by alex | Feb 2, 2017 | newsletter
A luxury Austrian hotel had to pay a €1,500 ransom to hackers to allow guests back in to their locked rooms after the hackers disabled the hotel’s hi-tech room locking system. What Happened? Guests at the Brandstaetter hotel at the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt resort...
by alex | Feb 2, 2017 | newsletter
According to recent reports, the Trump administration may be about to introduce an immigration policy that will require foreign travellers to the U.S. to divulge their social media profiles, contacts and browsing history. Not A New Idea. Back in July 2016, the Federal...
by alex | Jan 25, 2017 | newsletter
Small- and mid-sized businesses who didn’t take up the earlier offer to get a free Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade are how being given another opportunity to do so. Ended Last Summer Microsoft’s previous offer of a Windows 10 upgrade, which was part of its push to get...
by alex | Jan 25, 2017 | newsletter
The UK government’s post-Brexit strategy green paper ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ shows that its previous commitments to more funding for rural broadband and rolling-out and 5G mobile networks is still on the cards. Commitments Last Year Back in his 2016 Autumn...
by alex | Jan 25, 2017 | newsletter
Information Services Group (ISG) figures show that in 2016, traditional outsourcing contracts were replaced by cloud-based services to the point where spending on cloud based contracts increased by 33% compared to 2015. Fall and Rise The ISG figures show that at the...
by alex | Jan 25, 2017 | newsletter
Akamai figures show that the inauguration of President Donald Trump broke all live video streaming records in terms of the rate of data transmission in Terabytes per second (tbps). Largest Single Live News Event. The figures from Akami show that prior to President...
