Content producers are in the throes of death. Be it the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A.Times or any major news publication, they’re all in dire straits. Today it’s mostly middlemen (platforms) like Facebook, Trip Advisor, Yelp, Yahoo, Bing (Microsoft) and Google who leech on others’ content and make money. Read More
Average consolidated total cost of a data breach is now $3.8 million, according to IBM’s annual Cost of Data Breach Study conducted by the privacy and data protection consultancy Ponemon Institute. This represents a 23% increase since 2013. The study also found that the cost for each lost or stolen Read More
All good things of life must end sooner rather than later given human imperfection. Ditto with Linux. Long considered one of the most secure operating systems thanks to its open source nature, Linux’s growing popularity is drawing the attention of hackers around the world. In what must be extremely distressing Read More
If not everything, timing is at least almost everything in the smartphones world. Every day brings fresh excitement over snazzy new smartphones like LG4, YotaPhone 2, ZenFone 2, Galaxy S6 and Xiaomi Mi4i . But there’s barely a pipsqueak about Ubuntu phones. Even the little news that trickles out turns Read More
Every now and then, there arises the necessity for Linux administrators to find out what version of a particular package is running on a CentOS, RedHat or Fedora system. As is to be expected, the commands to find out which version of a package is installed on RedHat, CentOS and Read More
The holy grail for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur is getting funded by a venture capitalist. Here’s how a ‘hot’ Silicon Valley startup’s funding process goes: 1. A bunch of Rich White Men raise several hundred million dollars from pension funds, foundations, super-wealthy families and university endowments through the old boys Read More
