2019: The Resolutions Of A New Year
Happy New Year! It’s already 2019! Time is sure going by really fast! Wasn’t it just 2000 last year? It’s been almost 20 years since High School. My wife and I were talking about...
Author: Areeb Soo Yasir
Amazon & Alibaba are getting you comfortable with Insecure Clouds
It’s like Amazon and Alibaba woke up one day and said “I think we’re going to start Cloud Computing”. To give you some background here. Alibaba was founded by entrepreneur Jack Ma, and worked...
Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou’s Arrest Highlights Data, Security and Privacy Concerns in Canada
One of China’s largest tech giants, Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, has been arrested in Vancouver while in transit to Mexico. She is facing extradition to New York at the request of the US authorities...
How To Be Diplomatic
Sometimes You Don’t Have A Minute To Breath. When I first entered the Chinese IT market, I understood that Google and Vodafone had just exited China in a big bad way. I understood asking...
Private Cloud Spending is Increasing not Decreasing
There has been a lot of debate in the IT world and even among some of my own colleagues about where things are heading. I think some of that comes down to “what is...
Is Ethereum at risk of a 51% attack?
Before we get into the issue a 51% attack on a cryptocurrency , we should discuss what exactly is a 51% attack. It is a dreaded attack (thought to be unlikely until recently, though...
Google allows third parties and apps to spy on your gmail account
We already know Google reads and mines their users gmail.com accounts and like other tech companies gives government agencies backdoor access. But now Google admits hundreds of third party apps are doing the same....
The Origin of Hodl
It was one fateful day on Reddit. When one drunk and clearly emotionally unstable Reddit User made a post. He was so distraught, drunk and crazy that he wrote “hodl” 3 times and still...
The Hype and Reality Around SDDC (Software Defined Data Centers)
There’s been growing interest and hype around software defined data centers. It sounds great on paper to have a whole datacenter in software that is portable and flexible. But people forget, that the REAL...
Amazon Paying Employees To Report Positive Working Experience
Amazon, after a slew of bad press regarding poor working conditions and mistreatment of workers,has reportedly paid staff to post positive messages about their work environment. It was TechCrunch that found and headlined the...
