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| Open up your morning New York Times or Wall Street Journal and you may see the latest ad from a cloud computing company praising the virtues of their services. It's the latest push by some vendors, including VMware, IBM and Pivotal, and it's coming with some snarky fallout too. Technology companies have long taken to traditional media outlets to pitch their products, but in recent weeks the back and... READ MORE |
| When Unisys CISO John Frymier came in to work on Friday, Sept. 6, the phones were ringing, and continued to ring all day. Customers were panicking over the news headlines of the day before. READ MORE |
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| Compass-EOS, a start-up shipping a silicon photonics-based router, this week closed a $42 million round of funding with the help of existing investor Cisco. Other existing vendors participating in the latest round include Comcast Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, Benchmark Capital, Northbridge Venture Partners and Marker LLC. READ MORE |
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| Over the weekend, NRC Handelsblad, a Dutch newspaper, reported that the NSA has infected more than 50,000 networks with malware globally. This report was followed by one in the New York Times, detailing the lengths the NSA is willing to go to in order to obtain more power. READ MORE |
| Apple has acquired PrimeSense, a developer of 3-D sensors that allow devices to respond to the environment in three dimensions. READ MORE |
| Bitcoin Internet Payment Services, a Denmark-based exchange billing itself as Europe's biggest, was robbed of bitcoins worth more than $1 million in a theft that took place over the course of the past several days. READ MORE |
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