestar Galactica, Microsoft obviously has a plan and the software giant has probably been scheming ever since they laid down a cool $8.5 billion to purchase Internet calling software company Skype. Even giant multinational corporations don’t just rush off to spend that much money for a business segment that nobody thinks ...
Square Enix Confirms 25,000 E-mail Addresses Taken in Website Breach
The PlayStation Network hasn’t been the only video game outfit to suffer a data breach in the past weeks, a breach at Eidos Montreal suffered one recently that has gone relatively unnoticed. It seems to be part of a trend where more video game networks are becoming more attractive to attackers and thus treated as ...
Rumor: Skype Only an Appetizer as Microsoft Aims for Nokia Aqusition
Russian technology blogger, Eldar Murtazin, has set the mobile world on fire today with a Twitter post suggesting that Microsoft might be whetting their appetite for a purchase of Nokia’s mobile division. This would be in addition to the software giant’s recent acquisition of Skype for $8.5b earlier this month. “MS&Nokia deal could be closed ...
Possible FTC Scrutiny of DropBox Sheds Light on Personal Security in the Cloud
With more than 25 million users, to call cloud-based personal-storage software DropBox wildly popular would be an understatement. It’s an excellent little on-desktop app with a multitude of connectivity functions to being able to publish files directly from desktop to the web to sharing between friends and mobile devices. In short, it’s become one of ...
SAPphire 2011: Tony Pagliarulo Talks Virtualization and Business Intelligence
As the Vice President of IT at EMC, Tony Pagliarulo sits in a very interesting place when it comes to choosing what software and enterprise production will be taking EMC into the future. John Furrier and Dave Vellante interviewed him in The Cube at the SAPphire NOW 2011 conference today and asked him a few ...
As the PlayStation Network Comes Back Online, Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Discovered as Part of Attack
This weekend has seen the beginning of the end of the saga of the PlayStation Network downtime that left millions of customers in the dark and dragged Sony into the glaring spotlight of Congressional scrutiny. Burning the downtime to an end racks up a total of just under 24 days offline. Rumors of the network’s ...
Facebook Hired PR Company Burson-Marsteller to Plant Negative Google Stories
The social networking giant, Facebook found themselves caught up in a campaign-level fiasco today when news outlets caught them secretly hiring a PR firm to distribute negative press about Google. The plot revolved around producing FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt) directed at Google’s social application Social Circle by amplifying privacy fears about how it functions. The caper’s collapse ...
Comcast Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay, ISP Says “It’s Not Us”
The Pirate Bay is investigating an issue that seems to primarily affect US subscribers to Comcast cable Internet: basically, they can’t get to their favorite tracker. When this news hit the wires six hours ago, the spark lit the flames of old controversies stirred by other ISPs and net censorship—however, Comcast was quick to deny ...
TLD, aka Predator, Kinect-like Open Source Tracking Algorithms
The Microsoft Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 is more than just a fancy camera with a microphone attached—it’s a culmination of hardware and software that work together to drive tracking information out of the device and to connected devices. We’ve covered the anatomy of the algorithms that do the tracking before, but they’re still ...
Microsoft Tapped to Enable the US Government Open Cloud
Governments essentially run on logistics, the political game of governing people and moving money is all about juggling a lot of different data points. As a result, governments produce, study, collate, curate, and stack away a great deal of data—the United States government and all its myriad organs are no different. The result of this ...