8 years ago054Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a new security tool for cloud customers, part of a slew of product announcements this week designed to fend off competition from Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and others in the fast-growing cloud computing market.
Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels announced Amazon Shield, new layers of...
8 years ago043Contractors working on Tesla's solar manufacturing plant in Buffalo, New York are receiving payments late due to corruption charges filed against Buffalo contractor LPCiminelli.
The contractors have not been paid for work done between July and through the Fall, the Buffalo News first reported. Howard Zemsky, the president of Empire...
8 years ago046QUEBEC CITY, Quebec--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elmo Solutions announces a strategic partnership agreement with Siemens (https://www.siemens.com/). Under the agreement, the leader in manufacturing data integration will introduce a connector for Agni Link (http://elmosolutions.com/agnilink/), its live, bidirectional CAD/PDM/PLM-ERP data integration...
8 years ago045Last month, the entire internet went down for a few hours. At least that’s what one of the biggest denial-of-service attacks in recent memory felt like to a lot of people. Sites from Netflix, Spotify, and Reddit to The New York Times and, yes, even WIRED went dark.
The massive outage was the result of an attack on an Internet...
8 years ago043Microsoft this week introduced Outlook Customer Manager, a new cloud-based tool that aims to help its small businesses clients stay on top of their customer relationships.
The new service organizes everything from emails to meeting invitations, call logs, notes, tasks, files and other essential items.
It comes just four months...
8 years ago040Personally, I’m amazed at the technology we have available to us. It’s astounding to have the power to retrieve almost any information and communicate in a thousand different ways using a device that fits in your pocket.
There’s always something new on the horizon, and we can’t help but wait and wonder what technological...
8 years ago046Summary
Tech had a bumpy ride so far, but looking at year to date returns the sector is among the top-performing groups.
Sales of internet software and wireless services were up 17.5% and 6.9% respectively in the last quarter from a year earlier, well above just-over 2% increase in general retail sales.
Even though XLK, IYW,...
8 years ago041Businesses are increasingly exposed to data breaches as cyber criminals relentlessly try to exploit their networks. All too often these businesses turn to cyber security insurance, thinking it will be an easy way to safeguard against any financial loss that they may suffer after a cyber attack.
Companies reach the erroneous conclusion...
8 years ago042LightInTheBox Holding Co., Ltd.(NYSE: LITB) ("LightInTheBox" or the "Company"), a global online retail company that delivers products directly to consumers around the world, today announced that it has launched a cloud-based enterprise resource planning ("ERP") Software-As-A-Service ("SaaS") solution for online and offline distribution...
8 years ago050NetSuite Inc. shareholders endorsed Oracle Corp.’s bid for the software provider, clearing the path for the $9 billion acquisition after weeks of conflict between a large investor and executives over the price tag.
The deal received approval from 53 percent, or 21.78 million shares, of NetSuite stockholders that were eligible to...
8 years ago052The Alphabet division that operates Google Fiber is laying off or reassigning about nine percent of its staff as well as "pausing" or ending fiber operations in 10 cities where it hadn't yet fully committed to building. In an 11th city, San Francisco, the ISP has pulled back from a fiber deployment that was previously described as...
8 years ago056Amazon is reportedly considering offering home Internet service in Europe. However, the company would probably not do so in the United States because US law doesn't guarantee wholesale access to existing networks.
Amazon hasn't commented publicly on the topic, which was raised today in a report by The Information (subscription...