Monthly Archives: August 2015
What Google’s OnHub Wireless Router Brings to Consumer Networking
What Google's OnHub Wireless Router Brings to Consumer Networking
Google has expanded its efforts in the smart home business with the announcement of its OnHub...
Sony Next-Gen SmartBand 2 Has Advanced Heart Rate Tracking
With an upgraded heart rate sensor, Sony's upcoming SmartBand 2 health and fitness band will help users gain new insights into their fitness, stress...
Vonage to Grow UCaaS Portfolio With iCore Acquisition
Vonage officials are looking to boost its enterprise cloud communications capabilities by acquiring iCore Networks, which offers a range of collaboration and cloud services.Vonage...
ZTE’s $180 Warp Elite Smartphone Comes to Boost Mobile
ZTE's $180 Warp Elite Smartphone Comes to Boost Mobile
Now available from Boost Mobile, the ZTE Warp Elite delivers a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 5.5-inch...
Smartphone Sales Start to Slide Worldwide
Worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015, with sales to end users totaling 330 million...
Facebook Open-Sources Hack Codegen
Facebook announced it is open-sourcing its Hack Codegen library for generating Hack code and writing it into signed files that prevent undesired modifications.Hack is...
BlackBerry’s Android-Rumored Venice Smartphone Slated for November
BlackBerry is expected to launch its first Android smartphone later this year, as it continues to fight to gain market share and new customers...
At Microsoft, Software-Defined Networking Takes Cloudy Turn
Microsoft is bullish on software-defined networking (SDN) if for no other reason than the technology's ability to help it provide Azure cloud services to...
AlienVault Raises $52M to Grow Its Security Business
Privately held security vendor AlienVault announced on Aug. 19 that it has raised $52 million in a new Series E round of funding, led...
Microsoft Shows Up in Full Force at LinuxCon
SEATTLE—Most Linux proponents likely never expected to see Microsoft listed as a sponsor for a Linux Foundation event. Yet that's precisely what happened at...