Monthly Archives: August 2015
Salesforce Developer Partners Deliver 20 New Apps for Apple Watch
SAN FRANCISCO–The idea that you can get real work done on the tiny screen of a smartwatch may seem counterintuitive, but Salesforce just announced...
Veritas Goes Private for $8 Billion Following Split from Symantec
Ten years after a contentious merger with Symantec that combined two then-industry leaders, but also included a clash of leadership and cultures, data management...
Firefox 40 Features Updates, Patches, Including One for Stagefright
Mozilla today released its Firefox 40 open-source Web browser, providing Windows, Mac, Linux and Android users with updated features as well as multiple patches...
What Google Will Look Like Under New CEO Sundar Pichai
As Google's bombshell reorganization under its new holding company, Alphabet, settles into the world's consciousness after being announced on Aug. 10, longtime executive Sundar...
Xiaomi Partners With Foxconn to Build Smartphones in India
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is partnering with Taiwan's Foxconn to try to carve out a bigger piece of the huge consumer handset market in...
Microsoft Adds to OneDrive’s Collaboration Features
Microsoft continues to blur the lines between cloud storage and Office-based collaboration with a new update to its OneDrive file sync and share service....
Adobe Patches 34 More Bugs in Flash
Another month, another large patch load from Adobe. The company's August Patch Tuesday update released today provides fixes for 34 identified Common Vulnerabilities and...
AT&T Recruiting DirecTV Mobile Customers With Offer of $500 Credits
Today's topics include an AT&T offer to DirecTV customers, Intel to offer server-class processors for mobile computers, an expansion of Sprint's "Direct 2 You"...
IBM Launches Bluemix Garage in Toronto
IBM recently opened a new Bluemix Garage in Toronto, the first in Canada.The company’s Bluemix Garage strategy is meant to meet developers on their...
Microsoft Squeezes Windows 10 Into Internet of Things Devices
Microsoft has a new Windows 10 release for Internet of things (IoT) devices, specifically the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max maker boards.Compact,...