Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Long-time Amazon Web Services boss Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and long-time lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. Business Insider reported Wednesday that Bell was joining Microsoft. The … Read more
(Microsoft photo) Microsoft announced Tuesday morning that the long-awaited debut of its cloud gaming service on the Xbox family of consoles is slated for this holiday season, following previous releases from Xbox Cloud Gaming on PCs and mobile devices. Console owners who subscribe to the Ultimate version of the Game Pass service can play compatible … Read more
Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s Senior Leadership Team and long-standing lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. His departure, reported by The Information and confirmed by CNBC, is the latest change in the Amazon Web Services leadership team as Andy Jassy, longtime … Read more
WhatsApp chats already have end-to-end encryption, but what about your online backups? They too will be covered soon. As The Verge notes, WABetaInfo found that the latest WhatsApp beta for Android (2.21.15.5) includes a test for end-to-end encrypted cloud backups. Sign up and you don’t have to worry about hackers or spies being able to … Read more
Microsoft is buying RiskIQ, a cybersecurity company best known for working with organizations like Facebook and the US Postal Service to find out where and how they are vulnerable to online attacks. The company didn’t disclose the terms of the deal, but according to Bloomberg, Microsoft agreed to pay about $ 500 million. Outside of … Read more
Western Digital Network Attached Storage (NAS) owners may face another security issue. Following the two mistakes that hackers exploited to remotely wipe My Book Live devices, security journalist Brian Krebs released a report on another zero-day vulnerability affecting Western Digital products that the My Company’s Cloud OS3 software is running. Additionally, there doesn’t seem to … Read more
Some of the games available on Xbox Game Pass as seen on Google Chrome on June 28th. (Microsoft screenshot) Microsoft announced on Monday that its Xbox Cloud gaming service, formerly known as Project xCloud, has officially expanded to the web browser world. Starting today, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers with Windows 10 PCs or iOS … Read more
Boeing Co., headquartered in Chicago, has created a new business unit for aviation services with headquarters in Dallas. (Boeing photo) Amazon, Microsoft and Google are participating in a tender process to provide Boeing with cloud computing services. This contract is expected to be valued at at least $ 1 billion over several years, The Information … Read more
An artist’s conception shows Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite in orbit. (Telesat illustration) How will Pentagon planners deal with the streams of data expected to rain down from a constellation of satellites monitoring hotspots in orbit? Microsoft and Ball Aerospace have shown that the cloud can handle it – and not just handle it, but … Read more
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Several bank employees are held hostage in a Wells Fargo bank and police are trying to negotiate their release with the help of the FBI. The negotiators worked late into the evening – six hours after the stalemate – to free all of the hostages. At least three of the detainees … Read more