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OneWeb, intent on building a 900 satellite Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) broadband network encompassing the globe, released a flurry of information today. The company announced it secured $500 million in A-round funding, with participants including Airbus Group, Bharti Enterprises, Hughes Network Systems, (Hughes), a subsidiary of EchoStar Corp., Intelsat, Qualcomm Incorporated, The Coca-Cola Company, the Virgin Group, and Totalplay, a Mexican broadband provider. It also signed contracts for a whopping 21 launches through Arianespace and 39 LauncherOne missions from Virgin Galactic. Ransomware has been on the rise in recent months, and the extent of its ascension might horrify even the most casual observer. The software, which takes over a computer and effectively holds it-and its contents-hostage until conditions are met usually in the form of a ransom payment, has made some people a lot of money in a very short time. How much? The FBI puts it at around $18 million over the course of just 15 months. Internet streaming media, also known as over-the-top content (OTT) is a part of our everyday reality and affecting every entertainment medium. OTT-TV services have a steep growth potential, as a growing number of people worldwide already watch Internet video on their TV sets-and more regularly. Streaming music is proving to be one of the biggest developments in entertainment in a long time. With a host of companies already involved in the practice like Spotify and Pandora, and others stepping in, like Apple Music, it's a field that's likely to have plenty of competitors vying for the ears of listeners. Google, meanwhile, is throwing its hat in the ring with Google Play Music, which recently launched a free version in the United States. We know from the headlines that cyber attacks of all types have become more frequent and more sophisticated. It is also well known that those will malicious intent,whether they're organized criminals, state-sponsored terrorists or just bad actors looking to monetize an opportunity, are always looking for vulnerabilities to exploit, particularly in enterprises. Putting the constant news of a new exploit aside, it is always a good idea to turn to those tracking the who, what, where, why, when and how the bad guys are working. The idea of law enforcement networking goes back a long way, and today, it's hard to see a police car without some kind of network terminal in it enabled for remote access. But IBM is taking this idea to an impressive new level with the IBM i2 COPLINK on Cloud system, a cloud-based tool that gives law enforcement agencies, regardless of size or location, access to over one billion documents that can be readily accessed, shared and updated. SpaceX and OneWeb engaged in a symbolic tit-for-tat last week in their respective quests to build large scale, low-flying broadband satellite networks. Word leaked out that SpaceX has filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fly three demonstration satellites while OneWeb made a big splash announcement with Airbus on a paper commitment to build over 900 satellites. But there's still holes in OneWeb's bigger plan. Comindware looks at how and what enterprises need to change in a digital world where change is the dominant constant.
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