In light of the recently concluded imbroglio over Apple’s refusal to help the FBI break into an iPhone alleged to have been used by the attacker in the San Bernardino shootings, Peiter Zatko, security expert and engineer formerly at Google’s
For several years, experts have predicted that 5G would be commercially available in 2020. In light of the recent technological advancements in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, it seems that 5G is expected in the much nearer future. 5G will likely have
Akamai Applies for Mobile Security and Sensitive Data Handling Patents In July 2015, the CEO of Akamai, Tom Leighton, applied for a patent titled “Method and system for handling sensitive data in a content delivery network.” This publication outlines a
Google’s Safe Browsing Now Includes Protection Against Deceptive Download Buttons Google’s Safe Browsing API is designed to protect web users by posting a warning page before a user potentially enters an insecure website. The service defends against phishing and other
At 1.35 billion users and counting with an “always on” site, Facebook’s network infrastructure demands scalability and rapid evolution. Facebook’s network experiences machine to machine traffic several orders of magnitude larger than machine to user traffic, and this traffic is
Efficiency of HTTPS Long Polling and MQTT with SSL on Android According to Stephen Nicholas, a Super Geek and “IBMer” – MQTT, designed to provide mobile users with low-latency and low power usage messaging over fragile networks, and secure request-response
Connection Pooling and Late Binding to Reduce Roundtrip Latency A common concern in routing is determining how to obtain minimal roundtrip latency to a remote server. To control the number of concurrently established connections and avoid setup costs, connections are
Semiweekly Tech Updates Facebook Open Sources their Big Sur AI hardware Deep learning, while a small academic field for computational science, is garnering huge interest from companies such as Google, Facebook, and IBM. Deep learning trains machines to recognize patterns
Semiweekly Updates Ericsson and China Mobile Partner to Foster 5G Technology The world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile Ltd., has recently signed a memorandum of understanding under China Mobile Research Institute with Ericsson to develop innovative 5G mobile network technologies
Google has officially launched a customer facing CDN which they call “Google Cloud CDN”. We say customer facing because Google has always had an internal CDN to deliver their own content, including Youtube. The question begs itself, is Google a
Sometimes the research results get interesting when conducting analysis on various metrics in the industry. Over the last few months, we’ve been talking about the big bad wolf called GAFAN+M. Shockingly, the market valuation for the GAFAN+M jumped about $500B
We’re starting a new blog post series called “The Ugly Truth”, and the purpose of each post is to ask and answer the most difficult question pertaining to our industry. The question is carefully selected, and it reflects the question
For the last few months now, we’ve been tracking the total market cap for GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) – who are the largest Internet companies in their respective industries. From July 2015 to October 2015, GAFAN’s total market
Google Capital invested $25M in Zscaler, a leading cloud security company that secures more than 15M users around the world. Gene Frantz, Partner at Google Capital stated “we’re are big believers in two unstoppable technology trends that Zscaler is riding
If Google really wanted to, they could probably kill two birds with one stone. First, they could radically transform the competitive landscape within the security industry. Next, they could reduce the impact of DDoS Attacks, Bot Attacks and Malware by
