Monthly Archives: May 2015
Intel, Altera Reportedly Resume Acquisition Talks
Intel reportedly is back in talks with Altera about buying out the smaller semiconductor vendor more than a month after negotiations broke off when...
Ubuntu Linux Phone Now Available in China
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Ubuntu Linux is now available on phones in China, with a new high-end device from Meizu. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the...
Blue Box Cloud Brings OpenStack On-Premises
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Cloud services vendor Blue Box Cloud is expanding its model to deliver an on-premises OpenStack software and hardware platform. To date, Blue...
Security, Cost Worries Slowing Cloud Adoption
While cloud technology has been a long-term trend in IT, there remain many myths about how it works and what advantages it holds, according...
CenturyLink Expands Gigabit Fiber Services for Small Businesses
Telecommunications services and cloud infrastructure provider CenturyLink announced the availability of 1G-bps fiber speeds to more than 115,000 additional U.S. business locations and in...
AT&T Uses Virtual Machines as Part of Larger SDN, NFV Effort
AT&T executives in December 2014 laid out their ambitious plans to virtualize 75 percent of the carrier's massive network by 2020.The six-year AT&T Domain...
Microsoft Tries to Make Business Users Comfortable With Windows 10
The wait for Windows 10 is almost over. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, "Windows 10 will be made available later this summer." Unfortunately, I...
OpenStack Summit to Highlight Liberty Platform, Containers
Twice a year, OpenStack vendors and developers gather in design summits that cover the progress of the open-source cloud platform and map out the...
Google Gets Green Light to Test Self-Driving Cars on Public Roads
The first fully autonomous cars may hit U.S. roads sooner than many might generally have presumed.Google on May 15 said it has received the...
New U.S. Cyber-Defense Strategy a Two-Edged Sword
The U.S. military says it's using a nuclear doctrine from the Cold War to prevent the next Sony Pictures Entertainment-style hack.U.S. Defense Secretary Ash...