Intel lays out vision of “cloud 2015″
The big cloud presentation at Tuesday’s IDF was a post-lunch session called, “Driving towards cloud 2015: a technology vision to meet the demands of cloud computing tomorrow” by Intel Senior Fellow...
View Article“Fiscal stress” driving states into the cloud
The 2011 State CIO Survey is out, and the results reinforce a theme that I’ve been talking about for roughly a year now: in the present economic climate, cloud is to server room what temp worker is to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Pushes Back on EU Cloud Concerns as European Rivals Move In
In what appears to be an effort to ease the concerns of EU customers about the security of U.S.-based clouds, Microsoft has launched the Office 365 Trust Center and is offering its customers compliance...
View ArticleLAPD Bails on Google Apps Because of Security & Privacy Concerns
Microsoft’s Office 365 isn’t the only cloud service losing high-profile customers to security and privacy concerns. Google got a dose of the same medicine on Wednesday, with the LA Times reporting...
View ArticleHow Safe Is Your Data Stored in Apple’s iCloud?
Apple says it uses "industry best practices" to keep iCloud data protected. Photo source: mthierry/Flickr Our friend over at Ars Technica answer reader questions, and this one seems like one many...
View ArticleYour Google Drive Files Can End Up in Ads
Google Drive's privacy settings for files. Image: Courtesy of Google By Casey Johnston The combination of Google’s new storage service, Google Drive, and the company’s recently unified terms of service...
View ArticleIntel lays out vision of “cloud 2015″
The big cloud presentation at Tuesday’s IDF was a post-lunch session called, “Driving towards cloud 2015: a technology vision to meet the demands of cloud computing tomorrow” by Intel Senior Fellow...
View Article“Fiscal stress” driving states into the cloud
The 2011 State CIO Survey is out, and the results reinforce a theme that I’ve been talking about for roughly a year now: in the present economic climate, cloud is to server room what temp worker is to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Pushes Back on EU Cloud Concerns as European Rivals Move In
In what appears to be an effort to ease the concerns of EU customers about the security of U.S.-based clouds, Microsoft has launched the Office 365 Trust Center and is offering its customers compliance...
View ArticleLAPD Bails on Google Apps Because of Security & Privacy Concerns
Microsoft’s Office 365 isn’t the only cloud service losing high-profile customers to security and privacy concerns. Google got a dose of the same medicine on Wednesday, with the LA Times reporting...
View ArticleHow Safe Is Your Data Stored in Apple’s iCloud?
Apple says it uses "industry best practices" to keep iCloud data protected. Photo source: mthierry/Flickr Our friend over at Ars Technica answer reader questions, and this one seems like one many...
View ArticleYour Google Drive Files Can End Up in Ads
Google Drive's privacy settings for files. Image: Courtesy of Google By Casey Johnston The combination of Google’s new storage service, Google Drive, and the company’s recently unified terms of service...
View ArticleContributor Content: Google: Let Us Opt Out of Your Data Mining Machine
Would you opt out of Google’s online data collection if you could? Should we be able to? Have your say in the Insights forum below. Image: zampano1212/Flickr The French data protection agency (aka, the...
View ArticleContributor Content | Reclaiming Our Data Privacy
Today there are choices to taking back your digital identity. It’s a long road to truly owning your digital footprint, but every step counts, writes Alex Doll.
View ArticleContributor Content | Should Requiring Applicants’ Social Logins be Banned?
The Social Networking Online Protection Act is bipartisan win-win legislation that protects employers, employees, job applicants, schools, students, and student-applicants, writes Bradley Shear. Should...
View ArticleContributor Content | Mass. Bill to Ban Data Mining of Student Emails
Massachusetts has become the first state to introduce legislation that would ban companies that provide cloud computing services from processing student data for commercial purposes. MA Bill 331 is...
View ArticleContributor Content | FTC Wants to Beef Up Mobile Privacy Disclosures
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling on the mobile marketplace to offer greater mobile privacy disclosures to its users — including how their personal information is being used by players in...
View ArticleContributor Content | 5 Myths of Two-Factor Authentication
A series of recent password hacks at well-known brands, including LinkedIn, Twitter, and Evernote, has cast a harsh light on the problems of passwords, and how vulnerable we are as a result. Two-factor...
View ArticleMobile Computing | Should Facebook Home Be Allowed at Work?
While Facebook Home's future is far from clear -- not to mention the question of who even wants the thing -- it gives businesses big and small something to think about.
View ArticleThe Post-Privacy World
Edward Snowden’s recent allegations regarding what most of us already suspected the NSA was doing, have ignited a huge controversy around privacy and the role of the State versus the individual. And...
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