Monthly Archives: April 2016
Big Blue Launches IBM Health Corps
IBM has launched a new health initiative, the IBM Health Corps, patterned after the company’s Corporate Service Corps, which is often called the private...
Verizon, T-Mobile Get High Marks for Airport Mobile Coverage
Travelers in the Atlanta airport are likely to have a better mobile service experience than those in Los Angeles’ airport, according to a report...
PC Market Continues Downward Spiral Despite Windows 10
Industry analysts have been warning for months that the global PC market would continue to see shipment declines in the first half of 2016,...
LinkedIn Open-Sources Dr. Elephant Hadoop, Spark Tuning Tool
LinkedIn has open-sourced its Hadoop and Spark performance tuning tool, known as Dr. Elephant, to help Hadoop and Spark users add easy, self-service tuning...
BlackBerry to Aim 2 Smartphones at Midrange Buyers to Spur Sales
BlackBerry CEO John Chen says his company will release two new less expensive Android smartphone models later in 2016 in an effort to win...
Lack of Clear Flight Rules Hampers Commercial Drone Adoption
ORLANDO, Fla.—Representatives of drone manufacturers, distributors and dealers say that getting the information that businesses need to enable safe and lawful drone flights is...
Huawei Wants to Drive Telcos to the Cloud
Huawei Technologies executives are outlining a cloud computing strategy aimed at accelerating the transformation of network operators into more complete cloud services providers.At the...
Juniper Warns of Lower Revenue for Q1
Juniper Networks officials say revenue for the first quarter will come in lower than expected due to weak demand from enterprise customers and poor...
Lexalytics Brings Sentiment Analysis to Android Developers
Lexalytics, which makes text-analytics software for both cloud and on-premises systems, has launched what it claims to be the first native text-analytics package for...
SanDisk: Updated All-Flash System Produces 2 Million IOPS
SanDisk made a simple but potentially significant claim April 11: After it updated its frontline all-flash storage system with 1G-bps SAS connectivity to produce...