Monthly Archives: August 2015
Here’s Why Verizon Dropped Contracts for Customers
Starting Aug. 13, when Verizon Wireless begins offering its new no-contract cellular data and phone packages to new and existing customers, the company will...
Lenovo Grows Mobile Workstation Lineup
Lenovo officials are establishing a new family of ThinkPad mobile workstations that will be powered by new Xeon processors specifically designed by Intel for...
Verizon Becomes Last Big Four Carrier to Drop Service Contracts
Two years after the then-smallest national wireless carrier in the United States announced that it was doing away with contracts, the largest, Verizon Wireless,...
AMD Reportedly Investigating FPGAs
Advanced Micro Devices officials reportedly are looking into using FPGA accelerators with their Opteron server processors, a move that would advance the company's efforts...
Black Hat Reveals Expanding Threat Landscape, Code Analytics Potential
LAS VEGAS—Black Hat 2015 showed that security technology is better, smarter and faster than ever before, but still one step or more behind the...
Verizon Boosts Network Performance in Phoenix, Las Vegas
Faster Internet speeds for Verizon Wireless users in Phoenix and Las Vegas are now available thanks to a series of key network upgrades made...
Chinese Unicorn Team Hacks GPS at DefCon
GPS is widely used around the world today to help people get where they want to go, as well as to help enforce no-fly...
Microsoft Launches Key Piece of Cortana Analytics Suite
Microsoft's cloud-based big data analytics vision took a major step forward with the official release of Azure Data Factory, the company's cloud-based data integration...
How SAP Deploys HANA to Help Tennis Players in Real Time
STANFORD, Calif.—Sports news channels informed us that in women's professional tennis at the Bank of the West Classic Aug. 9 in Silicon Valley, No....
Microsoft ‘Bridging’ Tool to Bring iOS Apps to Windows Store
Today's topics include a preview of a new Microsoft open-source "bridging" tool that can bring iOS apps to the Windows platform, a security issue...