Two conferences 6,000 miles apart this week have set the agenda in the mobile and security industries for the year ahead. Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the most important gathering in the wireless industry all year while the RSA Conference in San Francisco is the table setter for all...
Last year, I was slated to attend the first O'Reilly Strata Conference, but the 2011 Snowpocalypse intervened and said "no flights for you, St. Louis." Not only did I miss the inaugural Strata Conference, but it seems like I missed out on all the hype and irrational exuberance for big...
The company is called CrowdStrike (not "CloudStrike"), and most folks attending the NSA session featuring the company Wednesday morning had never heard of it. That wasn't why they were there. The man behind CrowdStrike is George Kurtz, the former chief technology officer of McAfee, and the man widely credited with...
At the Strata Jumpstart session on Tuesday, Diego Saenz of Data Driven CEO made the case for three skills that are must haves for CEOs to become "data driven."Much of Saenz's talk focused on one specific data-driven CEO: Robert McDonald of Procter and Gamble (P&G).He Is the Very Model of...
It's not the "Big Data" we usually talk about, which refers more to the size of the data than of the company behind the management tool. It's the term Bruce Schneier uses to refer to the industry that has evolved around data as a commodity, the way the energy industry...
"You can't always get what you want" is literally the theme of this year's RSA Security conference in San Francisco. "With increased speed and cunning, hackers are taking advantage of the openness of today's infrastructures," said EMC's executive vice president Art Coviello, Jr. And exacerbating the problem, he said, is...
"Whose problem is this? Whose problem is a vulnerability in an app? Is it the app developers? Is it the service provider of the operating system? Or is it the distribution center of the application?"These aren't questions presented to an expert panel by attendees at the Cloud Security Alliance Summit...
Nokia have now started the much awaited PR 1.2 rollout for the Nokia N9. Weighing it at a Whopping 283.1Mb this is going to take a slight while to download. The version number is PR1.2 30.2012.07-1. This update should bring: Support for video calls. App folders on the...
In a simultaneous announcement at the RSA security conference in San Francisco and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday afternoon, VMware Chief Technology Officer Dr. Stephen Herrod made two extraordinary revelations. One is that his company is working on a technology that would give businesses with "BYOD" policies for their...
While some decry the decline of the traditional music industry, we think it's hard not to get excited about the possibilities the future holds. It's true that major label revenue has dropped off a cliff over the last decade, but a whole new ecosystem is emerging. Today, music is easier...
Remember in 2003, when the CAN SPAM Act was signed into law, how spam just stopped overnight? Yeah, me neither. Just as CAN SPAM did little to curb spam, having Google and Microsoft sign on to Do Not Track (DNT) still leaves a lot to be desired.Google and others signing...
It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces that Hong Kong has been selected as the venue of our upcoming GNOME.Asia 2012. GNOME.Asia 2012 follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a...
Staying true to its predecessor "MeeGo", the first Tizen Conference has been announced for May 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. This is the same venue that the MeeGo Conference took place in May 23-25 2011. So now the call for papers and registration has started...
Facebook users, do you "like" this?Today Facebook launched 12 media apps for Timeline, joining social news apps such as Yahoo!, Washington Post Social Reader, Digg Social Reader and The Guardian's social news app. This announcement comes shortly after Facebook launched 60 social apps that focused mostly on cooking, eating, travel,...
Katy Perry's got nothing on Nicki Minaj. At the 2012 Grammys, Perry rolled on-stage with a blue wig and her hit song "E.T.", then abruptly transitioned into "Part of Me," which pop news sources have attributed to her break-up with Russell Brand. (There are lines like "So you can keep...
Catching up to Chrome is just part of the Firefox roadmap for 2012. Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has updated the strategy and roadmap for desktop Firefox in 2012. While the Mozilla folks have several original ideas and goals, there's a lot in the first half of the 2012 roadmap that looks...
Please note that the schedule is still fluid and will change as speakers and sessions are finalized. Wednesday, February 15th All Keynote Presentations Are In Grand Ballroom Champagne Bordeaux Veranda 8:00am Registration 9:00am The Kernel Report Jon Corbet, Editor at LWN.net 10:00am Break 10:30am Saving the Power Consumption of...
2012 started with a flourish of new apps across iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The holiday season is the busiest time of year for app publishers but the follow up in January was equally impressive. That is a testament to the growing app ecosystem and the number of developers starting...
2012 started with a flourish of new apps across iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The holiday season is the busiest time of year for app publishers but the follow up in January was equally impressive. That is a testament to the growing app ecosystem and the number of developers starting...
This year's Super Bowl will be more social than ever before. With the rise of social TV and the first-ever 2,800-square-foot social media command center, fans who have trekked down to Indianapolis and people at Super Bowl parties across the country can now opt to have a super-connected experience. This...
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