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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 ...
QLogic’s Competitive Edge: the Business of Data Infrastructure
As the Senior Director of Product Marketing & Management for QLogic, Satish Lakshmanan knows where the data-center and information infrastructure company wants to take their business. So, when Dave Vellante and John Furrier got him in an interview in theCube at EMC World 2011 it was no surprise that he had a lot to say ...
Apple Faces Congress over Location Tracking Concerns
This morning convened a Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology, and law with a hearing about location tracking on mobile phones and heard from representatives of Apple and Google. All of this has reached out of a series of privacy concerns governing location tracking—a fact about iOS devices that was rediscovered by UK researchers ...
Tom Roloff Talks About Big Data and Cloud Enterprise Solutions
Recently, Dave Vellante of Wikibon and John Furrier of SiliconANGLE got a chance to interview Tom Roloff, Senior VP of EMC Consulting, in theCube at EMC World 2011. Roloff heads up EMC’s information-centric expertise team for developing information infrastructures to solve today’s data-oriented business problems. However, as he explained during the interview, a lot of ...
Hadoop Seeing a Surge of New Products at EMC World 2011 from Greenplum to Brisk
EMC World 2011 is casting the umbra of Big Data and the Cloud over Las Vegas today and Hadoop has taken its usual front-and-center stage in the spotlight. Amid announcements of EMC’s own addition to the Hadoop ecology of products, several others have also made their debut including products that enhance storage, delivery, and software ...
Happy Cloud Brings the Power of the Cloud to Video Game Downloads
With the advent of higher bandwidth and fat pipe Internet connections to residences we’ve been seeing the rise of streaming for everything. It can affect more than just TV shows and movies, but also video games. Gaming-on-demand is the Holy Grail for impulse buys of interactive media from the Internet. The usual video game purchase ...