Time at the top is usually limited. In the case of social media, the stay at the top may be even shorter for businesses trying to capitalize on trends. Facebook, Inc. rose to prominence in the previous decade, beating out MySpace LLC to become the top social networking website. Now, amidst growing criticism over its ...

Minecraft has been all over the news this week thanks to the announcement that Microsoft Corporation plans to purchase Mojang AB, the company that created and owns the copyright for Minecraft, for an estimated $2.5 billion. Officially released in 2011, the game has sold over 55 million copies in total–16 million on PC, 21 million ...

Anonymous chat apps may not be as protective of users’ identities as we’d like to think. Would you like to vent about your annoying coworkers without anyone finding out who you are? Do you have a marital indiscretion you want to confess but cannot risk your spouse finding out? Apparently, many people do, with secret-sharing ...

Chromebook sales are up 250 percent, accounting for 35 percent of notebook sales, according to a report by NPD Group, Inc. Chromebooks are generally priced lower than standard notebooks, although Microsoft, Corp. has recently begun pushing back with similarly priced devices running Windows 8. As the name implies, a Chromebook runs Google Chrome OS, an ...

Dealing with data on a massive scale, the United States Postal Service is one of many organizations tackling the challenge of trying to stay customer-focused in a data-driven business environment. Speaking at Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s recently concluded HP Vertica Big Data Conference, Jim Cochrane, CIO and executive vice president of USPS, shed some light on the ...

The cyber attacks that put 40 million credit card numbers and other information stored in Target Corp. cash register systems at risk could be even more widespread than previously thought. According to an advisory released Friday, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Secret Service warned that retail companies should check their in-store Point-of-Sale ...

The United States Postal Service has changed significantly since the advent of Internet e-commerce, and those technological changes have been at times both disruptive and also profitable for the government agency. TheCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down with the postal service’s CIO Jim Cochrane to talk about some of those advancements in ...

Apple’s operating system for its mobile products lost 5 percent of its enterprise market share in Q2, primarily due to Android. Meanwhile, Windows Phone activations remained stagnant at 1 percent, according to Good Technology’s semi-annual Mobility Index Report. Apple iOS accounted for 67 percent of Q2 enterprise mobile activations in 2014, while Android accounted for ...

When Microsoft announced plans to lay off approximately 18,000 employees last month, it sent a chill through  its vast network of nearly 400,000 channel partners. While many of  the employees who will lose their jobs are from Microsoft’s newly acquired Nokia division, some partners see the cuts as a sign that Microsoft’s new business priorities are nudging them ...

The larger a computing infrastructure gets, the more difficult it becomes to pore through server logs to track down anomalies or errors. XpoLog Ltd. has introduced log management tools for Big Data that promise better searches at what it claims is a fraction of the cost of its competitors. XpoLog, which has been around for ...