Monthly Archives: January 2016
Hospital Health Apps Failing to Lure Patients
Only 2 percent of patients in the largest U.S. hospitals are using hospital-provided mobile health apps, according to an Accenture report that assessed mobile...
IBM Taps Watson for Robotics Innovation
IBM is tapping its Watson cognitive computing platform to advance the company’s robotics initiatives, partnering with SoftBank Robotics Holdings to offer a version of...
Volvo Updates Its Car Control App With Voice Commands
Owners of Volvo cars and SUVs will now be able to give voice commands to their cars through a smartband and an updated Volvo...
Amazon Jumps Into the Computer Chip Business
Amazon is getting into the computer chip business through its Annapurna Labs subsidiary that it bought last year.Annapurna officials this week announced that the...
Ford CES Announcements Hint at a Snub to Google Car Technology
Google’s effort to get automakers to integrate its technologies into their vehicles appears to be running into some headwind.Earlier this week there was considerable...
BlackBerry Moving to Android Over BB10 for Smartphones in 2016
BlackBerry will run Android on its next two smartphone models in 2016, instead of its flagship BB10 mobile operating system, as it works to...
Microsoft’s Power BI Starts 2016 With Excel-Friendly Updates
Power BI is offering users returning from their holiday breaks several new data exploration features, courtesy of a set of new updates Microsoft issued...
Mozilla Re-enables SHA-1 Certificate Support in Firefox
In an unexpected move, when browser vendor Mozilla released Firefox 43.0.4 on Jan. 6, it re-enabled support for newly issued SHA-1(Secure Hash Algorithm 1)...
Cloudability Buys DataHero for Self-Service Analytics
Cloudability, a cloud cost management provider, announced its acquisition of DataHero, a provider of self-service cloud business intelligence.Cloudability CEO Mat Elis said the acquisition...
Growing iPhone 6 Supplies Prompt Apple to Cut Production, Reports Say
Today's topics include reports that Apple is cutting back on iPhone 6 production, Intel shows off the reach of its technologies at CES 2016,...