Bikini-Clad Debt Collectors Plot Facebook “Honey Traps”
If it just so happens that you owe someone money, and suddenly a hot, bikini-clad chick tries to add you on Facebook, you might just want to think twice before you go accepting your…
Enter The World of “Dark Data”
The name suggests something sinister, like the ultimate unstable force that could destroy the world at any moment, but Dark Data can actually do an untold amount of good if it can only be…
Investors Love Amazon AWS – Should CIOs?
Investors have been in love with Amazon this past year, and why not? The company’s market cap has soared to over $120B since it bottomed in 2009 at just over $20B, delivering very attractive…
ServicesMesh Buys Spot on EMC Select Catalog
ServiceMesh announced that its flagship platform is available worldwide through EMC Select, a program that makes third party solution more available for customers of the storage giant. The Santa Monica-based firm shared the good…
Opinion: EMC Cisco NetApp – New Reality TV Show — Cisco Not Leaving VCE Anytime Soon
By John Furrier
The IT infrastructure business can sometimes feel like a “reality TV show” and their partnerships a zero sum game. A reality show maybe zero sum game NOT! Today I read a Network World article…
Linksys Group at Cisco Sold to Belkin
By John Furrier
Cisco System dumped their Linksys group in deal with Belkin. It was announced that Belkin entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit which included Linksys. Belkin intends to maintain the Linksys…
Coke Enables Social Sabotage with Coke Chase
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up and there’s as much anticipation for the commercials as there is for the game – almost. For big brands though, the competition for viewers is intense. So intense…
Google Looking to Create Cryptographic Rings for Users. Are You Ready?
By Isha Suri
Two Google engineers have brought up the idea of creating cryptographic rings to help users securely log into websites and other services.Eric Grosse and Mayank Upadhyay, both Google bods have submitted the paper Authentication…
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 24, 2013
Spanish Energy Company Chooses HP to Enhance Customer Service Madrileña Red de Gas, one of Spain’s largest energy companies, has signed a four-year agreement with HP to manage its SAP environment, allowing it to…
Big Data Fuels F1 Success For Team Sauber
When we talk about Big Data we tend to think about media & entertainment, big business and insights, and perhaps even big brother. But few people realize that Big Data is making a far…