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QLogic’s Rob Crawford Talks Infrastructure and Innovation at HP Discover 2012
Rob Crawford, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for QLogic, is now an alumnus of theCube so when Stu Miniman of Wikibon brought him in for interview there was a great deal to cover from the past year. He joined the California-based networking infrastructure solutions company in May of 2011 and has recently seen the ...
Cloud-Gaming Service Gaikai Inks Deal With Machinima
It looks like cloud-gaming service Gaikai is looking into being more than just a game-streaming service for gamers—but they’re looking at a foray into gaming centered TV scheduling. Earlier this week, the cloud-gaming outfit announced a deal with gaming video network Machinima; together they will seek to bring popular gaming-related entertainment to Gaikai’s open platform. ...
After 6.5 Million Passwords Leaked from LinkedIn Experts Urge Password Change
Earlier today, numerous reports hit blogs and news sites that a large file full of hashed passwords from LinkedIn has been released at the web. A Russian blog became the recipient of 6,458,020 hashed passwords from the social networking site LinkedIn with a user bragging about the one who breached their site and released them. ...
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: A Noir Cyberpunk Dystopia for the Era of Big Data and Cyberwarfare
Video game publisher Ubisoft recently unveiled their newest work of art Watch Dogs at E3 2012 and from the footage it looks like a beautiful masterpiece of contemporary-set science fiction mixed with technology people interact with every day. In it, the would-be antihero protagonist, Aiden Pierce, wanders a noir city controlled by a master supercomputer ...
Xbox’s Explosive New Streaming Lineup Makes Debut at E3: Music, ESPN, More TV Entertainment
It looks like Microsoft has used its massive PR vehicle at E3 to continue to ratchet up the pedestal for Xbox’s all-in-one entertainment box for the living room. The software giant has just announced the addition of over 30 million songs, numerous sports-related streaming venues, alongside connectivity with the Kinect for voice-control and search. Included in the ...
Vodafone Xone Hackathon Brings Expertmaker AI Insights to Mobile
The information ecology is a wild one, a jungle mired with millions of information sources bombarding people from every direction, each one vying for their attention. Storage and networking are no longer the bottlenecks to getting the information now we’ve even got a term for it: “information overload.” News sites, blogs, social media—Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, ...
E3: Sony’s SOEmote Will Add Emotions to Social Gaming
Sony’s upcoming SOEmote will use webcams to track the facial expressions and voice of players and translate them onto gaming avatars in order to convey a further sense of emotion into online gaming. Currently, massively multiplayer online gamming is crammed into its own box of animations and body language from in game characters that are ...
Stuxnet Origins Revealed: US, Israel Involved in the Viral Development and Rampage
We have finally confirmed that the world has moved into the era of state-sponsored cyberwarfare. It’s been confirmed, the Internet-worm Stuxnet caught infected Iranian nuclear material processing centrifuges was produced jointly by the United States and Israel in an attempt to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. An article published in The New York Times lays out ...
Amazon Instant Video Streaming Arrives on Xbox 360
In it’s continuing gambit to insert itself into the living room as the center of entertainment, Microsoft has brought Amazon’s instant video to its Xbox 360 video game console. This is part of an ongoing trend of bringing the already nearly-ubiquitous video game console into the Internet-streaming market. We’ve seen a lot of shifting going ...
University of Nebraska Student Records Breach Exposes 650,000 Individuals
The University of Nebraska is investigating a breach of their student information database discovered late Wednesday night last week. The security intrusion affected the Nebraska Student Information System, the University said in a statement late last week, it was caught by an IT administrator at the facility and the attempt was quashed by immediate and ...
