Monthly Archives: March 2016
Persistent Systems, IBM Team Up for New IoT Development
No single company can hope to become the majority provider of goods and services for the burgeoning Internet of things (IoT). This applies even...
How New York Envy Drives On-Demand Startups in Silicon Valley
If the many on-demand startups spawning in San Francisco "change the world" in the way they want to, we'll all be able to live...
Google to Open 12 Data Centers to Extend Its Cloud Footprint
Google will add as many as 12 new data centers around the world through the end of 2017 as part of a major planned...
Apple Updates OS X 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3 to Boost Security
Although industry watchers' eyes were on Apple's iPhone and iPad announcements on March 21, on the same day, the company released a series of...
Microsoft Shows Off Power BI’s Moves With SandDance
During the inaugural Microsoft Data Insight Summit today, the software giant released SandDance, a new visualization tool for Power BI that helps unlock the...
March Office Excel Online Update Does a Number on Currencies
Microsoft wants to make it easier for users to make sense of things, well dollars and cents, in the March 2016 update for Excel...
Cisco Reorganizes Massive Engineering Group
Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins continues to remake the company less than a year after taking the reins from longtime chief executive John Chambers,...
Salesforce Extends Wave Analytics to Business Partner Communities
Salesforce.com has been pushing to make analytics more accessible to users of its CRM platform and now it's aiming to do the same for...
IBM Launches New Bluemix Garage, Cloud Foundry Dojo
IBM today announced two initiatives to advance its cloud computing efforts, including the opening of a new Bluemix Garage in Nice, France and a...
Google Issues Emergency Patch to Fix Android Flaw
Today's topics include Google's emergency Android patch for a Linux Kernel flaw, previews of the first batch of Microsoft Edge browser extensions, new HP...