More Ways to Flag Pirates after SOPA Flop
AT&T, Verizon and a number of other major network providers are set to deploy a new copyright alert system that will flag users who share pirated material. The wind is blowing from the direction…
Your Complete Guide to Strata + Hadoop World 2012
New York City Data Week will start on October 22 and will run until the 26th. We’ll see plenty of events during the week, such as the IBM Big Data Developer Day, DataKind DataSprint,…
Sony Cuts 2,000 Jobs with Camera Factory Shutdown
In today’s mobile news roundup: Sony shuts down Japanese smaera plant; Google reveals new Samsung Chromebook; BlackBerry dropped by consulting firm; and New Android Trojan found on Google Play. Sony shuts down Japanese camera…
Who Will Wow Us Most? Apple, Google & Microsoft Gear Up for October Reveals
The end of October is an incredibly busy month for the tech sector, with rival platforms including Apple, Google and Microsoft launching competing services to boost their respective ecosystems. For months we’ve known that…
Yahoo Pulls Out Of Korea, Conditions “Too Difficult”
Yahoo has just announced that it plans to dump the Korean search market, as part of new CEO Marissa Mayer’s ongoing efforts to realign the firm’s global business and streamline its operations. Mayer was…
How the Xbox, Surface Tablet Fit Into Microsoft’s Windows 8 Strategy
Microsoft’s known for its enterprise software, but with the cloud impacting the way we do business and pleasure, the Redmond company is shifting strategies around the consumer. The upcoming Windows 8 platform will appeal…
LinkedIn Update More than Just a Pretty Face
Social media remains an important aspect of our personal and business lives, bridging the enterprise and consumer market with broadening expectations. And as companies like LinkedIn and Facebook continue seeking ways to make a…
Color Failed Because of Bad Press
Color Labs, the photo-sharing app founded by serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen, is in a rocky place at the moment. Since last year’s $41 million series A funding, we haven’t heard much about the mobile…
Why is Verizon Capturing All Customer Data and Recording Usage?
By Isha Suri
Verizon Wireless is proudly saying that it knows everything (read again, everything!) about its customers, their habits, gender, age, interests, and most demographic details. It’s because the telecom company is monitoring the app and…
New Switches, Servers Driving Evolution to 10 Gb E
While the excitement, and most of the press, in data center and in particular networking technology is focused on virtualization and the emerging Software-Led Infrastructure, hardware still matters, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman…