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A Google Chrome View of Middle-earth Google announced its latest Chrome Experiment—“Journey through Middle-earth.” The characters and locations from the movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug can be explored in immersive 3-D graphical representative of Tolkien’s maps of Middle-earth. |
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After Three Years, Is OpenStack Still on Track? There are many exciting new projects planned for the upcoming Icehouse release of OpenStack, but there are also some troubling developments as the project moves from being an incubated alternate cloud toolkit to a serious production-ready platform. Is OpenStack finally ready for prime time? |
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E-Commerce Gives the USPS a Facelift The USPS was recently contemplating service shutdown on Saturdays to help reduce some of its bleeding costs and losses. Amid all of this turmoil, Amazon.com announced a partnership with the USPS to ship to some of its Prime members on Sundays, which will hopefully be a leap forward for the USPS. |
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Privacy Testing: A Growing Field for Software Security Specialists Security is not just about preventing hacks. There is a larger aspect to consider: user privacy and how organizations handle collected user data. Privacy testing is still a niche field, but it is growing as users become more aware of protecting themselves and social networks gain popularity. |
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Will the Chinese Dominate OpenStack? Who could have guessed that Beijing is home to the largest pool of OpenStack developers in the world? The huge Chinese market has been all but invisible to outsiders until the Chinese OpenStack activities were highlighted at the November 2013 Havana Summit held in Hong Kong. |
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Twitter: The Anti-Social Media Giant? Twitter has taken a stand against the NSA and any party trying to snoop around their servers and its users' information by implementing their perfect forward secrecy (PFS) plan for their mobile and web platforms. Read more to learn how this social juggernaut is keeping information private. |
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A Consolidated Payment Card Sounds Convenient—But Is It Secure? Coin is supposed to be a replacement for all the plastic in your wallet. It can store programmed information for eight credit, debit, or store loyalty cards. Sounds pretty convenient, right? However, experts warn the card might not keep your information secure, and it still has issues to work out. |
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The Latest Software News In this roundup of software-related news that matters to you, read about hackers who are attempting to disrupt GitHub and how a software glitch may have been responsible for delaying emergency help during the summer crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777. |
