Monthly Archives: November 2013
Microsoft Releases Office Remote App for Windows Phone 8
Microsoft is giving the presentation remote a big upgrade.Microsoft Research has teamed with the Office engineering group to develop an app that allows Windows...
Google to Remove Street View Photo That Shows Murder Scene of Teen
Google is taking the very unusual step of replacing an image in its extensive Street View photo collection after a grieving father expressed his...
Google to Pay $17M to Settle Safari Browser Tracking Case
Google is paying a $17 million settlement to 37 U.S. states to resolve allegations that the company violated consumer privacy by using tracking cookies...
Nokia Shareholders Back Microsoft Deal
Microsoft is a major step closer to acquiring Nokia's handset business.Nokia's shareholders overwhelmingly voted to go ahead with the sale of its devices division...
Cray Enhances Hadoop Support on Its XC30 Supercomputers
Cray officials want to make it easier for organizations to run the Apache Hadoop platform on their XC30 supercomputers.The company on Nov. 18 announced...
IBM Pushes the Pedal on Cloud, Big Data, Mobile Innovation
IBM has been busy of late with several major announcements in areas including cloud computing, big data, security and more.In any given week, IBM...
IBM’s Watson Plays a New Role as an Application Development Platform
IBM's Watson Plays a New Role as an Application Development Platform
by Darryl K. Taft
Watson Goes to Developers
Watson, powered by IBM POWER7, is a workload-optimized...
Google Showcases Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on Its 150th Anniversary
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his now famous Gettysburg Address 150 years ago today while standing on the hallowed site in central Pennsylvania. On...
Nokia Lumia 1520 Smartphone: 10 Reasons It’s Impressing Reviewers
Nokia Lumia 1520 Smartphone: 10 Reasons It's Impressing Reviewers
By Don Reisinger
Nokia's Windows Phone Models Are Gaining Sales Momentum
Nokia's Lumia 1520 design won't surprise anyone....
Micron Unveils New Parallel Processing Architecture
Micron Technology is rolling out a new computing architecture that company officials claim will perform high-speed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data...