2 New Voice-Activated Assistants for Today’s Smart Home
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could walk in your house and command things to turn on or off with just the sound of your sultry voice? Though this scenario may sound like a…
Update LIVE: Any Holes in NSA’s Secret Documents to Protect US Citizens?
Updated with full video – see below. Following Edward Snowden’s public ouster of the PRISM program, more information has come out regarding NSA practices with The Guardian releasing a statment that the NSA is…
Cisco Acquires Composite Software on the Heels of Citrix Partnership
Networking juggernaut Cisco signed a definitive agreement to buy Composite Software, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company that sells data virtualization software and related services. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will shell out…
O’Reilly Velocity Highlights: Web Performance Drives Business Value
TheCube crew attended this week’s Velocity conference to bring you the latest news and analysis from the web development scene. Co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante kicked off the first day of the event…
What’s Up With Mt. Gox? US Dollar Withdrawals Suspended for “Next Two Weeks”
As the world’s most popular Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox sees a huge amount of traffic with thousands of users each day transferring money into the exchange to buy the virtual currency, or else to…
How to Squeeze 1,000 Terabytes of Data onto a Single DVD
DVDs and Blu-ray discs probably don’t get as much respect as they deserve from technophiles, simply because the amount of data they can store in comparison to hard drives or flash is minuscule. But…
Wikibon: New Players Poised to Disrupt the Network
Two hot new startups are gearing up for an assault on the traditional networking paradigm. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman examined each one and provided his take on their respective technologies in a recent…
Leaked FISA Documents Show The NSA Can Access US Data Without a Warrant
The Guardian has just released a new bunch of FISA documents relating to the NSA’s PRISM spying program, in particular regarding the circumstances under which it can can collect data on US citizens, and…
Quick How-To for Video on Instagram + #RIPVine Memes
By Ryan Cox
So Instagram announced Vine, I mean video on Instagram today. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom unveiled the new video product at an event at Facebook’s headquarters on Thursday. Instagram boasts 130 million active users each…
IBM Edge: A Complex Method to Solve Customer Problems with Software Defined Storage [Video]
By Saroj Kar
Ron Riffe, Storage Software Business Strategy of IBM, talks about how he strives to understand the economics of business problems and implement IBM solutions, live inside theCUBE with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman…