Microsft-NBC Divorce: A 16 Year History
After 16 years of marriage, Microsoft Corp. and NBC are divorcing. Comcast, the parent company of NBC, has acquired Microsoft’s stake in MSNBC.com and the website will now be known as NBCNews.com. Users of…
Monday Mobile Roundup: AT&T Halves Nokia Lumia Price
Today’s mobile news roundup features Nokia Lumia’s price drop, Fujifilm suing Motorola over a patent infringement, smartphones being used to diagnose ear infections, Korea’s battlefield apps, and more. AT&T drops Lumia price AT&T halved…
Former EMC Employee Steals $220,000
EMC, which has been flying high since the wild success of their annual conference in Las Vegas experienced some misfortunes this week when a former employee was charged with theft totaling $220,000. Madeline Vinton…
This Week in Big Data: VCs, Cloud All Over the Place
This past week featured a big push into the cloud by Kognitio, new from Fujitsu and Datameer and a couple of funding rounds. We can start with those. Clustrix offers database appliances that run…
Cyberthreat Weekly: A $75 Million Cyber Bank Job, Anonymous Mars Japanese Websites, and Spammers Aim for London Olympics 2012
Looking at the cybersecurity goings-on last week, it’s safe to assume that hacking is taken to new heights. Cybersecurity is not just an issue of stealing personal information and defacing websites, it can cause…
Cisco Releases Patches for Multiple Vulnerabilities in TelePresence Endpoint Devices
By Saroj Kar
Cisco has acknowledged bugs in multiple versions of their TelePresence devices software, which would allow a remote attacker to take control of videophones by injecting arbitrary code and malicious commands. The company has released…
Zuckerberg Expects Facebook Mobile Roll Out to be a Breeze
In a recent interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed how penetrating the mobile scene proved to be a challenge but it wasn’t that different in setting up Facebook in the first place. Zuckerberg stated that…
Google+ for iPad Tops This Week’s Business Tablet App Roundup
A couple days ago Google debuted a G+ app for the iPad that is not merely a tablet-optimized social networking client, but also a very viable tool for business users thanks to one powerful…
This Week in the Cloud: Funding, VMware and Open-Source
A number of updates were revealed this week, and out of the ones in this roundup three of them involve VMware in one way or another. The first one, however, comes from Cloudability, and…
Google: The World’s Chauffer
If Google has its way, there’s no telling what will become of Driver’s Ed teachers and their classic advice: “You drive the car, don’t let the car drive you.” At this year’s Sun Valley conference,…