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2014: The year of the data breach. Although technically the trend started with the massive credit card heist at Target last holiday season, 2014 really saw the perfection of the art, with big hits at Home Depot, Sally Beauty, Michael's, and yes, the celebrity iCloud photo leak. As bad as it's been, 2015 will see no slowdown in incidents-but rather, will feature a few key evolutions in strategy and purpose on the part of criminals, as indicated by the latest high profile attack, on Sony Pictures. This week marked an "Hour of Code," a not-for-profit effort that backers believe will teach up to 100 million people to be computer programmers. The code.org website claims over 3.8 billion lines of code have been written by students and even President Obama got into the act by typing in a single line of JavaScript. Maybe next year, backers can talk about hackers with 5 minutes to discuss computer security-a much neglected field. Many IP service providers do not own their networks. This creates a scenario of sending secure data across public lines, something many professionals don't realize. One's Ethernet may be Ft. Knox but the Public Internet is the Wild West. In what could be the latest instance of too little too late in technology, media and entertainment, AMC Theaters is teaming with MoviePass, to trial a subscription option in a few markets next year that lets consumers watch a movie a day for between $35 and $45 a month. CrowdFlower is an interesting company located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. What makes them interesting is that they have a technology platform that takes large, data-heavy projects and divides them into small tasks that are distributed to a multi-million-person, on-demand workforce around the world. In fact, the company says that contributors from 208 countries and territories have completed more than 1.3 billion judgments for CrowdFlower customers. And, in case you are wondering how they can get all of that work done it is through 5 million contributors, aka the smart crowd. 2014 has been an exciting year for cloud computing, for both those providing infrastructure and services and those using those solutions. The cloud is evolving to meet the needs of end users and enterprises and infrastructure and services are also transforming as service providers better understand how to meet customer demands efficiently and cost effectively. 2015 promises to be a standout year for the cloud, with adoption rates expected to rise significantly and with increased usage will offer challenges and milestones. It's a busy time at the Federal Communications Commission. Not only is the commission working to fill out its ranks, it's negotiating the delicate task of setting rules for and auctioning spectrum, reviewing industry M&A proposals, trying to figure out how best to guide the industry in its migration to newer technologies like IP, pushing to close the digital divide between rural and urban/suburban, and rich and poor, and modernizing E-rate. Oh and, by the way, it also continues to grapple with the complex issue frequently referred to as net neutrality - a topic about which industry debate never ends. For most broadband Internet subscribers in the United States, the top of the heap is somewhere around 10 Mbps. Sure, there are other options, and sometimes it seems like service is getting faster, but for most people, the idea of Internet that goes as fast as, say, Google Fiber just never comes into play. Gigabit Internet access in general, meanwhile, just never seems to enter the equation, not even as a thing that's vaguely been heard of like a character in an old fairy tale. A new study from Pivot Group and Telecompetitor, meanwhile, shows just how far divorced from people's perception the idea of actually having gigabit service is to most consumers.
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