Don’t do anything until you know why you’re doing it
Hey! This is the fifth part of an ongoing series called “How To Be (Internet) Famous. I’m assuming you’ve read the other installments before you’ve read this new one. If you haven’t, don’t worry!…
Heinz apologizes for QR code on ketchup bottle that led to hardcore porn site
By Kyt Dotson
Pennsylvania-based H. J. Heinz Company, maker of a much beloved condiment across the world — Heinz Tomato Ketchup — just learned the hard way that the Internet is forever and that names, especially domain…
Halo 5’s REQ Packs become the latest microtransaction controversy
By Eric David
Few game industry trends seem to spark nerd rage more than microtransactions, and the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians is the latest in a long line of recent titles that allows players to spend real money to unlock…
Will Nutanix win the new enterprise platform computing race? | #NEXTConf
Ravi Mhatre, founder and managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, talked to theCUBE during Nutanix .NEXT 2015 about the future of enterprise platform computing and how Nutanix has the potential to become the next…
Inevitability of breaches changes security equation
By Kirsten Bay
“What will be the key security initiatives for 2015 to combat escalating cyber attacks?” was a question asked at a conference I recently attended. The panelists offered many answers ranging from better detection capabilities…
Nutanix brings back the weekend | #NEXTConf
Nutanix is “the most disruptive and liberating technology that I have used in the last 10 years,” proclaimed Bob Love, director of Information Technologies at Bottomline Technologies, a financial services focused software as a…
Smart city trends test freebies, chatty trash cans
This week’s Smart City roundup features San Jose joining the connected city trend, a company that has transformed recycling and waste management in the U.K., and device interconnectivity and data security that’s driving innovation for…
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The container front heats up as EMC throws its weight behind Flocker
Somewhat atypically for an open-source project, the first major release of Flocker is rolling out without bringing any major new capabilities to the table. But the update includes something of arguably much greater significance for the long-term prospects…
Fallout Shelter overtakes Candy Crush Saga on top-grossing iOS games
By Eric David
Bethesda Game Studios made a lot of exciting announcements regarding the Fallout franchise during this year’s E3, and one of the most unexpected was the sudden release of Fallout Shelter, a mobile game that lets players…
AWS adds support for Apache Spark on EMR
The Apache Spark open-source distributed processing engine for Big Data workloads is coming to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud giant has just updated its EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service to handle Spark applications, meaning…