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It would be easy to think that Microsoft's stock price glory days were behind it, lost with the dot-com bubble and a little song called Mambo No. 5. For those who suddenly felt like digging out their flannels, though, there was a good reason behind this: Microsoft shares had an unexpected surge in trading early Friday, and passed a high set way back in 1999. Norwalk, CT, October 17, 2016— TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, today announced a series of recognition programs to highlight technology companies committed to Workplace Excellence. It's a shot in the chops for T-Mobile, as the company recently agreed to a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the matter of deprioritization in its unlimited data plan. Under the terms of the settlement, T-Mobile will have to pay out $48 million, and make some updates to its disclosure documents as well about the issue of heavy data use on unlimited plans. This morning, as thousands of people woke up and started their daily routines, they found that it had been disrupted. Those who like to lie in bed scrolling through Twitter before getting up found that they couldn't access the social media platform. Meanwhile, people who like to listen to Spotify on their way to work were unable to do so. Why? It turns out that there was a sweeping outage of DNS provider Dyn as a result of a DDoS attack. For all of Google's strength in search and huge amounts of cash, it really has struggled to be a success beyond its core business. Last week's release of new hardware is the company's latest boring announcement, and even some tech media fan boys are wising up to its track record of mediocrity. Just win, baby, said Oakland's Al Davis. Like Oakland, Google seems to have had one era of glory with years of fumbling struggles for new success. It has now been several months since more than a dozen financial institutions associated with the Society for a Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) banking network were first pummeled by a series of malicious hacks. But the unprecedented series of attacks are far from a distant memory. Among other things, the attacks underscored that even the highly regulated banking industry isn't immune to attack, especially if security infrastructure belonging to its partners, business associates or industry counterparts isn't up to par. The overarching message? Your security is only as good as the security of your partners' and connected third parties' security.
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