Uber, the taxi company with no vehicles, has provided an interesting insight into their network infrastructure. Being a global company, they need to be accessible by those locations that are…
Watsonfinds uses IBM’s Watson to gauge audience reaction to WordPress posts
Watsonfinds uses the power of IBM's Watson APIs natural language processing to gauge audience connection to your posts. Watson is IBM's cognitive suite built to answer questions in Jeopardy demonstrated…
5 years of Raspberry Pi – Happy Birthday to the makers board of choice
Five years ago, my son obtained a Raspberry Pi. I'd heard a lot about the $35 board that had been in the news, and how it was supposed to bring…
Broadcom/Brocade wireless – the Ruckus continues
So with the acquisition of Brocade by Broadcom coming to the point it may actually complete, we see that Broadcom is spinning out the elements of the business are further…
Product Announcement: Cisco Spark Board
Billed as a break-through wireless presentation display, the Cisco Spark Board is a digital whiteboard, and a next-gen video conferencing system. As an all-in-one device, it provides everything you need to collaborate with your teams…
Product Announcement: Cisco ENCS5000 NFV platform
One of the announcements at CiscoLive was the Cisco ENCS5000 NFV platform. ENCS5000 is effectively Cisco's branch-in-a-box device for running a virtualised routing, security and NFV platform. It uses the…
LoRa World Record Attempt – can he beat TI in Cape Town?
I occasionally watch the guy with the Swiss accent on YouTube. Andreas Spiess has been doing a bit of work recently on the range of various radio communications standards. These…
Mr Robot’s Christian Slater warns about the dangers of hackers breaking into your printer in an ad for HP
I've been watching Mr. Robot over the last few weeks, and whilst it's a little dramatic on the info-sec elements of the hacking involved, the series has been quite good,…