February 4, 2012
Kaspersky hits Sopa, pulls out from BSA
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, has spoken out against the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) that has sent the world into an intense debate over the sweeping rights of the United States in its quest to fight digital piracy.
Eugene Kaspersky
The Russian tech mogul said in his blog that there should be other forms of regulating content distribution without having to enforce laws that would otherwise protect only a few.
Kaspersky, who earlier pronounced his company’s pull out from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), argued that the Sopa is only protecting the rights of Americans while distancing itself from non-US artists’ rights.
Kaspersky warned that putting Sopa into law…
Blog: The outsiders within
By Herbert Docena
Photo credit: afsc.org
Llamas’ woes are a cause for concern for those of us who share his radical goals: his predicament raises the age-old questions about the possibilities and the perils facing all those who refuse to just criticize from the outside and actually try to “reform” government from within
Some of the country’s most prominent thinkers and leaders have come to Ronald Llamas’ side (Randy David, Dodong Nemenzo, President Joseph Estrada) but his most articulate defender yet, in my view, has been this one anonymous DVD vendor in Quiapo interviewed on TV. Echoing what most Filipinos who buy DVDs would have asked, but forced to hide his face…
PaaS on the cusp of several years of growth
Posted: 04 Feb 2012 12:46 AM PST
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to research firm Gartner.
“With large and growing vendor investment in PaaS, the market is on the cusp of several years of strategic growth, leading to innovation and likely breakthroughs in technology and business use of all of cloud computing,” said Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
“Users and vendors of enterprise IT software solutions that are not yet engaged with PaaS must begin building expertise in PaaS or face tough…
