Big Data “Doubts Turned into Big Data Deals” at Strata 2013
It’s funny how much life can change in just one short year. Twelve months ago the world was still grasping the concept of Big Data, exploring its applications and use cases. In 2013 many…
Evernote Hacked, Enforces Password Change for 50 Million Users
By Kyt Dotson
Evernote, the popular Internet-based note-taking service, has posted an advisory that it has been subject to a security breach that they believe allowed hackers to infiltrate and take usernames, associated e-mail addresses and encrypted…
Hobbit, Game of Thrones Spur Hollywood’s Latest War Against YouTube
John Casaretto appeared on NewsDesk earlier to discuss the latest copyright infringement news from Hollywood with our host, Kristin Feledy (full video below). Earlier this week, Warner Brothers Studios sent Google a takedown notice for…
Hadoop Overdose @ Strata: This Week in Big Data
The OReilly Strata Conference was this week’s big data epicenter. Several noteworthy companies attended the gathering, a few of them launched new Hadoop distributions, and many others announced specialized solutions designed to either run…
The FCC in Favor of Jailbreaking, Against DMCA
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, bans consumers from jailbreaking their phones – or at least, that was the plan. According to SiliconAngle contributing editor John Casaretto, the law is not only ineffective…
Groupon CEO Fired & More “Good” News – SocialANGLE News Roundup
By Andrew Lowe
Just As We Predicted – Groupon CEO Fired Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has been fired. We reported yesterday on NewsDesk that an underwhelming fourth quarter financial report caused Groupon stock to take a…
Iranian Hacker Story Gaining Momentum – Drone Threats, CBRN Data Leak
The Iranian Hacker story is gaining national momentum. Today I was on the American Adversaries Drive Time show as a guest to talk about the story. I followed Congressman Ron DeSantis on the WORL…
Vint Cerf Talks About the Security Needs in the “Internet of Things” at RSA 2013
By Isha Suri
Vint Cerf, better known as one of the fathers of internet, recently addressed at the 2013 RSA conference reinforcing the requirement of a rigid authentication system that could provide public and private keys to…
PlayStation 4 Could Go All-in on Social, Cloud-Streaming
By Saroj Kar
Sony has huge ambitions for the PlayStation Network and the next generation PlayStation 4. Although Sony talked at length about the PlayStation 4’s philosophy, the company managed to leave out details such as specs…
Four Issues Keep CIOs from the Cloud
While CIOs express numerous concerns when discussing trusting mission-critical applications to the Cloud, they really boil down to four primary issues, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe. As a consultant and former CIO himself, he…