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Microsoft Dons ‘Denim’ for Lumia Windows Phone 8.1 Update
Microsoft has begun rolling out the Lumia Denim update for select Windows Phone 8.1 handsets, the company announced.Among the biggest changes is how Cortana,...
EMV Credit Card Deployments to Make Gradual Progress in 2015
I was on the phone with a customer service representative at Bank of America asking about one of their Visa cards with an EMV...
HP Launches Flock of New Tablets Specifically for Business
Just when businesses are looking more seriously at ways to mobilize their employees and value chains and maintain control of their corporate data, Hewlett-Packard...
Google Cloud Dataflow Now Available on Apache Spark
Google announced Cloud Dataflow last June as a managed service designed to help companies ingest and analyze huge data sets both in batch processing...
Datapipe Acquires GoGrid to Speed Big Data Analytics Projects
Data management software provider Datapipe revealed Jan. 20 that it has acquired GoGrid, which specializes in multi-cloud infrastructure-as-a-service deployments for big data analytics projects....
Virgin Mobile Offers No-Contract Data-Sharing Plans Through Walmart
Virgin Mobile USA debuted several new no-contract data-sharing smartphone plans that allow customers to share up to 12GB of 3G and 4G LTE data...
Java No Longer Such a Big Risk, Cisco Security Report Finds
Cisco came out today with its 2015 Annual Security Report, showcasing the latest trends in information security. Among the surprising findings is a reversal...
Smartsheet Rolls Out Azure Active Directory Support
Smartsheet, a Bellevue, Wash.-based business software maker, has baked Azure Active Directory (AD) support into its spreadsheet-inspired project management and collaboration platform.Azure AD is...
Boost Mobile Launches New Samsung Galaxy Prevail LTE Smartphone
Boost Mobile is now launching the Samsung Galaxy Prevail LTE smartphone, which is the third iteration of the Prevail smartphone since its original debut...
Daily Video: Google Ends Its Google Glass Explorer Edition
Google decided to stop sales of the Google Glass Explorer edition, as of Jan. 19. This does not represent the end of the eyewear-mounted...