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Sony Patent Reveals Weird Gameplay Rewind Advertisement Scheme
The folks over at ComputerAndVideoGames.com discovered an odd Sony patent filed last July that would enable an advertiser to display an advertisement while a video game is playing (allowing it to continue running in the background) and then rewind the game afterwards so the player could get back to business. It’s thought that this sort of ...
EMC President Pat Gelsinger Materializes Data Infrastructure in theCube at EMC World 2012
Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer of EMC, dropped into theCube at EMC World 2012 to speak with John Furrier and Dave Vellante—he visits every year at EMC World and always brings a lot of interesting insights into the moving-and-shaking projects at EMC. This time he sat down with the intrepid pair to talk ...
FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger in July; Google Sets Out to Warn the Infected
It’s the year 2012 and Mayan doomsday movies will abound—even though we unearthed another Mayan calendar that doesn’t end this year—for the Internet, we have a different blackout on the way and one that will affect more than 500,000 people. These people are infected with some pernicious malware called the DNSChanger Trojan used to hijack ...
VCE Chairman Michael Capellas Cheers On Convergence in theCube at EMC World 2012
Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon brought Michael Capellas, chairman of technology company VCE, into theCube at EMC World 2012 and spoke about the market for infrastructure solutions. As an infrastructure provider using a channeled distribution model and partnering with the best-in-breed in the market such as EMC, Intel, and Cisco, Capellas sees that ...
Anonymous Allegedly Leaks 1.7 GB U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Data
In what seems to be the most recent attention-grabbing stunt by the hactivist collective Anonymous is the announcement of the leak of 1.7 GB of data from a U.S. government entity whose job it is to inform the public of crime statistics. The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a lesser-known department of ...
Peter Chang CEO of Oxygen Cloud Talks Infrastructure at EMC World 2012
EMC has always been about storage and, as a result, how storage effects the use of data in computing architectures. Products such as Oxygen Cloud seeks to be part of this decoupling of data from computation, enabling data to float free from applications and allow it to be available anywhere. Peter Chang, CEO of Oxygen ...
White House Chooses Budget Official as Successor for Cybersecurity Chief
Last week, news hit the wire that current U.S. Cybersecurity Czar, Howard Schmidt, is retiring to spend time with family and friends—and ride his motorcycle. Now, amidst a strange atmosphere of legislation regarding the state of cybersecurity in the United States the White House is seeking to tap a new official to take his place ...
U.S. Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt to Step Down
The current two-time cybersecurity advisor and czar to the Obama Administration, Howard Schmidt, is retiring the White House announced on Thursday. He was named cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Obama in late 2009. Schmidt is a former Air Force officer and previously chief information officer at Microsoft making him a fairly good call ...
The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source
In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan at SecurityWeek is reporting that TPB has gone to Facebook to say that the attack started on Tuesday and as a ...
Diablo III Online-Only DRM Strategy Leaves Players’ Eyes Stinging, Throats Raw
The much anticipated Blizzard classic game Diablo III launched Wednesday to a great deal of fanfare and an equal helping of controversy. When all the servers (across the globe) green lit on 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, 15 May 2012 thousands of players who had pre-ordered the software rushed to log onto the servers and many found ...