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You would think that a company being pounded for privacy issues and facing a competitive marketing effort that made fun of those issues (Scroogled) would pull back and circle the wagons at least with regard to privacy. But Google isn't built that way. They sat back and figured the way to get people to stop accusing them of a crime was to implicate their fan base and making those fans pay $1,500 for the privilege of buying a product that makes Google's past spying seem trivial by comparison. It seems folks aren't all that upset if Google is spying as long as they are doing the spying, go figure? Armed with hands-on experience, teens have much of what they need to develop what they wish to view, and are more than well-versed on use of the devices (laptop, smartphone, tablet, etc.) they wish to view it on. Most importantly, they know what they want to pay for and what isn't worth their money. The business of broadcast is like any other enterprise vertical, in that the rise of mobility, social enablement and all-digital, all-IP transactions are creating a level of complexity hitherto unknown. And like other enterprises, content and media companies and their distribution partners are looking to boost productivity, optimize resources and cut costs, by embracing the cloud. But the challenges include the rapid growth in the amount of multiscreen video content and a dizzying proliferation of options at each stage of the video processing workflow. A study by Experian Marketing Services confirms that watching streaming or downloaded video on any device is connected to higher rates of cord-cutting, the abandonment of linear TV. Fon has started a Kickstarter campaign hoping to boost its popularity even more with the Gramofon, a Wi-Fi router that integrates music streaming. In case you were not aware, although it appears many if not most IT security professionals know this up close and personal, SQL injections are a vector of vulnerability those with malicious intent unfortunately love to exploit. A new first-of-its-kind study by security research firm Ponemon Institute, done in conjunction with DB Networks, a provider of behavioral analysis database security solutions, is out and deserves to be on your "must read" list. One might argue that will happen. The traditional argument--for at least a decade--is that neither AT&T nor Verizon can grow the video portion of their triple-play services much more than incrementally without acquiring more video share now held by the satellite providers. The headlines always like to focus on the sensational when it comes to data breaches. The Target breach (an estimated 70 million accounts affected) and Nieman Marcus (1.1 million credit and debit cards hacked) are big news. And in just the past few days, the Heartbleed Bug, which has the potential to compromise almost one-third of active sites on the Internet and according to recent reports successfully exploited the Canada Revenue Agency, has cast a pall across the trustworthiness of virtually every place we like to visit online. It should come as no surprise to anyone in the technology industry, be you buyer or seller, that inside of enterprises IT departments are being buffeted by unprecedented changes that are reshaping expectations, roles and responsibilities. All of the buzzwords come into play: "Shadow IT," "Consumerization of IT," BYOD, cloud, mobility, virtualization, big data, security, risk management, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.
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