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Health Care’s Future: It’s About the Data

May 15, 2014 enews

Two unrelated but insight-producing experiences came together for me during a recent spring break vacation with my family in Florida. First was my daily visit to my favorite eatery, the SUGARCANE raw bar grill. The waiters have come to know my preferences, including my favorite table, drink and time of arrival. During spring break, they took it to another level. I showed up at the usual time and saw my favorite drink and soup served at my favorite table prior to my arrival. This kind of service is going beyond…

Visionary Check Point Research Reveals Massive Increase in New and Unknown Malware on Enterprise Networks

May 15, 2014 enews

Check Point 2014 Security Report Details Threat Trends Pulled From Over 9,000 Security Gateways Deployed Across Enterprise Organizations Globally San Carlos, CA – Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today issued its 2014 Security Report, the company’s second annual report uncovering the major threat trends that impacted organizations across the world. For a full copy of this year’s Security Report, visit: http://www.checkpoint.com/securityreport. In a world of ever-changing cyber threats, organizations must understand the nature of the latest exploits, and how their networks are potentially impacted.…

Dropbox for Business sales push overshadowed by vulnerability

May 15, 2014 enews

The week in cloud: Shared-link vulnerability overshadows Dropbox for Business push; Eucalyptus updates private cloud and Oracle v. Google reverberates. Last week, Dropbox wanted its news to be about its growing sales presence abroad — it’s expanding the partner channel for Dropbox for Business to the European Union, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. But that plan went sideways when news surfaced (thanks to rival Intralinks) of a vulnerability in the way Dropbox handled live URLs. In an email to reporters, an Intralinks spokeswoman said the issue surfaced in a “routine Google Adwords campaign” when referral searches led…

Mobistar goes live in Brussels with 4G

May 15, 2014 enews

Brussels – 14 May 2014. – Today, telecom operator Mobistar is officially launching its 4G network throughout the territory of all 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region. Mobistar guarantees an outdoor coverage of 96 %. In addition, Mobistar is also offering in Brussels a significant coverage of 53 % inside buildings. Mobistar confirms herewith its strategy of officially opening the 4G network in new cities only when an indoor coverage of more than 50 % can be guaranteed. The quality of the 4G network in the Brussels-Capital Region will progressively…

The REAL Deal with BYOD

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

During my visits with customers talking about end user computing (EUC) we will inevitably talk about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD is the idea that you can allow your user community (whether all or some subset), to bring their OWN device for use at the workplace. For example, EMC issued me a laptop and a mobile device, nevertheless, I also have my personal Kindle Fire HDX and the Dell Venue Pro 8 that I am writing this article on right now. Those personal devices have access to EMC email and…

How to Succeed in a World With Over 1 Billion Websites

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Back in the day Back in the 1990s when I began doing business online I could put up a website and if I could get the website found I could bank on making money from it. I had some of the first health insurance websites there were up back then. Websites were a novelty. They were new. Search engines were coming into being. As we moved into the early 2000s then having a website and in particular a website that could do business online if ranked well on the search…

Symantec Unveils New Advanced Threat Protection

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Integrated approach and roadmap of organic innovation produce unparalleled defenses and more value MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 5, 2014 – Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced an entirely new approach to advanced threat protection (ATP), unveiling a roadmap of integrated solutions that demonstrates the security innovation power that only it can deliver to help customers solve their most complex problems. This approach is fueled by two new offerings, Symantec Managed Security Services -Advanced Threat Protection and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection Solution, which correlate alerts and intelligence across a range of security…

Before Amazon, There Was Pizza Hut’s PizzaNet

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Pizza Hut has seen sales from mobile devices grow 4,000 percent in the past three years. It now lets customers order from the Internet and six types of devices, with more options on the way. Here’s how one of the nation’s best known franchises stays atop evolving tech trends to capture new customers. Pizza Hut passed the $6 billion mark in all-time digital sales in 2013, just four years after the company introduced its first mobile app in 2009, and it continues to push hard in the mobile arena to keep up…

Microsoft rushes to fix two critical flaws

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Eight bulletins for this month’s patch Tuesday Critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Sharepoint are to be fixed in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. The two critical updates cover flaws in IE7 and above as well as Sharepoint. The remaining six bulletins cover flaws marked as “important”. Three remote code execution vulnerabilities will be addressed; two of these are marked critical, meaning the flaws can be exploited by hackers without user interaction. The remote code execution flaw affects Internet Explorer from version 6 to IE 11 on all Windows platforms, according to…

Error Messages Are Evil

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 enews

Error messages punish people for not behaving like machines. It is time we let people behave like people. When a problem arises, we should call it machine error, not human error: the machine was designed wrong, demanding that we conform to its peculiar requirements. It is time to design and build machines that conform to our requirements. Stop confronting us: Collaborate with us. I hate error messages. They are insulting, condescending, and worst of all, completely unnecessary. Evil, nasty little things. They cause us to do unneeded work, and often…