IoT goes to work Image by Stephen Lawson Along with all the hype about phones and 5G networks, Mobile World Congress 2017 was also a showcase for the internet of things, including IoT gear for enterprise and government use. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Source:…
Cisco and Docker today announced an expanded partnership that will see further integration of container management software from Docker with infrastructure equipment. Cisco also released a 1.0 version of an open source container networking project named Contiv. +More on Network World: 5 Lessons from Amazon’s S3 Cloud blunder – and how to protect yourself from…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has revamped its existing technology services unit to focus on helping customers adopt emerging technologies, including cloud computing, the internet of things, and big data. HPE’s new Pointnext technology services division, announced Thursday, is designed to help businesses speed up their adoption of several technologies, also including hybrid IT services and analytics, the…
Google has expanded its Safe Browsing service, allowing Google Chrome on macOS to better protect users from programs that locally inject ads into web pages or that change the browser’s home page and search settings. The Safe Browsing service is used by Google’s search engine, as well as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to block…
It might not be a problem that affects us all that often, but we’ve all experienced it. Someone emails you a message asking if you got that PDF or picture they sent over. You search through your inbox, trash, and spam folders only to discover it’s not there. The reason? It never went through because…
The challenges of networking on college campuses can be serious business, particularly if, like the University of Washington, you’ve got to worry about not one but three distinct campuses. And, as Washington’s director of mobile communications David Morton told Network World Wednesday at Aruba Atmosphere 2017, that challenge isn’t limited to those campuses. +ALSO ON…
The HyperApp JavaScript library serves as mechanism for building web applications while using a functional programming paradigm and stateless components. Accessible via NPM, open source Hyperact has no dependencies, author Jorge Bucaran said. It’s currently in a beta stage of development with version 0.6.0, although the API is not going to change. [ Use JavaScript…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has halted new rules that would require high-speed internet providers to take ‘reasonable’ steps to protect customer data. In a 2-1 vote that went along party lines, the FCC voted Wednesday to stay temporarily one part of privacy rules passed in October that would give consumers the right to decide…
If your company has experienced a data breach, it’s probably a good idea to thoroughly investigate it promptly. Unfortunately, Yahoo didn’t, according to a new internal investigation. The internet pioneer, which reported a massive data breach involving 500 million user accounts in September, actually knew an intrusion had occurred back in 2014, but allegedly botched…
More than 130 Android apps on the Google Play store have been found to contain malicious coding, possibly because the developers were using infected computers, according to security researchers. The 132 apps were found generating hidden iframes, or an HTML document embedded inside a webpage, linking to two domains that have hosted malware, according to…