Monthly Archives: August 2016
Ford Ramps Up Silicon Valley Autonomous Car Development Effort
The Ford Motor Company is making a major step into autonomous vehicles, but it's moving carefully into this automotive technology.The company announced on August...
Honor Preparing to Bring Its Flagship Smartphones to U.S. Market
SAN FRANCISCO—As Chinese smartphone maker Huawei surveyed the global handset marketplace in 2012, the power of the internet and the difficulties and expense of...
Windows Holographic to Materialize on PCs in 2017
Outside the Redmond, Wash., tech titan's own labs, the only way to experience Windows Holographic, Microsoft's "mixed-reality" technology, is with HoloLens (pictured). With its...
Moscow Court Rejects Google Appeal of $6.8M Fine
A Russian court rejected Google's appeal of a lower court finding in an antitrust case involving the company's Android bundling practices.The decision by Moscow's...
Skype Gets a Makeover, Group Calling in Windows 10 Mobile
Skype looks different after the Windows Anniversary Update, on both PCs and smartphones.Two weeks after Microsoft began rolling out the update for PCs and...
Cisco Systems Posts Good Numbers yet Will Trim 5,500 Jobs
Cisco Systems sold products and services worth $12.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016 and $48 billion in fiscal 2016, but all that...
Intel Unveils Upcoming Xeon Phi Chip Aimed at AI Workloads
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel last week took a significant step in the artificial intelligence space with the planned acquisition of startup Nervana Systems, a move that...
Honor Unveils Its First Flagship Smartphone for the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO—Huawei's budget smartphone division, Honor, has launched its new Honor 8 premium phone, marking the company's first flagship phone specifically aimed at U.S....
Nearly a Third of Users Fall for Phishing
A month ago, Duo Security publicly released its free Duo Insight tool, enabling organizations to test responses to phishing attacks. The results of the...
Hackers Offer to Sell Alleged NSA Equation Group Cyber-Tools
Today's topics include Shadow Broker's claim that it stole cyber-weapons stolen from the Equation Group, Google's new Fuchsia Open-Source operating system project, Salesforce's introduction...