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Infra

Containers need a lil’ help from resource optimization

By R. Danes Dec 28, 2018

Who isn’t cruising on the container bandwagon these days? They provide a virtualized means to run distributed software applications. They’re the tickets to multicloud since users can deploy them across multiple environments; they can…

Cloud

AWS certification gets managed-service providers into shape

By R. Danes Dec 28, 2018

What’s in an Amazon Web Services Inc. certification? Is it just a fancy label the company slaps on its buddies’ run-of-the-mill products? Let’s ask a bona fide AWS partner decorated with the Managed Service…

Apps

Facebook’s moderation rulebook has issues, according to report

By James Farrell Dec 27, 2018

Facebook Inc.’s almost Sisyphean task of moderating billions of posts cannot be easy, but the company could be doing a better job, according to a New York Times expose Thursday. The Times managed to get…

Blockchain

Electrum wallet hack spooks market, causing bitcoin price to plunge again

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2018

The price of bitcoin plunged Thursday after it was revealed that a bitcoin wallet provider had been hacked. According to a report today in ZDNet, a hacker or hacking group has stolen at least 200…

Blockchain

GMO Internet quits bitcoin mining business following $321M loss

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2018

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Inc. is walking away from the cryptocurrency industry, announcing that will no longer develop, manufacture or sell bitcoin mining hardware. The decision, while directly related to the precipitous drop in the…

Apps

Instagram backtracks after ‘accidentally’ releasing new version with horizontal swiping

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2018

Facebook Inc.-owned photo sharing app Instagram has been forced to backtrack after “accidentally” releasing a new version that did away with scrolling and replaced it with a Tinder-like horizontal swipe feature. Instagram users were presented…

Big Data

NEC to acquire Danish IT company KMD for $1.2B

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2018

Japan’s information technology systems company NEC Corp. said today it’s acquiring Denmark’s KMD Holding in a deal valued at 8 billion Danish Kroner ($1.22 billion). The deal, which is NEC’s second-largest acquisition ever, is…

Infra

Trump considers executive order to ban purchases from Huawei and ZTE

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump is taking another stab at Chinese technology firms Huawei Technology Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. Trump is looking at issuing a new executive order that would ban U.S. wireless carriers…

Emerging Tech

Want software-first agility? Get with event-driven architecture, says Accenture

By R. Danes Dec 27, 2018

Think microservices are as granular as it gets in modern information technology? Then shake hands with the new reactive, event-driven architecture. This method triggers reactions where teeny-tiny events happen, instead of waiting for longer…

Cloud

Cloud AI services dose big pharma with overdue speed, agility

By R. Danes Dec 27, 2018

What industry could stand to pick up its pace more than pharmaceutical research? Look at the price of drugs in the U.S. It can take over 10 years and billions of dollars to develop…

the latest

Containers need a lil’ help from resource optimization

Facebook’s moderation rulebook has issues, according to report

Electrum wallet hack spooks market, causing bitcoin price to plunge again

GMO Internet quits bitcoin mining business following $321M loss

Instagram backtracks after ‘accidentally’ releasing new version with horizontal swiping

NEC to acquire Danish IT company KMD for $1.2B

Trump considers executive order to ban purchases from Huawei and ZTE

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