Designed to protect and safeguard your electronic gadgets and save time on the go by easily storing and finding everything you need. This travel organizer offers a secure storage space for cord management, laptop and computer accessories putting everything you need in one place. This organizer also gives you special space inside for credit cards, passports, also for boarding passes, smartphone, tickets and has many pockets where you can put coins, keys, USB, SIM card, earphones, and other small accessories. Give yourself or someone else the gift of stress-free travel. The travel cord organizer's typical list price of $30.99 has been reduced 48% to $15.99. See the discounted Travel Cord Organizer now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
U.S. and U.K. spy agencies have been monitoring in-flight mobile phone users for years, according to new revelations from the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.As early as 2012 the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was intercepting voice and data communications from commercial aircraft using the OnAir service to carry 2G mobile services over the Inmarsat satellite communications network. At the time, GCHQ did not have access to a rival in-flight mobile service provider, Aeromobile, French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The team behind the Apache Zeppelin open-source notebook for big data analytics visualization has renamed itself ZEPL and announced $4.1M in Series A funding.ZEPL, which swears a certain professional football organization had nothing to do with it ditching its former name (NFLabs), is one of numerous companies smelling blood in the water around Tableau, the $3.5 billion business intelligence and analytics software vendor that has stumbled financially in recent quarters and seen its stock price plummet accordingly. The pitch from ZEPL entering my email inbox read: "Is Open Source project eating Tableau's lunch?"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Samsung’s recall of Galaxy Note7 smartphones because of exploding batteries is far from complete with some users, for example, in Canada still not turning in their devices for a refund or exchange.The South Korean company has now decided to cut these phones from the network, adopting similar measures to those taken last month in New Zealand and earlier this month in Australia.The company said Wednesday that from Dec. 12 functional limitations on Note7 phones, including curbs on the battery charge, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disablement will be introduced in Canada.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
After more than half a decade in the making, ARM server chips should have struck gold by now, but they haven't. ARM servers were projected to be approaching a double-digit server market share, but they still are virtually non-existent.Keeping market realities in mind, Qualcomm earlier this year said it would take a wait-and-watch approach before making a splash with its ARM server chips. While ARM servers adoption has been poor, Qualcomm decided to go ahead and launch the chips.In the making for two years, Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 server chips have 48 cores and are now being sent as samples to companies. Volume shipments of the chips will start in the second half next year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a government probe into whether Russia may have interfered with the presidential election by hacking high-profile political targets. On Wednesday, two Democratic representatives unveiled legislation that proposes to form a 12-member bipartisan commission to investigate the electronic means Russia may have used to influence the U.S. election."Regardless of whether you voted for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or anyone else, Russia’s attacks on our election are an attempt to degrade our democracy," said Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, one of the sponsors of the bill.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Cisco this week this week announced the death of its Secure Access Control System – a package customers use to manage access to network resources.
Cisco said the last day customers can order the system is August 30, 2017. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available under the terms and conditions of customers' service contract the company said. The last date that Cisco Engineering will release any final software maintenance releases or bug fixes is Aug. 30, 2018. After this date, Cisco Engineering will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software, the company said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
From conferences around the world, to colleagues, customers and partners, I’m seeing firsthand that the industry is abuzz over serverless computing.Expectations are high and steadily growing for how this new architecture can revolutionize the way organizations approach development and innovation.Defining serverless
First, know that “serverless” itself is a bit of a misnomer. There are servers involved behind the scenes, of course, but as you’ll see, they’re abstracted in such a way that developers are free from having to address operational concerns and instead focus on the creativity of writing code.One way to think about the concepts supporting a serverless architecture is to look at them as a set of three layers that sit atop your existing compute, network and storage resources: fabric, framework and functions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Sometimes you really are on your own. And calling for directions isn’t feasible.It’s the same with many IoT systems. Centrally processing large volumes of sensor data slows decision making and increases bandwidth demand. Many decisions are better made close to the source.Which decisions should be made close to the network edge and which centrally? Where are the trade-offs? Which applications are best suited for local decision making? Three fog computing experts share some insights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is calling upon the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take action against “toys that spy” and violate federal privacy law. In particular, EPIC has issues with My Friend Cayla dolls and i-Que Robots which “subject young children to ongoing surveillance.”EPIC – along with Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, the Center for Digital Democracy, and the Consumers Union – are working “to ban these toys from the marketplace.