Monthly Archives: July 2015
DigitalOcean Raises $83M to Help Move Cloud Provider Forward
Cloud vendor DigitalOcean today announced that it has raised $83 million in a Series B round of funding led by Access Industries and with...
London Set to Become One of the World’s Smartest Cities
By Michael MooreLondon has cemented its place as one of the world's leading cities in terms of technological innovation with its entry to a...
Google Begins Pilot Tests of Autonomous Vehicles in Austin
Google began pilot tests of its autonomous cars in Austin, Texas, a sign the company may be ramping up efforts to bring the vehicles...
ZyXEL Launches 4-Bay NAS540 Cloud Storage Device
ZyXEL announced the 4-bay NAS540 network attached storage (NAS) solution for data access, which is equipped with advanced processing and fail-safe features.The NAS540 covers...
Vendor-Managed Inventory Platforms Seen as Time-Consuming
Less than a quarter (22 percent) of businesses use automated B2B technology to share inventory information, primarily because they view doing so as time-consuming,...
EMC Sells Off Syncplicity, Its Catch-All File Sync Business App
EMC has decided that it doesn't want to compete in the file sync-and-sharing and calendar business anymore.The storage and virtualization giant revealed July 7...
Malicious PDFs Poison Google Search Results
Getting a top ranking in Google's search engine is supposed to be an organic task, with the best content ranking highest, but according to...
MasterCard’s Plans for Facial Recognition Raise Questions
MasterCard is experimenting with facial recognition as a layer of security for its credit card payments. The idea is that customers could use their...
Apple Wants Input on How Third-Party Vendors Package Products
Apple wants to streamline and standardize the appearance of product packages in its Apple Stores by having third-party vendors use new packaging that has...
Microsoft Offers $100K for Academia’s Best HoloLens Ideas
HoloLens is going to school.Microsoft is kicking off an academic research request for proposals (RFP) for its Windows 10-powered augmented-reality headset, Jeannette Wing, corporate...