Archive for February, 2016
7 Ways Small Businesses Can Leverage Third-Party Apps for Local Search & Marketing
Apps consume the majority of mobile media time, but local business apps struggle to compete for attention. Columnist Wesley Young looks at how SMBs can instead use space on the most popular apps to get in front of customers. The…
Google’s Fake Locksmith Problem Once Again Hits The New York Times
Google’s local results algorithm has not fixed the fake listing problem from five years ago. The post Google’s Fake Locksmith Problem Once Again Hits The New York Times appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for…
27% of all malware variants in history were created in 2015
Last year was a record year for malware, according to a new report from Panda Security, with more than 84 million new malware samples collected over the course of the year. That averages out to around 230,000 new malware samples…
Harvard study refutes 'going dark' argument against encryption
A study from Harvard released Monday largely refutes claims that wider use of encryption in software products will hamper investigations into terrorism and crime. It predicts that the continued expansion of Internet-connected devices — such as smart TVs and vehicles,…
Cisco's CTO charts a new direction
We stand on the brink of two huge advances that will define the next-generation data center. One is a new architecture for Internet applications, where microservices running in containers on cloud infrastructure vastly improve hardware utilization and accelerate app dev…
Data destruction 101: There's more to it than wiping your drive
In 2009, a team of journalists who were investigating the electronic waste, purchased a computer in a Ghana market that was found to contain “sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman,” wrote Robert McMillan in a story at…