Wearable tech for fashion-forward women + paranoid peeps
This week’s Wearable Tech roundup features a glove fit for the techie woman, a jacket to help you get away from all the buzz, and a wearable lock to protect your Mac. Mujjo touchscreen…
SA Week in Review : #IBMIoD, BlackBerry Switch Off + Anonymous
By Ryan Cox
This week IBM’s Information on Demand 2013 event took center stage, bringing Big Data to the front and center of the tech community. Mixed into all of the #IBMIoD coverage was news that Blackberry…
RightScale complements management platform with multi-Cloud cost analytics
RightScale is tackling cloud sprawl in multi-provider environments with a new service that integrates with its flagship management platform to let IT organizations take action before the charges start piling up. Dubbed Cloud Analytics,…
Canonical jumps into open cloud ecosystem with OpenStack + Cloud Foundry
Seeking a bigger slice of the public cloud pie, Canonical has joined forces with Pivotal to reposition Ubuntu at the center of the open PaaS ecosystem. Under the partnership, the Linux distributor will integrate…
Twitter IPO: Ringing the bell and soaring stocks
Microblogging site Twitter debuted on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday under the ticker TWTR. There were a few questions that came with its debut at NYSE, such as its initial public offering price,…
How Huddle stayed ahead of the BYOD curve : Q&A with Andy McLoughlin
Some of the most fascinating stories in BYOD are from those companies that embarked on a cloud-ready journey before the mobile era truly took hold. One of those early visionaries is Huddle, a company…
China’s military hacks ongoing, driven deeper underground
And now, thanks to the NSA, we can’t even take the moral high ground… The public exposure of Chinese military hacking group PLA Unit 61398, also known as APT1 or Comment Crew, has…
On the misconceptions of open source vs. proprietary debate in Big Data
By Ryan Cox
Editor’s Note: the following is an excerpt from an interview conducted with Jim Vogt, CEO of Zettaset. As part of our Big Data series, we’ve asked industry thought leaders about scaling Big Data applications, the…
Parallels integrates Mac, PC and iPad into your IT infrastructure
By Saroj Kar
Apple products for work are used globally by business and, as per a Forrester report, about half of all companies have at least provided some of their staff with Macs or iPad. According to…
Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io goes frownyface and shuts down after serious breach
By Kyt Dotson
Visitors to the secure Bitcoin wallet site Inputs.io will be greeted with a frowning emoticon today and a PGP-signed message telling them the bad news: Inputs.io has been shut down in the wake of…