Surprise! Marissa Mayer is Yahoo’s new CEO
Marissa Mayer is now the CEO of Yahoo. The move is a surprising catch and major coup for Yahoo, which for years has been struggling to stay alive and losing market share in the…
Microsoft Office 2013: Cloud at the Core or Cloudwashing?
Microsoft has finally taken the lid off Microsoft Office 2013, letting consumers get its first crack at the completely redesigned suite of industry-standard productivity applications, including new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more,…
Huawei Aggressively Targets Storage Market
“Our business is changing, and our customers’ needs are changing. We need to enter these markets,” said Jeff Jiang, the head of Huawei‘s storage marketing. The Chinese ITC firm sells networking equipment to telcoms, and is…
GM to Bring IT Talent-in House, $600M contract with HP at Risk
Auto giant General Motors is one of HP’s biggest clients. The company currently outsources about 90 percent of its IT needs, and its automobile business alone pays Hewlett-Packard $350 million annually. The firms also…
Something You Won’t Hear From Amazon: Insourcing is Safer, Cheaper and Better
It’s not something Amazon broadcasts. “It” is the dirty little secret of cloud computing: For the real-world enterprise, a public cloud isn’t as secure, cost-effective or flexible as a private cloud. Period. Some enterprises…
Anonymous Launches Par:AnoIA, Looking to Lead WikiLeaks
By Isha Suri
As discussed in my previous post that Anonymous hactivist group keeps on looking for ways to grab attention, here we have one more instance of the same instinct. Anonymous is quite interested in the…
Breaking Bad 5th Season: Online Alternatives for Dish Customers
Fans of AMC’s Breaking Bad were pretty ecstatic when the premiere of the fifth season aired last night. Unfortunately, Dish Network subscribers weren’t able to catch the premiere of the meth-dealing life of Walter…
Wikibon Finds Big Data and Cloud Driving IT Transformation
Wikibon has released the results of its first IT Transformation survey conducted in May and June of this year with the assistance of SiliconAngle’s ServicesAngle. The study was comprised of 261 business technology professionals…
Verizon Brings GameTanium, Offers On-demand Android Games
By Isha Suri
We all love Android, and of course the range of applications it provides. So, if you’re an owner of an Android smartphone, there’s going to be a moment of glee that Verizon has got…
Bitcoinica Can’t Catch a Break: Recent Breach Hemorrhages 40,000 BTC
By Kyt Dotson
In what appears to be an extension of security issues resulting from a previous breach in May, Bitcoinica—a Bitcoin Forex housing a lot of funds—had their MtGox account compromised and over ฿40,000 BTC were…