Monthly Archives: August 2017
Microsoft Word’s New Learning Tools Sharpens Students’ Reading Skills
Schools with Office 365 for Education accounts now have at their disposal more technology tools that can help students write better.Just in time for...
Google Purges More Than 300 WireX DDoS Botnet Apps from Play Store
Today’s topics include Google's quick move to purge more than 300 malicious Play Store apps that were launching distributed denial of service attacks; a...
VMware Builds Out Its Security Story Through Cloud Services
LAS VEGAS—Since it was founded in 1998, VMware has essentially enabled security of virtual machines and applications from the outside-in, mostly by relying on...
Alexa-Cortana Deal to Boost AI and Voice-Enabled Commerce Markets
The Aug. 30 announcement by Microsoft and Amazon that they will enable their respective virtual assistant technologies, Cortana and Alexa, to talk to one...
Facebook Developers Push Out New Tools at @Scale Event
Facebook keeps adding new users (2.01 billion by last count), building new data centers (it’s now up to 10) and its desktop and mobile...
‘Net Neutrality’ Comment System Failed to Screen Out Phony Messages
A study of 21.8 million comments submitted to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on the Trump administration’s plan to remove regulations from cable, telecom...
Box Shows 28 Percent Revenue Growth, But Profit Still Elusive
When Aaron Levie founded Box 12 years ago, he instinctively knew that lots of people and companies were going to want to store their...
Instagram API Vulnerability Exposes High-Profile User Information
Instagram publicly admitted on Aug. 30 that an attacker was able to gain unauthorized access to a small amount of user information. The social...
Quiet VMworld 2017 Focuses on Security, Building Cloud Infrastructure
Quiet VMworld 2017 Focuses on Security, Building Cloud Infrastructure
Let's face it—not all IT conferences are going to be chock full with news every year,...
Payment Security Compliance Improving, Verizon Security Report Finds
Compliance with security regulations doesn't always mean that an organization won't be breached, but according to Verizon, compliance does often lead to better security...