Monthly Archives: October 2015
IBM Makes Carbon Nanotube Breakthrough
IBM Research announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes, replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies.IBM scientists demonstrated a new...
Taking a Long-Term Look at the Future of IoT
BOSTON—To Mike Simon, if a product has an on/off switch, it should be connected to the Internet.Simon, the outgoing CEO of remote access technology...
Google Opens New U.S. Region for Cloud Platform Services
Google has added a new U.S. region for several of its Cloud Platform Services.The new region, dubbed us-east, will be hosted out of Google's...
Facebook Adds Video Profile Photos to Mobile App
Facebook is adding some fun to its domain: As of Oct. 1, users of the social network can upload a looping video clip in...
Microsoft’s Translator Tech Begins Its Skype for Windows Rollout
Skype Translator, Microsoft's real-time voice translation technology, is being integrated into the Skype for Windows client, the software giant announced today.First unveiled last year...
Microsoft Unveils Azure Data Lake Services, U-SQL Query Language
Today's topics include Microsoft introduces U-SQL query language, Cisco is moving into the data preparation space, AMD makes a commercial PC push with its...
IBM Launches Bluemix Local, Advances Hybrid Cloud
IBM officially launched its Bluemix Local service, bringing it out of preview.Big Blue debuted Bluemix Local at its InterConnect 2015 conference last February and...
LG Unveils V10 Smartphone, Latest Urbane Smartwatch
NEW YORK—Marking LG's latest forays into the consumer device marketplace, the company at an Oct. 1 event here announced the rumored video- and photo-centric...
Microsoft and Google End Their Patent Rivalry
Microsoft and Google have buried the hatchet.The technology giants have settled the long simmering dispute over patents concerning mobile phones and Microsoft's Xbox console,...
FalconStor Adds Cumulus Logic Predictive Analytics to FreeStor
FalconStor Software, a longtime provider of storage management software, said Sept. 30 that it has licensed functionality from Cumulus Logic for a next-generation, cloud-based...