Holiday shopping is continuing to move rapidly online, with an 18.1 percent increase from 2016 to this year in the U.S., according to MasterCard SpendingPulse. The global shift in shopping habits is led by consumers in the U.K., however, who a Nomura… Read More
Author Archives: Chris Burt
Apple Revises App Store Revisions to Allow Legitimate Template Use
Apple has made changes to revised app store guidelines that threatened to block a wide range of small business apps created with templates, DIY tools, and SMB app platforms.
The guidelines were originally revised earlier this year to ensure a… Read More
Web Host GMO Internet Offers Employees Part of Salary in Bitcoin
Japanese web hosting company GMO Internet is offering to pay part of its employees’ salaries in bitcoin, in part to improve understanding of the cryptocurrency within company ranks, the Guardian reports.
GMO Internet launched a bitcoin exchange… Read More
LeaseWeb Expands into H5 Data Centers Phoenix Location
LeaseWeb USA will expand into H5 Data Centers Phoenix location under a wholesale data center agreement announced Tuesday.
The data center, which H5 will continue to own and operate, offers private data center suites for 125-kilowatt and… Read More
What’s Next for Net Neutrality Fight?
The rollback of net neutrality regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has inspired vigorous argument, mostly along partisan lines in the federal government, and also between various industry stakeholders and advocacy groups. Just… Read More
What’s Next for Net Neutrality Fight?
The rollback of net neutrality regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has inspired vigorous argument, mostly along partisan lines in the federal government, and also between various industry stakeholders and advocacy groups. Just… Read More
Mirai Botnet Creators Plead Guilty to Cybercrime Charges
Paras Jha and Josiah White have pleaded guilty to federal cybercrime charges in an Alaska court for creating the Mirai botnet and launching attacks including the one that took down Dyn in October of last year, ZDNet reports.
Jha, who was unmasked… Read More
Keylogging Malware Infects More Than 5,000 WordPress Sites
The cloudflare.solutions domain has been taken down after infecting thousands of Wordpress sites with cryptocurrency mining and keylogging malware posing as script from trusted web services, according to a Sucuri blog post. The malware had infected… Read More
New Apple App Store Guidelines Will Impact SMBs Using DIY Tools
New Apple App Store guidelines state that apps created from “commercialized template or app generation services” will be rejected from inclusion in the App Store as of Jan. 1, 2018.
According to a report by TechCrunch, template and DIY services,… Read More
Half of Enterprises Get the Public Cloud They Pay For: Report
Only half of cloud infrastructure professionals at global enterprises believe they are being charged the right amount for what they get from their cloud providers, according to survey results released Wednesday by cloud optimization firm Densify…. Read More
Andromeda Botnet Brought Down by Law Enforcement Agencies, Private Sector
The massive and long-running Andromeda botnet, also known as Gamarue, has been take down by a collaborative effort between international law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders, according to a Monday announcement by Europol.
The Federal… Read More
Former Intel Exec Diane Bryant Joins Google Cloud
Former head of Intel’s Data Center Group Diane Bryant has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Google Cloud, bringing an engineering background and 30 years of industry experience to the position, as well as experience leading a group that… Read More
Oro Adds Hosting Partner Program to Support B2B E-commerce
Open source business CRM and ecommerce platform provider Oro Inc. has launched a Hosting Partner Program as it boosts the ecosystem to support the growing business to business (B2B) e-commerce market.
Oro launched its e-commerce platform earlier… Read More
Hostway Adds AWS, VMware to Multi-Cloud Managed Services Portfolio
Hostway is adding AWS cloud and VMware private cloud support to its multi-cloud managed service portfolio, the company announced Tuesday at AWS re:Invent, which is taking place this week in Las Vegas.
Barriers such as cost and compliance have kept… Read More
Trend Micro Acquires Immunio, Expands Cloud Security Capabilities
Trend Micro has announced an expansion of its Hybrid Cloud Security solution leveraging the capabilities it has gained through the acquisition of Montreal, Canada-based Immunio to provide improved container and DevOps security.
Immunio provides… Read More