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Place Your Bets: Online Gambling is About to Go Mainstream
Online gambling is at once thrilling and terrifying, almost like bungee jumping into a volcano, only less hot (and generally less life-threatening). T…
Read MoreThe Race is On: Apple Working on a Self-Driving Car
While Google's self-driving car project is known far and wide, a new development in this space ranks on the "should have seen it coming" list, though …
Read MoreGoogle's Android Platform Gets Stagefright, But It's Safer Than You Might Think
A number of high-severity cyber-vulnerabilities have been uncovered in the Android platform recently, not the least of which is the Stagefright bug, w…
Read MoreSamsung Packs Exciting New Features into Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ at Unpacked 2015
Unpacked may actually be the antithesis of what Samsung has done with each of its product unveilings of late. Rather, the mobile giant continues to pa…
Read MoreThe 1-2-3s of Google's ABCs: How Will Alphabet Affect You?
While this may seem to be of shock to many, Google claims this as their Alpha-BET, as they have confidence in making what they have "cleaner and more …
Read MoreBuilding a Culture of Tech Security Can Protect Businesses
The recent prison escape of drug lord Joaquin Guzman, better known as El Chapo, is a testament to the power of technology within criminal organization…
Read MoreUK Comms Spending Finally Rises, But There's Trouble in Paradise
After years of recession-era realities hamstringing household budgets, spending on communications services has bounced back in the UK, rising for the …
Read MoreCan Google Spell Innovation with Alphabet?
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page first went public with Google 11 years ago (only 11 years ago!), they said at the time that the company would devote i…
Read MoreRecreating Reality with Corel's New Tools
These latest products from Corel are particularly good with difficult items to deal with realistically like hair, fire, fir, smoke and magic. Yes I sa…
Read MoreVerizon Wireless Eliminates 2-Year Contract Model
Verizon Wireless is breaking with the business model pack, and in a rather astounding way: The carrier is eliminating the whole sign-a-two-year-contra…
Read MoreBlack Hat Drives Connected Car Hacking Awareness
At the close of 2014, Gartner forecast that 4.9 billion connected things will be in use this year, up 30 percent from last year, and will reach 25 bil…
Read MoreApple Preps for Future-Thinking Initiatives
Apple has been busy lately, positioning for breaking new ground on a couple of different fronts-and in one case, quite literally. The computing darlin…
Read MoreWindows 10 Update Brings New Opportunity for Ransomware
The Windows 10 upgrade has prompted plenty of reaction from the computing community, with some eager to switch and others prepared to wait as long as …
Read MoreThree Amazing Personal Devices That Could Displace the iPhone
Much as Apple took out firms like Nokia, Palm, and BlackBerry that once dominated this space, Apple itself is vulnerable to the same kind of innovatio…
Read MoreWorldwide Tablet Market Declines as Apple, Samsung Lose Steam
The worldwide tablet market declined 7 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2015. According to preliminary data from the International Data…
Read MoreAT&T Launches First Joint DirecTV Bundle, with Wireless
AT&T is making good on its $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV with its first joint service offering: Duo-play packages that bundle satellite TV and ot…
Read MoreSouthern Tech Scene Can't be Ignored
Austin, Boston, Silicon Valley, and Seattle are all well-known hubs for technology and startups-less so, southern cities with maybe the exception of A…
Read MoreGoogle says Encryption Keys are in the Ignition
It has been such a wild few days in the cyber security area with all of the hacks, data breaches, exposures by security folks that all Android and wea…
Read MoreChattanooga Fiber Network Triple Play: Smart Grid, Gigabit, Green Energy
Chattanooga is unique for a gigabit class network that covers the entire community, serving over 150,000 homes and businesses. Its advantages go far b…
Read MoreStrategy Analytics: Shakeups Abound in the Tablet Market
While the tablet market is something of a lesser phenomenon compared to the smartphone market, there's still quite a bit happening. A new report from …
Read MoreChattanooga: Much More than GigCity
It is far too simple to say Chattanooga's high-speed fiber optic network is the cornerstone to the city's future growth. While city leaders and operat…
Read MoreTaking a Look into Windows 10
On July 29, 2015 the long awaited release of Windows 10 arrived. You may have noticed that Microsoft went from version 8.1 to Windows 10, which is due…
Read MoreWindows 10: One Giant Step into the Future
This is Windows 10 launch week and things are going pretty well. Unlike some rumors to the contrary, the OEMs are ready with preloads and so far, the …
Read MoreCyberattacks on OPM, Anthem and United Airlines are Linked
The bad news on the cyberattack front got a whole lot worse with a story from Bloomberg by reporters Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson that revealed …
Read MoreComings & Goings: Citrix CEO Steps Down as Company Gears for an Overhaul
There appears to be a bit of shakeup going on over at Citrix, the venerable distributed computing company. Long-time Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has ann…
Read MoreThree Reasons Passwords Are Here to Stay
Siber Systems explains why someday passwords will be a thing of the past, but not any time soon.
