U.S. & U.K. Join Together to Combat Against Cyber-hackers

Due to the increased vulnerabilities to crucial infrastructure to online hackers, U.S. and British Intelligence agencies will conduct simulated cyber-attacks on each other’s financial and other sectors to test resilience as part of a new effort to strengthen cyber defense.  This effort comes amid heightened concerns about the growing threat of cyber-terrorism in the wake of large-scale hack on Sony Pictures. 

Read more about the two nation's defense plan here

Promotion of Diversity Without Recognizing the King

Last year, the Rainbow PUSH successfully engaged over two-dozen leading technology companies to reveal their diversity data that revealed under-representation of Blacks, Latinos and women in every company.  The campaign has generated a new climate of change sweeping through Silicon Valley apparent in Intel’s diversity initiative announced at the start of 2015.  However, most technology companies will not be observing Martin Luther King Day, they will be conducting business as usual on Monday.  Hopefully, Intel’s initiative to reach full representation of women and people of color in their workforce will inspire other tech. companies to adopt diversity traditions in the following years.

Read more into the diversity efforts here 

Time to Cut Ties with Your Cable Company

2015 has kicked off with an announcement from Dish that it would offer a streaming television service called Sling TV that requires no cable or satellite subscription and costs a reasonable $20 a month.  It looks as if “a la carte” pay TV is one more step closer to reality.  The day after Dish’s announcement, Verizon shared additional details about its own streaming TV service, including a potential launch date in the second half of the year.  This is the year that you will be able to watch HBO and Showtime without subscribing to cable.  They said last fall they’d begin to offer stand-alone Internet subscriptions to their programming in 2015. 

Look more into what the cable companies have planned for 2015 here

The technology movement has made its way into the business and operations models for many companies.  We will continue to see business’s adapting their practices via technology intelligence.  Whether it is in entertainment of watching digital picture, diversifying and increasing opportunities for all kinds of people within the actual technology companies, or building a cyber-defense branch within our national defense, we are revolutionizing.