Monthly Archives: July 2016
Parking Management Systems Aim to Aid Drivers, Reduce Urban Congestion
Parking management has become a serious issue for cities that already are struggling with seemingly perpetual traffic congestion in their urban cores. Traffic tie-ups...
Attackers Steal 600K Records From Health Care Firms: Report
A group of attackers infiltrated American health care institutions and stole at least 600,000 patient records and attempted to sell more than 3 terabytes...
Encryption Finally Gaining Widespread Enterprise Adoption
For a long time, encryption was like drinking prune juice or taking castor oil for employees in an enterprise—they only used it when they...
Startup SiFive Aims for Open-Source Chips
The open-source RISC-V chip architecture was created to help developers more easily and cheaply customize processors that run their devices, and last year an...
Facebook Updates Policies Regarding Live Video Content
Facebook's live video feature has received a lot of attention lately because its gazillions of amateur users are beating professional television news crews to...
GE Floats Predix Industrial IoT Platform on Microsoft’s Cloud
Microsoft has enlisted a major new partner in its quest to become a premier provider of cloud-based Internet of things (IoT) software and services.On...
SOASTA, Data.world Help Users Access, Analyze, Optimize Data
SOASTA, a provider of performance analytics solutions, has entered into the realm of companies trying to address the data scientist shortage and enable organizations...
Pokémon GO Mobile App Downloads, Usage Soar After Game Launch
Since the Pokémon GO game app's July 6 release, it has been downloaded to more than 5.16 percent of all Android phones in the...
Facebook Deploying Encrypted, Self-Destructing Messages
Today's topics include Facebook's latest Messenger feature that will allow for "secret conversations," Apple's release of the iOS 10 beta for public testing, the...
Skype Bots Gather Groups, Make Friends With Facebook
Developers can now target group conversations, link with Facebook and generally do more with their Skype bots, courtesy of an update to the Microsoft...