Read MoreWheelings & Dealings: Visa Joins Amex with Giant Investment in Payment Startup Stripe
Payment startup company Stripe has scored a whopping round of funding, with Visa taking a major interest in the company's technology. The funding amou…
Read MoreGoogle Removing Google Plus Requirements
When Google first revealed its answer to social media giants Facebook and Twitter in 2011, it was met largely with a fizzle. With membership in Google…
Read MoreUS Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Validates Class Action Suit Over Data Breach
Since what follows is about legal matters, let me start with the disclosure that I am not a lawyer, have no legal training and this is not an attempt …
Read MoreThe Do's and Don'ts of Viral Content Promotion
Viral content promotion is the word we use to describe content that just simply takes off on its own. It creates a brand out of nothing and can quickl…
Read MoreWindows 10: Z Generation is When Everything Will Change.
I started looking at the new Windows 10 ads and it got me thinking about how much change we will have seen that the next generation of Windows users w…
Read MoreAT&T-DirecTV Merger May Benefit Consumers in a Big Way
The FCC is about to approve a $49 billion merger between AT&T and DirecTV, the No. 1 US satellite TV provider, and if the conditions that the commissi…
Read MoreAT&T, House of Cards and Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is green lighting AT&T's $49 billion takeover of DirecTV, in exchange for promises to abide by stricter Ne…
Read MoreSpaceX Supply Flight Lost Due to Strut Failure
The June 28, 2015 loss of a SpaceX Falcon 9 and its Dragon supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was most likely due to the failure …
Read MoreBusinesses Have to Get Serious About Security
It should be a simple prioritization. In light of the increasing number of security breaches across industries, security should find itself at the top…
Read MoreArbor Networks: Average DDoS Attack Size Increasing
Data breaches probably rightfully get the headlines. However, it is hard to argue that in terms of damage to business "in-the-moment" and potentially …
Read MoreConstant Connectivity: Are You Addicted to Mobile?
When's the last time you turned off your cellphone? I mean literally powered down on purpose, not because it died from a low battery. If you're like m…
Read MoreHackers Gain Access to 37 Million Records from AshleyMadison.com
AshleyMadison.com, the infamous online dating site targeting married adults who are looking to have an affair, found itself this morning the subject o…
Read MoreSymantec, Frost Data to Fund Cybersecurity Tech Incubator
Symantec and Frost Data Capital have teamed up to start a tech incubator that is meant to fuel innovation in cybersecurity, especially when it comes t…
Read MoreDarkode, the Dark Web Haven, Shut Down by the Feds, Europol
A coordinated effort by law enforcement globally has taken down one of the baddest, most notorious hacker forums on the so-called "Dark Web": the Dark…
Read MoreThe End to Moore's Law in Sight
Back in 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of components in an integrated circuit would double every year. He revised his b…
Read More5G Gets Underway for Real with Industry Buy-In and Research
The ability to offer super-fast and reliable connectivity for use cases such as remote control of robots, and support for billions of sensors and thin…
Read MoreIntel Earnings Beat Estimates Thanks to Data Center and IoT Growth
Way back in 1971 the Monty Python comedy group put out an anthology film based on their then hit TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus called, "And N…
Read MoreNetflix Beats the Street on Subscriber Adds, But Margins Worsen
Netflix surprised investors with a better-than-expected addition of 3.28 million streaming subscribers for the second quarter, translating to revenue …
Read MoreDaily Fantasy Sports Steal the Spotlight
Anyone who has played fantasy baseball knows it is a long season littered with peaks and valleys of performance, which ends in apathy, crushing defeat…
Read MoreHow Tech is Disrupting China and India
The number of tech companies doing well and being launched is greater than at any time in history. Today, Facebook crossed the $250 billion dollar val…
Read MoreSecurity Flaws in Adobe Flash Force its Shutdown on Firefox & Chrome
For anyone out there who's found that Flash doesn't work like it should on Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome browsers, there's a backhanded bit of…
Read MoreWindows 10 Launch: This Will be One for the Record Books
Windows launches have always been a mixed bag for me. I started with Windows 95, which set the bar for an event, but as I stepped off the plane coming…
Read MoreComcast Announces Internet TV Service
The younger generation of television viewers has already begun to stray away from cable television, opting instead for streaming video services online…
Read MoreConsumers Want Password Alternatives for Internet Security
There was a time when it was important to have a good password for logging on to your work server. I would set up systems that required a new password…
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