Monthly Archives: August 2014
Why the Future of Education Is Open
CHICAGO—Anant Agarwal, the CEO of online education platform edX, is on a mission to change the way that people learn. In a keynote address...
Microsoft, TracFone Team on Mobile Health Services
Microsoft and cellular phone and data services provider TracFone are betting that smartphones can help improve health care.The companies announced on Aug. 21 that...
T-Mobile Free Data Offer Aimed at Luring Rivals’ Customers
T-Mobile is going on the offensive for new customers by unveiling a year's free unlimited data to any T-Mobile Simple Choice customer who gets...
Five Places You Didn’t Think You’d Find Supercomputers
Five Places You Didn't Think You'd Find Supercomputers
by Darryl K. Taft
The Bitcoin Marketplace
Ever thought of supercomputing as a get-rich-quick strategy? Computer geeks do. It...
Daily Tech Briefing: August 21, 2014
Linux founder Linus Torvalds spoke at the recent LinuxCon about the hopes and challenges of Linux in 2014. He explained that he still wants...
Building Cars With Crowdsourced Intelligence
CHICAGO—When Jay Rogers left the U.S. Marine Corps in 2004, he made a promise to his fallen soldier friends that he would go out...
What HP Chromebook 11, 14 Deliver Now Before the HP Stream 14
What HP Chromebook 11, 14 Deliver Now Before the HP Stream 14
by Don Reisinger
HP's Chromebook Comes in 11- and 14-Inch Models
While the main focus...
Eight in 10 Enterprises Turn to Citizen Developers for Innovation
IBM announced results of a global study that showed that 80 percent of enterprises are forming new partnerships with emerging groups such as citizen...
UPS Discloses Data Breach That Went Undetected for Months
The recent spate of retail point-of-sale data breaches has claimed yet another victim. United Parcel Service publicly disclosed Aug. 20 that 51 of its...
CertainSafe Debuts HIPAA-Compliant File Sharing, Storage Platform
Secure file sharing specialist CertainSafe announced the launch of its file sharing and data storage service for the health care industry, which is HIPPA-compliant,...