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Ping-pong tables and happy hours are one way to lure new hires, but Outreach is taking a different approach. The sales analytics startup is boosting the parental perks it offers employees as it strives to build a diverse workforce in the competitive Seattle market.The tech startup’s most noteworthy new perks are designed to help parents make the transition back to work after a baby’s arrival. Most precious is the gift of sleep: Outreach will pay for a night nurse, Monday through Friday, for eight weeks following a parent’s return to work. It also will pick up the tab for dinner delivery, two nights per week for eight weeks. And during the eight-week, back-to-work transition time, new parents can split their time between working in the office and working at home.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Get 14% off the highly rated M8 all-in-one world travel power adapter from Orei, plus an additional 15% when you check the "apply coupon" box on Amazon right now. This gadget features built-in sliders that create the right adapter for any country you find yourself in. It's all self-contained -- no additional parts to attach or keep track of. As a bonus, they've included dual-USB ports to keep your devices juiced up as well. The M8 adapter averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 2,200 people (read reviews). Its typical list price of $28.99 has been reduced 14% to $24.99, but if you click the "Apply Coupon" button, you'll activate an additional 15% discount on the already discounted price, putting it at just over $21. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Before you chuck that CD ROM, soda can or plastic bottle, exercise your kids imagination with this kit from OWI that turns your recyclables into a solar-powered robot, race car, boat, or whatever they can dream up with this kit full of gears, motors, a solar panel and more. The Super Solar Recycler Kit is powered completely by natural light so you never have to worry about batteries. It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, where its typical list price of $24.99 has been reduced 36% to just $16.05. See the discounted OWI Solar Recycling Kit now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Slack and Google have vastly deepened their partnership roughly a month after Microsoft announced its competitor to the popular enterprise chat service.Wednesday saw the announcement of several new features aimed at making G Suite, Google’s set of productivity software and services, more useful to people who use Slack. The functionality resulting from the partnership will make it easier to share and work on files stored in Google Drive using Slack.Slack and Google were early partners during the lifecycle of the chat service which gives business users a set of rooms where they can discuss work, share files and more. Microsoft recently announced Teams, a similar service integrated into Office 365 that’s currently in beta.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
I wouldn’t wish a ransomware attack on anyone. A particularly destructive form of malware, ransomware has made a name for itself this year as one of the internet’s top threats. A recent survey revealed that half of companies had responded to a ransomware attack, with 85 percent reporting three or more. If it locks down your personal computer, it’s a royal pain. But if it gets onto a network drive at your work, that pain is multiplied by the number of employees and more.Systematically locking down every computer on the network, ransomware puts your entire workforce out of work and sends your IT guys to the mats trying to find the money to pay the ransom or the backups to bring the network back online. Long story short: Ransomware is bad news!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The monthly Android security update released this week fixes the serious Dirty COW privilege escalation attack that can allow malicious apps to take full control of devices.Dirty COW (copy-on-write) is a privilege escalation vulnerability that has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years and is already being exploited in the wild. It affects Android because the mobile OS is based on Linux, but it was initially believed that the SELinux security policies enforced by default in Android provided some mitigation against the attack.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Two real-life, practical, semi-autonomous vehicle launches next year are an indication that the self-driving car is really happening.Audi is expected to make its up-to-35-mph hands-free driving system available late next year in some 2018 vehicles.And Volvo will start testing Drive Me, an autopilot that will introduce 100 Swedish XC90 owners to autonomous driving, according to an Automotive News supplement produced for the Los Angeles Auto Show last month.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft researchers have shared their annual predictions of what they believe will be the big advancements in technology within the next 10 years. The predictions were made by 17 different researchers at the company, covering 10 different areas.Predictions are always a dicey thing. Stewart Alsop will never live down his prediction that "the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996." Twenty years later, IBM still sells its z Series mainframe. Oops. Still, the Microsoft wizards have some interesting predictions. And for this year's list, Microsoft's prognosticators are all women. Microsoft is celebrating Computer Science Education Week around the globe, with special emphasis on women and girls, given the fact women account for only 20 percent of computer science graduates in 34 of the countries which are members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yet are half the population. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Since October, millions of internet users have been exposed to malicious code served from the pixels in tainted banner ads meant to install Trojans and spyware, according to security firm ESET.The attack campaign, called Stegano, has been spreading from malicious ads in a “number of reputable news websites,” ESET said in a Tuesday blog post. It’s been preying on Internet Explorer users by scanning for vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and then exploiting them.The attack is designed to infect victims with malware that can steal email password credentials through its keylogging and screenshot grabbing features, among others.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Heavy duty, compact and tough as nails makes the Kangora tactical torch perfect for hunting, camping or your next search and rescue mission. An ultra Bright zoomable 300 Lumens LED illuminates up to 600 feet. Features high, low, and strobe modes and a sturdy belt clip. Operates off a single AA battery. Right now Amazon is selling a pack of 5 for the discounted price of $23.99.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here