Monthly Archives: July 2014
Google Seeking Research Applicants on Internet Policy Issues
Twice a year, Google's Faculty Research Awards program seeks out research proposals in 23 study areas for a wide range of new ideas and...
Health Care, Finance Sectors Lead IT Spending Growth
Financial service organizations are hiking IT operational budgets by 5 percent at the median and capital budgets are up 2.5 percent, while another sector...
Google Celebrates Chromecast’s First Birthday With Free Music Offer
To celebrate the first birthday of its Chromecast television dongle, Google is offering U.S. customers a free 90-day subscription to its Google Play All...
Empirix Conference Bridge Monitor Keeps Calls Clean
Network performance visibility specialist Empirix is looking to help small businesses clean up their conference call quality with the launch of conference bridge monitoring...
Drobo Mini Solid State Drive Aimed at Creative Professionals
Drobo announced the launch of its Drobo Mini with Solid State Disk (SSD) drives, which are available in three capacity bundles of 1 terabyte...
Apple Confirms BookLamp Buy, Swell App Said to Be Next
Apple, a company that likes to keep quiet about its acquisitions, has recently been tied to two deals.Apple has negotiated a deal to buy...
U.S. Mobile Phone Unlocking Bill Doesn’t Deliver Instant Freedom
In a rare display of bipartisanship, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed identical versions of a bill that overturns a ruling...
HP Brings ‘Capture the Flag’ Competition to Black Hat
Hewlett-Packard is bringing a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition to the upcoming Black Hat USA conference, which gets under way next week (Aug. 5-7)...
Hortonworks, Pivotal Partnership Focuses on Hadoop Management
Big data rivals Hortonworks and Pivotal are partnering to help drive Apache Hadoop deeper into the enterprise.The two companies will work together to push...
Microsoft Pushes Innovation in ‘Oneweek’ Hackathon
Microsoft is hoping to spur innovation at the company by hosting a two-day hackathon on July 29 to 30.The hackathon is part of "Oneweek,"...