Monthly Archives: February 2016
Nintendo to Launch its First Mobile Game App in March
Almost a year after announcing that it will bring its most popular games to smartphones and tablets, Nintendo says it is readying its first...
Microsoft Activates Yammer for All Office 365 Business Customers
Yammer, the business-focused social platform Microsoft acquired in 2012 for over $1.2 billion, is now standard issue with Office 365."Today, I'm excited to announce...
Startup PatternEx Launches AI Platform for Information Security
Fresh approaches to enterprise data security are always welcome, because bad actors always seem to find workarounds for the conventional ones.Startup PatternEx tasked itself...
iPhone 7 Rumors Swirling 7 Months Before Expected Debut
Hot on the heels of recent rumors about Apple's next iPad Air 3 tablet, a new 4-inch iPhone5se and the latest Apple Watch models...
Fitness Trackers Contribute Big Time to Doubling of Wearables Spending
Consumers spent twice as much money buying wearables, including fitness trackers, in 2015 compared to the prior year, demonstrating the growing popularity of wearables...
Microsoft Acquires SwiftKey Mobile Predictive Keyboard
Add another company to the growing list of mobile acquisitions by Microsoft.Confirming recent rumblings, the Redmond, Wash., software giant said today that it has...
Amazon Reportedly Planning Some 400 Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores
Amazon could be planning to open 300 to 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores across the United States, according to the CEO of a shopping mall company...
Ireland’s Technology Teachers Strike Over Funding Cuts
By Tom JowittA strike by lecturers and researchers has halted IT classes at 14 institutes of Technology across the Republic of Ireland.It comes as...
IBM Buys Another Digital Marketing Firm: ecx.io
Buying yet another digital marketing company, IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ecx.io—a digital agency headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany.IBM...
WordPress Update Patches Pair of Vulnerabilities
A new update to the WordPress open-source blogging and content management system (CMS) has been released that patches a pair of security vulnerabilities and...