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Most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped by malicious actors or bots, according to a new blog posting by Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer. Data scraping occurs when a bot submits a person’s email or phone number to a Facebook API to gain access to other public data on their […]
Broadcom officially completed the redomiciliation process to change from a Singapore company to a Delaware corporation. Broadcom is now officially headquartered in San Jose, California. It has over 8,500 employees in 35 states. The change in residency is expected to lead to several hundred million dollars in additional U.S. taxes. Effective as of the close […]
Juniper announced a series of enhancements to its unified cybersecurity platform, with a focus on simplifying security operations by accelerating time to detection and orchestrating mitigation, and helping customers improve their security posture across enterprise networks and cloud workloads whether in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or private data centers. Enhancements include: A consolidated timeline view […]
Amazon Web Services announced Shutterfly as another business that will go “all in” on its cloud infrastructure. Specifically, Shutterfly is migrating all of its core production applications and its more than 75-petabyte image library to AWS. The company’s next gen image sharing platform is also being developed on AWS, where it can leverage a wide […]
ECI introduced a compact, managed, packet transport edge device designed for cloud-based distributed energy resources (DER) network environments of power utility companies. The NPT-1010D serves as an MPLS/Ethernet switch and is hardened to handle extreme conditions in locations without continual monitoring and maintenance and can be installed in compact or non-assisted cabinets. “Revolutionary market shifts […]
AT&T kicked off a new advertising campaign with TV commercials that focus on “Edge-to-Edge Intelligence” — covering a range of services to business customers and actionable intelligence. The ads debuted during the 2018 Masters Tournament broadcast. “AT&T Business offers end-to-end solutions wrapped in security so that you can flexibly respond to business needs quickly, helping […]
SES now reaches 351 million TV homes, according to the company’s research. This means that SES is now delivering video content to more than 1 billion global viewers. This compares with 325 million households at the end of 2016. SES attributes its increased reach to the addition of new countries (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Turkey) […]
Construction has commenced on the Japan-Guam-Australia Cable (JGA), a 9,500-kilometer undersea fiber optic cable system will deliver a design capacity of more than 36 terabits per second (Tbps) and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2019. JGA is being co-built by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and NEC. JGA South (JGA-S), the […]
Intel has agreed to sell its Wind River subsidiary to TPG, a global alternative asset firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. Wind River noted that its software “runs the computing systems of the most important modern infrastructure, including manufacturing plants, medical devices, aircraft, railway, automobiles, and communications networks.” “This acquisition will establish Wind River as […]
Microsoft launched a new Azure region in Canberra, Australia. The new Australia Central regions enable customers to deploy their own applications and infrastructure within Canberra Data Centres directly connected via Azure ExpressRoute to Microsoft’s global network. The services are provided in partnership with Australian-owned Canberra Data Centres and are specifically designed to address the requirements […]
Vodafone India completed the sale of its standalone tower business in India to ATC Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (a unit of American Tower) for an enterprise value of INR 38.5 billion (EUR 478 million). Vodafone India is merging with Idea. Both parties announced their intention to sell their individual standalone tower businesses to strengthen the […]
Spirent Communications has expanded the functionality of its CyberFlood and Avalanche solutions by adding performance and scale testing for the new TLS v1.3 encryption protocol. The new functionality enables testing and stressing traffic capacities on TLS v1.3-enabled devices and endpoint applications. TLS (transport layer security) enables secure communication between web browsers and servers on the […]
Coriant announced the promotion of Robert Shore to the role of Senior Vice President of Global Sales Enablement, where he will lead a global team driving the company’s ongoing transformation into a software-centric and multi-sided platform solutions provider in a new era of open ecosystem innovation. His responsibilities include global sales strategy, multi-sided platform partnerships, […]
