Monthly Archives: December 2014
Yahoo to Stage First Mobile App Developer Conference Feb. 15
Facebook and Google aren't the only two big-time social networking/Web services companies that stage developer conferences. Yahoo now has joined the party.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based...
BlackBerry Partnering With NantHealth on Cancer Genome Project
BlackBerry Passport smartphones will be used to help connect doctors and medical researchers to huge stores of patient genetic information as part of a...
Oracle Expands UC Suite With WebRTC Integration
Oracle wants to make it easier for communications service providers to more easily spin out cloud-based communications and collaboration services to their customers.The software...
IBM Patents Real-Time Analytics for Cloud Data
IBM announced it has patented an invention that enhances the use of analytics for assessing and directing data in a cloud computing environment, enabling...
Two-Sided YotaPhone 2 Smartphone to Debut in 2015 in U.S.
Russian smartphone vendor Yota has launched its latest YotaPhone 2 handset, which includes a smartphone display on one side and an e-reader screen on...
How Bitly Secures Itself and Billions of Short Links
Bitly is one of the world's most popular Web address shortening services, shortening over a half billion short links a month. Keeping Bitly's infrastructure...
Intel Ups Investment in OpenDaylight SDN, NFV Effort
Intel, one of the founding members of the OpenDaylight Project, is increasing its commitment to the software-defined networking standards body.Intel is joining such tech...
Linux Mint 17.1 Freshens Up Linux Desktop
Linux Mint 17.1 Freshens Up Linux Desktop
by Sean Michael Kerner
Linux Mint 17.1 Will Be Supported Until 2019
The Linux Mint 17.1 release is based on...
Hacker Group Reportedly Threatens Sony Employees
A group claiming to be the hackers that breached Sony Pictures Entertainment's network and leaked massive volumes of sensitive employee and business data reportedly...
Freescale Platform Enables Wireless Charging of Tablets, Notebooks
Freescale early next year will begin selling a 15-watt wireless charging platform that will enable users to more quickly recharge larger computing devices like...