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The One Big Question About Rsa and Its Relationship With the Nsa
Last week, the Internet security world was jolted by a Reuters report detailing a secret $10 million payment to the security company RSA from the National Security...
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Apple Has More Game-Changing Tech in the Works, Says Ceo Tim Cook
Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook spent a lot of time answering questions about how Apple would be different from what it was under Steve Jobs, and just how he would...
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China Sees Cyberwar as Reducing .s. Advantage in Future Conflict
It's one thing to read news concerning the latest report to Congress by the U.S. Department of Defense on China's latest military activities. But with regard to...
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Personal Information Is the Currency of the 21st Century
The currency of the 21st century digital economy is your personal information. It has no transaction costs and does not decrease in value when the supply increases...
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How the Cloud and Big Data Might Help Win the Hacker Wars
Hewlett-Packard's senior VP and head of its Software Enterprise Security Products, Art Gilliland, is speaking today at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco...
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Seven More Questions For Sap's Co-Ceo Bill Mcdermott
The last time we heard from SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, he talked a great deal about a then-upcoming product strategy called HANA. The idea was to move all of SAP's...
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Eight Questions For Rick Smolan About the Human Face of Big Data
If you work anywhere near anything that might be described as "Big Data" and have ever had trouble explaining to someone you care about why what you do matters,...
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Seven Questions For Tom Leighton, Chief Scientist of Akamai
You probably never think much about it, but there's a pretty good chance that in the course of doing your routine business on the Internet every day, you're also...
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How Garmin Failed to See the Iphone Threat
About nine years ago, I had a question for Min Kao, the CEO of the GPS concern Garmin. His answer was determined, and I thought of it as I watched the news from...
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Seven Questions About Analytics For Ibm's Mike Rhodin
You can't go very far with IBM before you hear the word "analytics."
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Seven Questions For Iridium Ceo Matthew Desch
More often than not, the Iridium satellite phone system is remembered as one of the great telecom flameouts of the 1990s. It almost became a literal one: At one...
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Seven Questions For Rackspace Cto John Engates
In a completely rational world, Rackspace would no longer be a independent company. The Web host that has in recent years veered into the cloud services business...
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