Countries across the Middle East are sans Internet connections due to a cable break on Wednesday. Two lessons: The Internet in some areas lack redundancy and telecommunications infrastructure is weak. And companies that outsource customer service operations offshore need to plan ahead.
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology on Wednesday formed an emergency task force […]
The majority of Internet and international telephone traffic travels goes under the sea. When two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were cut (most likely by ship anchors) on Wednesday, Internet connectivity in the Middle East and in parts of Asia cratered.
According to reports, as much as 70 percent of Egypt’s Internet connectivity was […]
Symantec issued its second annual report on IT risk management. Key findings from “IT Risk Management Report” that surveyed 405 IT professionals include:
IT professionals are adopting a more balanced, less security-centric view of IT risk—more of them now see availability risk as critical or serious than any other element.
Compliance risk is more than […]
Amazon’s fourth quarter results had a little bit of everything for its various observers: Sales were impressive and the outlook wasn’t bad, but worries about profit margins are worrisome. But amid all the talk about consumer demand, growth abroad and adding third party sellers to Amazon’s platform the “other” line on the company’s breakdown of […]
Amazon.com’s march into digital distribution of content continues–this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million.
In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said it will acquire Audible, which provides digital spoken word content–audio versions of books, newspapers and other programming. Audible offers more than 80,000 programs.
If you couple Audible with Amazon’s march into DRM-free music […]
Notable headlines:
George Ou: Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked
Robin Harris: The data center on your desktop
Janice Chen@PMA: Live from Las Vegas: Sony announces two more DSLRs under $900
David Morgenstern: Is Apple under attack from a whisper campaign? Jason O’Grady: Apple TV update delayed two weeks
Photos: Vista’s first year
Dan Farber@Demo: PCMobilizr: Access your PC from a […]
Rove Mobile introduced PCMobilizr, which lets users have complete access to the files and applications on their home and office PCs. With the PC becoming a peripheral to smartphones (especially those with bright, big screens), PCMobilizr makes a lot of sense. It provides have access to the screen of your desktop and control of the […]
Eyealike, which developed software for facial recognition and image detection, is tackling the video copyright infringement problem. Eyealike Copyright creates digital fingerprints, consisting of visual cues from motion, faces, histograms and colors. The fingerprints are based a set of key frames, which are algorithmically chosen, according to CTO Imad Zoghlami.
Videos from services such as YouTube […]
Demo 08 had its share of video-oriented applications, but two stood out because they deal with the non-creative side–managing deployment and analyzing the performance of video content.
Visible Measures introduced VisibleSuite, which measures the in-stream video viewing behavior of Web audiences. The hosted service captures viewer interactions, tracking play, pause, rewinds, forward and other functions such […]
iLeonardo (not to be confused with anything from Apple) is a social utility that connects people and their collections of information on the Web. It’s part shared bookmarking and social network, and part of the growing number of Web sites that are leveraging the wisdom of the community.
Introduced at Demo 08, iLeonardo collection repository is […]
Countries across the Middle East are sans Internet connections due to a cable break on Wednesday. Two lessons: The Internet in some areas lack redundancy and telecommunications infrastructure is weak. And companies that outsource customer service operations offshore need to plan ahead.
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology on Wednesday formed an emergency task force […]
The majority of Internet and international telephone traffic travels goes under the sea. When two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were cut (most likely by ship anchors) on Wednesday, Internet connectivity in the Middle East and in parts of Asia cratered.
According to reports, as much as 70 percent of Egypt’s Internet connectivity was […]
Symantec issued its second annual report on IT risk management. Key findings from “IT Risk Management Report” that surveyed 405 IT professionals include:
IT professionals are adopting a more balanced, less security-centric view of IT risk—more of them now see availability risk as critical or serious than any other element.
Compliance risk is more than […]
Amazon’s fourth quarter results had a little bit of everything for its various observers: Sales were impressive and the outlook wasn’t bad, but worries about profit margins are worrisome. But amid all the talk about consumer demand, growth abroad and adding third party sellers to Amazon’s platform the “other” line on the company’s breakdown of […]
Amazon.com’s march into digital distribution of content continues–this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million.
In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said it will acquire Audible, which provides digital spoken word content–audio versions of books, newspapers and other programming. Audible offers more than 80,000 programs.
If you couple Audible with Amazon’s march into DRM-free music […]
