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In one of the largest recent cybersecurity breaches, malware that is being called “Gooligan” has hit more than 1 million Google accounts through the Android operating system. According to a CNBC report just out, Asia is ground zero for this malware attack since the majority of affected accounts are located there. The malware has been…
In a blog post late last week Google Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker made it very clear that Alphabet (Google’s parent company) isn’t going to take the European Unions allegations about Android lying down. In April 2015 the EU raised certain objections to Google trying to muscle in on the fact that…
Not many of us look at competition as something that we actually need. But it is very true, especially if you are a company that is as big as Google. You get big, your bureaucracy gets even bigger, departments keep fighting with each other and at the end of the day, your output suffers. Suddenly,…
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, says an old proverb, and the recent announcement from Google and Salesforce is a great example of one such partnership that can take on their common enemy – Microsoft. The growth of Microsoft’s Office suite has been extremely prolific in the last two years, something we covered…
Facebook seems to be on a app-launching spree this month. First it was Marketplace, which connects buyers to sellers within local communities. Then came the Events from Facebook app, designed to enable users to stay on top of local events and share their activity on their main Facebook feed. Yet another app has been released…
A while ago we reported that Google Duo – Google’s brand new video calling app for mobile devices – would be launching to Apple’s App Store and its own Google Play store for Android. The launch itself has been tremendously successful, and Google Duo has now been downloaded to more than 5 million devices worldwide…
Oracle has announced its intention to buy cloud CRM company NetSuite for a reported $9.3 billion. But the NetSuite acquisition means much more to Oracle, which is now struggling with declining revenues in its legacy business of software and hardware. The situation Oracle is in is not a unique predicament. IBM is witnessing the same…
It’s a bit of old news to say that Google Cloud platform is way behind the curve. Even their wiki page is so small compared to the cloud leaders Amazon, Microsoft and IBM. The standalone revenue numbers from Google Cloud is so small that Alphabet hasn’t yet started revealing them, but if you read Amazon…
Ever since word came out that Microsoft would acquire LinkedIn, there has been speculation that Google may well respond with an acquisition of its own. What options does Google have, and will leveraging a key acquisition allow them to gain an edge over Microsoft? If so, in which space does it expect to compete with…
The education system finds itself at a particular crossroads in society. On the one hand, it is charged with the duty of anticipating real-life skills and preparing individuals to take part in an increasingly complex and competitive world. At the same time, education methodologies can only be made formal after the practices have been researched…
As machine learning, deep learning and other artificial intelligence technologies race to the forefront of scientific and commercial development, it is becoming increasingly important for the younger generation to be educated in the ways of AI. In other words, programming languages most suited to AI R&D and implementation. To that end, we’ve compiled a list…
Machine Learning is a subset of Artificial Intelligence. It is defined as a group of algorithms that aid software systems in predicting scenario outcomes based on training data. The algorithms then apply their training to new datasets and arrive at (hopefully) accurate predictions. By definition, an ML program keeps learning as it acquires new data…
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)
Smartphones are getting bigger, creeping into tablet territory with each passing year. Even Apple has recognized this need and is making larger screen sizes available. But as the form factor evolves, there’s something else inevitably making its way into every hand-held device on the market: Artificial Intelligence, or AI. AI is not new to smartphones….
