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Cisco’s new CEO Chuck Robbins announces two executive hires on day 1
Cisco Systems Inc. announced two new executive hires on Monday as John Chambers finally stepped down from his role as company CEO, to be replaced by Chuck Robbins. The company has pulled off something of a coup with the hiring of venture capital specialist Zorawar Biri Singh as its new CTO for platforms and solutions, ...
Brain-powered gadget sales to top $200M in 2020
The Brain-to-Machine (BMI) product niche has been a little obscured by more well known concepts like the Internet of Things and software-defined this and that, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth a second glance. For according to new findings from ABI Research (Allied Business Intelligence, Inc.), the market could be worth $200 million a ...
Pakistan squashes BlackBerry’s secure messaging service
Pakistan is about to shut down access to BlackBerry’s secure messaging services due to unspecified “national security concerns”, according to media reports from the country. Pakistan’s Express Tribune obtained an unverified memo (.PDF) that was purportedly leaked from the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), which allegedly shows the minutes of a meeting that took place one ...
Intel creates a ‘Cloud for All’ to hasten enterprise adoption
Intel Corp. is stepping up its cloud game with the introduction of the Intel Cloud for All. Announced last Friday, the initiative is aimed at bringing the undeniable benefits of cloud computing to more and more businesses, and will take the form of new “industry investments and collaborations to unleash tens of thousands of new ...
Researchers unveil Hornet, a faster, more secure alternative to Tor
While it’s long been possible to peruse the Internet privately using a range of encrypted tools, such measures often demand that browsing speed is sacrificed in order to keep your identity a secret. But now, researchers claim to have developed a method to browse the Web anonymously at the same speed as your standard ISP ...
Red Hat focused firmly on security & stability in RHEL 6.7 release
Red Hat Inc. has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7, after the latest version of its popular distro left its beta period. RHEL users might be disappointed that there are no major new features in the latest edition. Instead, the focus has been on security and stability, with the arrival ...
Amazon shares rocket on AWS growth
Amazon.com Inc. posted its second quarter financial results late on Thursday, and the news was met with rather more applause than its lackluster Prime Day effort last week. On Thursday, the company reported $1.8 billion in sales for Q2, an 80 percent increase from the same period last year. Altogether, the company raked in profits ...
Hortonworks’ cloud agnostic HDP 2.3 hits general availability
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks Inc. announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.3 at the Hadoop Summit yesterday, less than a month after it first unveiled the release. At the time Hortonworks first showed of HDP 2.3, the company said the biggest update was it can now be automatically provisioned in any ...
Microsoft to give 10 years of support for Windows 10 to everyone
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 users will be given free feature and functionality updates for exactly ten years from the time they first buy the operating system – for example, on a new device. This was revealed through Microsoft’s latest update to its Windows lifecyle fact sheet. The document lists a number of milestone ...
Sony’s enterprise drones ready to take off next year
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is getting into the drone business. The company said it’s going to create a joint venture with another Japanese firm to build UAVs that capture images and other data for business uses. Sony’s mobile arm is teaming up with ZMP Inc., a Tokyo-based robotics firm, to build its drones. But before ...