Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

A Chip on Your Brain

Intel has announced that by 2020 computers chips will be controlled by your brain. The hope is that your devices will be seamlessly integrated into your daily life. The teams at Intel are using FMRI to measure how the brain reacts to certain words, sounds, and images. That way a computer can discern what certain […]

Boo-hoo for Yahoo!

Today at noon, Yahoo CEO, Scott Thompson must leave his position or the hedge fund company, Third Point will begin a power struggle that would hurt an already beleaguered web company. What’s will all the hate? Well, in a letter send to Yahoo’s board of directors, Third Point CEO, Daniel Loeb, said that Thompson lied […]

Battle in the Cloud: Microsoft vs Google

There is a lot of buzz around businesses getting into the cloud. Storing data off site offers many advantages from always having access to your work to cutting costs. The question then comes down to which cloud service do you use? It seems these days that there’s a new cloud host popping up every other […]

Online Attacks Rose 81% in 2011

The war between legitimate data users and criminals interested in exploiting their data escalated again in 2011, as the number of malicious attacks on computer systems rose 81 percent from the previous year. That’s according to web security vendor Symantec, which just released an annual report on the subject. The company, which said it blocked […]

Google vs Oracle

Google is one of the largest tech firms in the world. It’s a rule of thumb in the business world that the big you are, the bigger the target you are for lawsuits. The search engine giant is no different. Currently, Google is being sued by Oracle, the proprietor of the computer language Java, to […]

Elementary, AT&T’s Watson

The voice recognition software known as Siri is one of Apple’s most iconic services. There is nothing quite like speaking to your smart phone and getting a response. It invokes a very futuristic feeling. Well, AT&T would chime in and say that its voice recognition software has been around for over twenty years. Now, to […]

iPads at Work

If you use a tablet at your job, chances are, it’s an iPad. In fact, according to a recent report by Good Technology, the chances are, very, very good. A full 97.3 of tablets activated by enterprise users over the first quarter of 2012 are iPads, up slightly from 94.7 percent the previous quarter. In […]

When the Internet Ate the Phone

You’ve got five new hires coming in for their first day, a meeting about a new product planned for 2 p.m. and a prospective client who might call in any time. The problem? You had to leave the office unexpectedly first thing this morning to put out a fire at a remote office. Scenarios like […]

The State of the IT Worker

According to a survey done by Information Week, the average IT professional makes 90,000, with a prospective one percent raise, every year. Special skills in things like wireless infrastructure and cloud computing topped one hundred thousand a year. That’s a fair chunk of change. So why is it that forty percent of all IT professionals […]

New Google Tools For Ads

Anyone who’s ever taken a look at what Google Analytics has to say about their website knows there’s a lot of data out there. You can find out whether people are clicking through online ads to find your site, how long they’re staying once they get there and whether they’re clicking through to buy anything […]