Here we have some good news for the geeky girls! Atlassian is partnering with the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner organization to host its first ever Bay Area Girl Geek event, and is inviting 175 women in tech from around the Bay Area. Named as “From Bat Cave to Boardroom: Mastering Change in the World ...

A UK based, Anonymous hacktivist affiliate–Fawkes Security has revealed that it took down the HSBC websites worldwide on Thursday night via DDoS attacks. The hacktivist group posted the information on Pastebin.com. Here’s what they wrote: “As some of you may be aware HSBC bank suffered several DDoS attacks on the named sites in the past ...

Continuuity, a provider of unified experience across the entire application lifecycle from development to DevOps, has just launched the industry’s first Big Data application fabric, the Continuuity Big Data AppFabricTM that will revolutionize the developer experience, enabling any developer to quickly and easily build big data apps.Delivered as a Big Data application Platform as a ...

Kosova Hacker’s Security group has revealed that they have hacked the US National Weather Service, and lifted the potentially sensitive data after exploiting a vulnerability in the weather.gov website. Weather.gov is run by the US National Weather Service, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA is a unit of the US Department ...

Cloudscaling, the leading provider of open cloud infrastructure solutions for cloud-ready applications has recently launched a new compute API set for OpenStack that is compatible with Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) compute service. This makes the OpenStack the first IaaS software solution to support the GCE APIs. The update was given by the ...

SAP has recently announced a new cloud based application development platform, powered by HANA in-memory database. Named as NetWeaver Cloud, it is SAP’s very first platform-as-a-service, and is designed to complement SAP’s software-as-a-service offerings, such as Sales OnDemand, as well as its on-premise software. “One component of the strategy, NetWeaver Cloud, is generally available now. ...

inetwork, a division of Bandwidth has launched a developer challenge named ‘The Voice App Igniter’, aimed at discovering the next disruptive voice and messaging application. It will involve giving a challenge to the developers to create the next groundbreaking ideas for scalable voice or messaging applications, with a reward of up to $600K. Starting Monday ...

In recent times, DevOps has become a pretty much popular term, especially those working in an IT-centric company. But for those who are still not familiar with it, the DevOps Live Event would be a great place to start. This half-day conference is going to kick start on Saturday, October 20, and will address the ...

Verizon Wireless is proudly saying that it knows everything (read again, everything!) about its customers, their habits, gender, age, interests, and most demographic details. It’s because the telecom company is monitoring the app and data usage, and browsing habits of its customers. On the top of that, it has started selling the data to marketers ...

Telerik has been in news lately for providing lots of updates and tools, and the latest one includes its Q3 2012 collection of development tools targeted to developers focused on building Win8 apps, Visual Studio 2012 and data visualization for desktop, web and mobile app development. This makes Telerik the first and only vendor to ...