Archive for July 10, 2014

Sonos Announces SoundCloud Addition

Posted in Commentary with tags on July 10, 2014 by itnerd

Sonos today announced the addition of SoundCloud in beta form to the list of audio services that Sonos provides.

SoundCloud enables millions of listeners around the globe to discover original music, connect with each other and share their own sounds – from unknown artists putting their first demos into the world from their bedroom, to bands debuting their latest singles, to podcasters, comedians, news outlets and more. With 12 hours of music and audio uploaded to SoundCloud’s platform every minute, Sonos expands your world of listening by freeing those sounds from computers and devices, giving millions of homes a direct way to stream to HiFi speakers.

Users can try SoundCloud’s free service in beta on Sonos now by visiting ‘Add Music Services’ in the new new Sonos controller app. For more information on this announcement, visit sonos.soundcloud.com.

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Citrix Blog Post Discusses The Top Enterprise Mobility Trends

Posted in Commentary with tags on July 10, 2014 by itnerd

I came across a very interesting blog post from Citrix that describes the top enterprise mobility trends. By mobility, I mean the use of mobile devices like tablets, smartphones and the like. The blog post highlights three key trends:

  • Citrix customers are managing twice as many devices across platforms.
  • Customers are shifting from device level policies to app and data level policies.
  • Productivity apps dominate enterprise app stores for cloud customers.

These trends which were derived from Citrix XenMobile cloud deployments show that mobile devices are becoming more and more ingrained in the Enterprise. Thus this blog post is very much worth reading if you are trying to develop a mobility strategy in your company.

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Smart WiFi Light Bulbs Leak WiFi Passwords

Posted in Commentary with tags on July 10, 2014 by itnerd

As the world moves towards the Internet Of Things, reports like this one from the BBC are going to become more commonplace. A security group called Context Security has demonstrated that by observing how a brand of smart light bulbs from a company called LIFX talk to each other, they could devise a method to get the WiFi passwords of the network that they were connected to. LIFX has since fixed the issue, but you have to wonder how many other products that are designed to make your home smarter have such issues? Also, you have to wonder how many of those issues will be a direct threat to you?

Perhaps it’s time that companies who make this sort of gear adopt the sorts of security practices of much larger software companies. It will not guarantee that hacks won’t happen, but I believe it will reduce the risk and make users safer.

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