The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn’t particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success. In the days prior to Thanksgiving 2013, someone installed malware in Target’s (TGT) security and payments system designed to steal every credit card used at the company’s 1,797 U.S. stores. At the critical moment—when the Christmas gifts had been scanned and…
Crytek Adding Linux Support for CryEngine Bodes Well for Steam OS
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•Say what you will of Crytek’s first-person shooter Crysis series , or its gladiatorial hack-and-slash Ryse for Xbox One , the Frankfurt-based studio certainly knows its way around a dynamic volumetric light beam, parametric skeletal animation or real time soft particle system. Source: Tech
Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome
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•Elliot Glaysher, a Google developer explains, ‘We aim to launch the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35 . Source: Tech
Cebit: Ubuntu smartphones to cost 'between $200 and $400'
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•HANOVER: SMARTPHONES RUNNING Canonical’s Ubuntu mobile operating system will cost between $200 and $400, according to the firm’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Source: Tech
Using Big Data for Competitive Advantage
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•Companies worldwide are using big data to gain ever deeper analysis and rapidly and securely making those insights available to more people on their own terms. Big data capabilities and advanced business analytics have now become essential to nearly any business development activity. The benefits that enterprises can get if they can get their hands…
Valve Open Sources its ToGL Direct3D to OpenGL Abstraction Layer for Linux Developers
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•Titanfall has been the talk of the town since its initial unveiling and we’ve finally arrived at its review mark. Source: Tech
itec announces new business operation to include exclusive global Service Only Provider (SOP) agreement with SMART technologies
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•12 March 14 – itec announced today a new business operation and expansion that services IT vendors, resellers, and distributors in over 90 countries, including an exclusive partnership with SMART Technologies Inc. Since 1996 when the business founded its partnership with Cisco, itec has forged ahead year after year building strategic partnerships with AT&T, BBC…
Supporting Decision Making: The BI Sweet Spot
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•Technology is integrated into the DNA of business and of society itself. Some of the most recent entrants are cloud computing, Big Data, and mobile. By putting these technologies together, we arrive at an intersection that creates a “sweet spot” where innovation can be enhanced within your organization. In his session at 5th Big Data…
'Internet of Things' clearly illuminated at CommunicAsia2014 and EnterpriseIT2014
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•Visitors will get to preview end-to-end solutions for big data, business analytics, cloud, M2M and wireless networkingSINGAPORE, 12 March 2014 – The Internet is ever-progressing, expanding beyond PCs and mobile devices into enterprise assets such as field equipment and consumer items. For a truly connected city to happen, it has to adopt ‘IoT’ (The Internet…