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Box Goes Blazing Fast With Data Transfer Accelerator Network
With more than 11 million customers, including 125,000 leading multinational companies among them, the cloud storage company Box knows that it can’t afford to let them down even for an instant. To make sure it doesn’t, the company is today launching its new Box Accelerator – a kind of intelligent routing technology that aims to ...
Coke Gets Social With Interactive Drinks Vending Machine
Tons of modern day gizmos and gadgets can claim to be powered by an embedded Intel Core i7 processor these days, but the latest device to carry one should raise a few eyebrows. I mean, seriously, an Intel chip in a coke vending machine? Apparently, that is the case, as Intel proudly showed off its ...
Strange Big Data: A World On The Move
The UN reckons that more than 200 million people – approximately 3% of the world’s population – live outside of the country in which they were born. Given the complexity and magnitude of international migration, the issue has become a highly charged one for just about every single nation in the world. There are differing ...
Crowdsourcing Project Aims to Put a ‘Human’ Face on Big Data
Visualizing big data is tricky enough – so can you imagine what it would be like trying to photograph it? Line after line of HTML codes and financial transaction data – this isn’t exactly the most enticing subject material from a photographer’s perspective, but that hasn’t stopped renowned photojournalist Rick Smolan from attempting what will ...
Chinese Android Malware Mayhem Goes Into Overdrive
Complacent Android users beware: the volume of malware targeting such devices is growing at a terrifyingly exponential rate, rising by 216% or 700% over the last three months, depending on which security company you believe, and it’s all coming from China. Meanwhile, it’s been separately revealed that as many as 50% of all Android devices ...
Up Close And Personal.com: A New Way To Store Your Most Sensitive Data
Rather than try to outmuscle heavyweights like Dropbox and Evernote, consumer cloud startup Personal.com has instead decided to carve out a specialist niche all of its own, offering secure remote storage for your most private, personal information. Sticking steadfastly to the old theory that, “if you can’t beat ‘em, then join ‘em”, Personal.com has given ...
US Cellular Adopting Devicescape’s Virtual Wi-Fi Network To Ease Data Burden
The coming data spectrum crunch is a problem that mobile carriers are getting very nervous about, but it looks as if they’ve already found the solution – simply by tapping into the vast reserves of free, open Wi-Fi networks available in coffee shops, shopping malls and other public buildings, they can seriously lighten the load ...
David Carasso Discusses Company Culture and the Future of Splunk .conf 2012
At Splunk .conf 2012 today, theCube’s Jeff Kelly and Jeff Frick finally got a chance to sit down with David Carasso, Principal Scientist R&D and ‘Chief Mind’ of Splunk. David discussed the origins of Splunk and how its ‘culture of fun’ played an integral part in the company’s success, whilst hinting at what the company ...
Pre-Installed Malware Straight Out The Box
Ingenious hackers have opened up a new frontline in their battle against software companies, audaciously infecting a number of computers with malware at a time and place when they should be at their most secure – on the factory production line. The startling discovery comes from a new Microsoft study, which revealed that a number ...
A Platform for Good Aims to Do Battle with Evil
The issue of kids and internet safety seems to crop up every other day, always with some new horror story involving social media sites like Facebook or ‘flirting’ apps like Skout. But while this negative news tends to hog the headlines, there are plenty of positive stories that never seem to get any press. This ...
