EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci to Step Down; Gelsinger or Goulden to Succeed
In news that came as a bit of a surprise for those who closely follow EMC’s Joe Tucci, news is making the rounds the last couple of weeks in the pages of Bloomberg and…
G+, Twitter and Tumblr are Biggest Losers
By Jeff Nolan
Like a lot of my peers I have been immersed in Google Plus for the last week and I have to give credit to Google for really getting this one right. The sharing mechanism…
Turkey Hit by Further Anonymous Hacks and Data Leaks
By Kyt Dotson
Turkey is a favorite target for the Anonymous hactivist collective due to the anti-censorship skein running through their tapestry of political activism. The country has been caught up in numerous problems involving suppression of…
Millennial Media May Be a Good Buy for Apple
Apple’s iAd mobile marketing platform is certainly not the company’s biggest money maker, but the consumer electronics giant is still trying to expand its foothold in a market, which is expected to be worth…
Copyright Alerts: The Solution To End Piracy?
Software, movies, music, applications, games… You name it, and you can find it on the web, oftentimes for free. You’d think that in this day and age, big companies earn gazillions of dollars with…
IPv6 Gets Complicated as Two Internets Emerge
World IPv6 Day, a test spanning 24 hours through which over 400 major web companies severed content via IPv6, was held exactly one month ago. It was lead by Yahoo, Google, VMware and other…
Cybersecurity Scholar Warns How Private E-mail in the Cloud Isn’t So Private After All
By Kyt Dotson
If you watch way too much Law & Order, CSI:, and other crime shows on TV like I do you’ve already encountered numerous story lines that hinge on investigators getting their hands on a…
QLogic: Soon to Announce Q1 Fiscal Year 2012
Over the past few months, QLogic has been on a roll. Though the company is mostly known for fibre and infrastructure, they turned heads when they came up with the convergence of cloud computing…
LulzSec Legacy: Hackers Released 17k E-mails and Passwords
Almost 17,000 e-mails and passwords were released by the Connexion Hack Team, which they stated to have acquired randomly. The group did not release information indicating from which sites they obtained their list. Dear Internetz, We are…
Amazon Invests in Big Data Startup, ParAccel Pushes On
By Robert Manto
ParAccel Inc., one of the emerging companies in big data analysis, announced the closure of its Series E funding round with Amazon joining in with other ParAccel investors – Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures,…