Monthly Archives: July 2014
Daily Tech Briefing: July 7, 2014
A new update for Microsoft's Outlook Web App is cutting a few steps out of the process of working with email attachments. A new...
Google Shares Research Findings With Scientific World
Google researchers write a lot of papers on topics including computing, data, statistics and more, and share them often with the world's scientific community...
Atmel Buys Newport Media in Internet of Things Push
Atmel is expanding its capabilities in the growing Internet of things space with the acquisition of Newport Media, which makes wireless chip solutions.Atmel is...
Voice Messages Return in Skype 5.2 for iPhone
Microsoft has issued the second update to its new Skype app for iPhone less than a month after it was released, the company announced...
How Software Developers Use Social Collaboration in the Agile Age
Software development is a team sport and today's developers, perhaps more than any other types of workers, have a need to collaborate with others...
Kinect for Windows v2 Arrives July 15 for $200
Windows users have only about a week to wait for the new Kinect to become available for Microsoft's flagship operating system.The company is currently...
Apple Grows Luxury Expertise With Hire of LVMH’s Patrick Pruniaux
Apple's luxury retail brain trust continues to grow, and with it rumors of an impending smartwatch, if not other high-end accessories.The company's newest hire...
LG, Samsung Launch Android Wear Smartwatches
The Samsung Gear Live and LG G Android Wear smartwatches are now on sale and available to consumers as of July 7, giving prospective...
Intel Signs Up Panasonic as Chip Foundry Customer
Intel is growing its burgeoning chip foundry business by agreeing to manufacture 14-nanometer systems-on-a-chip for audio-visual equipment for Panasonic.Officials with the giant chip maker...
10 Things Storage Vendors Don’t Want You to Know
10 Things Storage Vendors Don't Want You to Know
by Chris Preimesberger
Five-Year Warranties Should Be Standard
Most storage vendors include a 12-month warranty and will probably...