Firefox OS and Nokia enter the affordable smartphone race
The Mobile World Congress is in full swing, and one of the major trends we’ve seen so far is the rise of the affordable smartphone. Much attention has been given to Mozilla’s Firefox OS…
Shape Security nabs additional $40 Million to take on bots
Barely a month after they emerged from stealth and announced their arrival, Shape Security is back in the news. Today they’ve announced raising $40 Million in Series C funding and plan to expand their…
VMware expands market reach in SDDC push
VMware is pushing beyond familiar virtualization ground in a bid to gain a head start in the software-defined data center, an emerging paradigm that requires a fundamental re-imagining of IT from the underlying infrastructure…
IBM on DevOps culture + acquisition strategy | #IBMpulse
Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive for IBM Software & Systems, discussed the transition of the tech industry to the cloud and new trends in the developer world with theCUBE co-hosts John…
Cloudant eyes connected devices market with open source libraries for mobile
By Saroj Kar
Cloudant the company behind CouchDB has released open-source Android and iOS sync libraries for developers to manage and replicate mobile application data on phones, tablets and other occasionally connected devices. The Cloudant Sync for Android…
How the cloud will enable smart cars of the future | #IBMpulse
The fully automated car of the future will be on the roads by 2025, said Brian Droessler, Vice President of Continental AG, in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante,…
MtGox trading freeze and website closure aftermath continues [UPDATED]
By Kyt Dotson
Yesterday, February 24th, MtGox halted transactions on their bitcoin exchange, triggering The Bitcoin Six to publish a joint-statement about the exchange’s apparent demise. Shortly thereafter MtGox went entirely blank—not offline, but documents once served…
Windows Azure: The power behind upcoming game Titanfall for the Xbox One
By Saroj Kar
Titanfall is a new (hopefully) blockbuster game for the Xbox One. It’s coming out from publisher Electronic Arts and is due to be released in March 2014. The beta tests attracted more than 2…
AT&T and IBM simplify security services, take on modern cyber threats
IBM and AT&T have announced a series of major enhancements in their IT security capabilities that give mutual clients the ability to manage hybrid IT environments and to apply big data and analytics to…
New DigiCert tool identifies and helps fix SSL vulnerabilities
Digital certificates are a big part of the enterprise security picture, but often times issues that are found within an environment aren’t really fixed until it’s too late. SSL/TLS certificates are often mismanaged, rife…