Monthly Archives: April 2016
IBM, Pfizer Collaborate on Parkinson’s Disease IoT Research
In honor of April being Parkinson’s Awareness Month, IBM and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced they have entered into a research collaboration to develop an...
Windows 10 Preview Build 14316 Brings Bash Unix Shell
During Microsoft's Build developer conference last week, the company elicited cheers when it announced it was bringing the Bash Unix shell to Windows 10...
Heartbleed Remains a Risk 2 Years After It Was Reported
On April 7, 2014, CVE-2014-0160, better known as Heartbleed, was publicly disclosed by the OpenSSL project, affecting millions of users and devices around the...
Google Releases Book on How It Manages App Engine Cloud Platform
About three years ago in the summer of 2013, Google moved its entire App Engine footprint for the U.S. from one region in the...
Sprint Selling Assets to Raise Cash as a Way to Manage Debt
Sprint, which has been consistently losing money for some 10 years, is about to get a $2.2 billion cash infusion by selling about $3...
Microsoft Delve Analytics Helps Users Keep Track of Their Time
Delve, Microsoft's context-aware search and discovery app for the workplace, already keeps users in the loop when important emails cross their inboxes or vital...
Puppet Updates Platform, Starts New Interoperability Project
Puppet, which specializes in automating the new-gen delivery and operation of software, had a trifecta of news items to announce on April 7.First of...
Samsung: Q1 2016 Operating Profit Beats Estimates by 10%
Samsung is forecasting that its first-quarter operating profit will hit $5.7 billion—a gain of about 10 percent from the same period last year—while its...
BlackBerry Drops Price of Priv Android Smartphone to $649
BlackBerry has dropped the price of its Priv smartphone to $649, a $50 cut from its previous price, as it works to increase sales...
T-Mobile Offers Limited-Time Deal: 2 Lines, 6GB Data Each, for $80
T-Mobile unveiled a limited-time mobile plan that includes two lines with 6GB of data, each line for $80 a month on the company's 4G...