£500k Fine for Facebook / 15 mins of Profit The social media giant – Facebook, just got fined by UK’s government via the Information Commissioner (ICO); Elizabeth Denham, who issued the 27-paged “Monetary Penalty Notice” on 24 October over the…
US Restrict Exports to China on Fears of IP Theft On Monday, October 29, the U.S Commerce Department announced in a press release that they are going to restrict exports to the Chinese company Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company, Ltd.…
Pentagons IG to Investigate JEDI Contract The call for proposals that was just concluded on 12 October by Pentagon for the $10 Billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) US military cloud contract, did not end without filed, verbal, published and…
Wikileaks Amazon Datacenter Locations Wikileaks; the whistle-blowing website, raised the eyebrows of the world on 11 October when it presented a document titled “Amazon Atlas” claimed to be an internal document from Amazon Web Services. The document, whose content is…
Rackspace Launches Managed DR as a Service (DRaaS) A couple of days after the Uptime Institute issued a warning for data centers to improve their infrastructure to be prepared for the increase in natural disasters, Rackspace Inc. announced on their…
iOS 12.1 Passcode Bypass Hack After only a couple of hours since Apple’s released it’s latest iOS someone was able to find a passcode bypass hack, that would allow access to private contacts on a locked iPhone. A Spanish security researcher, Jose…
Facebook to be Powered by Solar Energy Facebook announced on their newsroom blog that they are committing to lower emissions and to be 100% powered by renewable energy. “Today (August 28, 2018), we are committing to reducing our greenhouse gas…
AWS – To Launch Cloud Data Centers in South Africa after 14 Years! It actually started in South Africa: The powerful Amazon’s cloud-computing platform and web services (AWS) was originally built in 2006 at the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)…
Colo-D plans a 150 MW Facility in Montreal The IT solutions company, COLO-D, has just announced plans to open up a new location in Quebec. COLO-D operates several major data centers which focus on providing colocation and cloud services to…
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