Monthly Archives: January 2014
Stratasys Intros First Multi-Material Color 3D Printer
Stratasys has introduced what it says is the first 3D printer capable of simultaneously printing with three different materials and a number of colors,...
Dell, Cumulus Partner to Sell Linux-Based Networking Switches
Dell is challenging Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Hewlett-Packard and other established networking vendors by offering networking gear that will run Cumulus Networks' Linux-based operating...
Cisco Wants to Be Foundation for Cloud Environments
Cisco Systems is looking to offer the technology that connects the growing range of cloud platforms, enabling workloads to more easily migrate between public...
SkyDrive Morphs Into OneDrive: Why Microsoft Rebranded This Service
SkyDrive Morphs Into OneDrive: Why Microsoft Rebranded This Service
By Don Reisinger
SkyDrive Launches in 2007
Microsoft launched a cloud-based storage service that would eventually become...
Tablet Market Skews Toward Smaller Size Displays: CEA
More than four in 10 (44 percent) online U.S. consumers owned tablets as of December 2013, an increase of six percentage points from December...
Smartphone Sales Top 1 Billion Worldwide for the First Time: IDC
In the worldwide mobile phone market (inclusive of smartphones), vendors shipped 1.8 billion units, up 4.8 percent from the 1.7 billion units shipped 2012,...
Samsung, Apple Lead Worldwide Semiconductor Market: Gartner
Samsung Electronics and Apple together consumed $53.7 billion of semiconductors in 2013, an increase of $7.7 billion from 2012, according to a report from...
HealthSparq Acquires Search Vendor ClarusHealth Solutions
Integrated health care transparency software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions specialist HealthSparq announced that it has acquired ClarusHealth Solutions, a health care provider search vendor.Through its Consumer...
Bitcoin’s Value Lies in What It Says About New Payment Forms
The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has gained in notoriety and in U.S. dollar value in the last year. But what is the true value of Bitcoin,...
Apple Working on a Plan for In-Store iPhone Payments: Report
Apple is developing an expanded mobile payments solution to enable it to further take advantage of the more than 575 million credit card numbers...