Mobile Video Index: Facebook Video is Poised to Overtake YouTube

REDWOOD CITY, Calif – February 26 2018 – Openwave Mobility, the market leader in mobile video traffic management solutions today released the latest findings from its Mobile Video Index (MVI). This is the second edition of the MVI, a regular analysis of traffic data aggregated from live deployments in over 30 mobile operators. The study found that while YouTube remains the most popular for mobile video, Facebook is rapidly closing the gap in some markets – and has even overtaken YouTube in others.

Latest version of Preservica simplifies digital preservation and delivers enhanced API capabilities

Boston, MA 22 February 2018 | Digital preservation specialist, Preservica, today announced the latest version (v5.9) of its cloud-hosted and on premise Digital Preservation and Access solution.

Preservica v5.9 builds on success in enabling libraries, museums, archives and businesses to build dynamic, living archives that create sustainable value. New simplified operations and reduced clicks-per-action, combined with advanced ingest, characterization and migration capabilities, ensure Preservica can be used more easily or for more sophisticated tasks.

Divided we fall

Social media is the perfect platform for turning important discussions into shallow memes. A place where we all live in echo chambers, the cliquiest of all cliques.

In November 2017 Sean Parker, co-founder of Facebook, admitted:

...we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while. It's a social-validation feedback loop...exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology

My 2018 Digital Projects

Two years ago, I made an attempt to distance myself from CMS Report. The ability to shutdown ten years of work proved more difficult than I thought so I eventually compromised by rebranding the site to socPub. Since then, I've been working on a number of additional side projects. I'm still trying to throw new ideas against the wall and see which ones stick. 

For those curious, these are the personal projects I'm working on for 2018:

Merrill Corporation secures Axios North America Project of the Year with DevOps Initiatives

Washington D.C., USA – February 20, 2018: Axios Systems, one of the world’s leading providers of “fit-for-purpose” IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) solutions, is delighted to present its Project of the Year award to Merrill Corporation, an Information Technology and Services Organization.

Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, Merrill Corporation employs thousands of personnel in 34 global locations. With over 50 years of experience, Merrill aims to successfully help organizations secure sharing of sensitive content, distribute critical financial and regulatory disclosures and create customized and compliant communications.

RiskIQ Announces New Digital Footprint Risk Reporting to Improve Digital Defense

LONDON - Feb. 20, 2018 - RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today announced updates and enhancements to its Digital Footprint product to improve digital defences and help organizations understand their exposure to digital risk from outside the safety of their firewall.

New capabilities within Digital Footprint provide a holistic Risk Report to an organization, as it relates to their external risk exposure on the internet. Utilising RiskIQ’s industry-leading internet reconnaissance, security defence teams can dig deep into the factors that contribute to their risk to establish a plan to remediate the most critical security exposures.

TEOCO expands network analytics capabilities with Mentor 10.0 announcement

FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 20 February 2018 - TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, has upgraded the analytics capabilities of Mentor, its network optimization and analytics solution and has added support for Big Data infrastructure.

Survey: 9 in 10 Cybersecurity Leaders Concerned About Sharp Rise in Digital Threats

LONDON – Feb. 13, 2018 – RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today announced the release of its 2018 CISO Survey, revealing that 89.1 percent of all information security leaders are concerned about the rise of digital threats they are experiencing across web, social and mobile channels. 

Some 1,691 U.S. and U.K information security leaders across multiple verticals, including enterprise, consulting, government and education, provided insights into their cyber risk concerns and plans for 2018.