As the business world increasingly turns to mobile devices and cloud-based file-sharing services to store or collaborate on important documents, the amount of information that’s falling into the wrong hands keeps climbing. The numbers tell the tale: 90% of organizations had a leak of sensitive or confidential information over the past year. That’s one...
The problem is not new. One way or another, people have to validate their identities. I am trying to enter a building or a Web service that only Joe Smith should have access to, I need to offer evidence that I am, indeed, Joe Smith. For decades, authentication has required cards and passwords. In...
Norwegian browser maker Opera has scored another media deal that sees it link up with Germany’s Dune to power the company’s set-top boxes and media devices using its Smart TV platform, according to an announcement made today. Opera, which recently revealed that its mobile user base grew 50 percent to hit 200 million active users...
The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is looking into suspected insider trading of individuals and institutions that may have taken place ahead of the public announcement of the merger between Chinese video giants Youku and Tudou earlier this year. However, the new Youku Tudou Inc., which completed the deal last week, says that...
Tier 3 says its new cloud management tools will give customers more precise control of their workloads and help them keep a lid on server sprawl. Just because companies want to offload some compute tasks to third-party providers, doesn’t mean they don’t want precise management of those jobs or a way to track and...
“Nobody has nailed ‘social travel’ yet, but someone will eventually,” Tripbirds co-founder Ted Valentin told me a few months ago. Last March, the company unveiled its social travel planning Web app in public beta, hoping to entice travelers worldwide to sign up and start planning trips based on recommendations they received from their friends...
When I interviewed Tripbirds co-founder Ted Valentin before the social travel recommendation site’s launch in March, he told me that hotel bookings formed the core of Tripbirds’ revenue-generation model. “If we can nail hotel recommendations, you don’t have to do more to have a valuable business,” he said. Now, Tripbirds is taking this idea to heart:...
As streams of information become more popular on the Web, we need better ways to consume and manage them. Apps that allow you to aggregate content from different sources – Twitter, Facebook, blogs, news websites and more – may become very popular. That’s if they can overcome the increasingly walled gardens of Facebook and...