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Comcast has been continually trying to enrich the box in part by issuing a frequent nightly request to restart the box now or later. This is presumably to download necessary updates. Voice is the new user interface, and Audience is rapidly capitalizing on its technology and experience to get into new areas. This week the company released its first voice processing software product for x86 PCs and the new e800e Series processors with far-field and direction features that should have enterprise phone manufacturers taking notice. Three compelling reasons to consider containerization for endpoint management and security requirements. Last week, HP announced it will be delivering its first 3D printing in 2016. The Multi Jet Fusion technology is getting raves, but HP may not be moving fast enough to make the impact it needs to be a dominant player in the marketplace. Lately, it seems that the only news we hear is what other multinational company has been hacked and how many records were accessed. We have always been security conscience, but it does appear that hackers and malware have been making us even more so lately. Unfortunately, this is neither something new, nor something that is likely to go away. We have seen over the decades that lawsuits are constantly going back and forth between major companies, such as Apple, Samsung and Nokia, just to mention a few for patent infringement. This week we have an announcement that no only allows two companies to share their patents, but also any new patents that are filed for the next 10 years. All retailers and merchants strive to be PCI compliant, yet how do organizations cost effectively protect payments and accompanying data when the customer is buying everything from a $1.00 parking pass to a $100k car? To better understand how PCI works, this article will address the history, outline the benefits of PCI compliance, and discuss ways to ensure the proper systems are in place, no matter the size of the purchase or organization. In a conference call this morning, Orbital Sciences Corporation announced how it would fulfill its contract commitments to NASA for delivering cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) under a $1.9 billion contract after its launch failure last week. The company plans to buy one or two third-party launches for 2015-2016 and put an upgraded Antares launch vehicle into service by 2016-an aggressive schedule to play catch up after the Orb-3 mission came crashing back to earth. Cisco likes to do research and make some calculated guesses as to what it all means. Their annual update of looking at workers and the future of the workplace, Cisco Connected World Technology (CCWTR), provides interesting insights about the changing nature of work as Gen Y and Gen X become the predominant members of the workforce globally. This month both HP and Alienware launched new gaming notebooks (Razor was out with their Blade earlier in the year), and the good news for gamers is that PC gaming does appear to be gaining momentum. The move to 4K resolutions and the ability of the various gaming engines to make use of this new resolution are creating some amazing games. Unfortunately, the 4K TVs coming to market this year are mostly crap and many of the monitors aren't a lot better. So if you are going with a gaming laptop this year, getting high resolution is critical, and this is where the HP lets you down. AT&T and Verizon have officially declared they are working on Voice over LTE (VoLTE) connections between their respective networks and customers. VoLTE calls between Verizon and AT&T customers is expected in 2015, according to a statement from the companies. And, there's also some Rich Communications Services (RCS) news buried in the text. U.K.-based BT has done a lot of talking about performing HD voice transcoding for fun and profit, but Deutsche Telekom (DT) is the first carrier actually doing it for customers. In their case, in Germany across its broadband and 3G wireless networks. Transcoding started on October 9, 2014, according to a DT spokesperson.
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