Monthly Archives: April 2014
Microsoft’s Cortana Presages Bing’s Future
One of the highlights at Build developer conference last week was Cortana, Microsoft's Bing-powered answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now for Windows Phone...
Freescale to Buy Mindspeed’s ARM Chip Unit
Freescale is bolstering its capabilities in such areas as home automation, the Internet of things and the cloud through the acquisition of Mindspeed Technologies'...
Yahoo Wants to Take on Netflix, Amazon With Hit TV Show
Yahoo, under Marissa Mayer, has made streaming video a priority; but now, it wants a hit television show that can do for it what...
Backupify Now Backs Up Box, Dropbox and Other Services
A cloud-based backup service for cloud-based data backup: That describes Backupify in a proverbial nutshell.The Cambridge, Mass.-based company has announced a group of new...
IBM Launches New MobileFirst Services
IBM today announced the expansion of its IBM MobileFirst portfolio, with new and enhanced services focused on mobile strategy and security, application development and...
Google Announces Lower ‘Sustained Use’ Pricing on Its Cloud Platform
Google has unveiled new lower pricing for Google Cloud Platform users through "Sustained Use Discounts" that the company has just made available to users...
DEMO Continues as Fertile Ground to Find Promising Enterprise Startups
What is on the horizon for enterprise software and services? The answer to that question can be found at events such as DEMO Enterprise,...
Microsoft Announces Skype TX for TV Broadcasters
Often used to stream live interviews on newscasts, Skype is no stranger to TV. Nonetheless, Microsoft envisions a bigger role for the technology, and...
Google Rumored to Be Planning Android TV
Android TV could be coming soon from Google.That's the basis of a widely circulating report from The Verge, which claims to have obtained documents...
Cisco Virtualizes Video Processing via Videoscape
Cisco Systems officials are using the NAB 2014 show to showcase its video content delivery capabilities, including announcing that the company is working to...