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IBM Q4 Revenues Down, Strategic Imperatives Up
IBM announced total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 of $22.1 billion, down 9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014; and net...
AMD Suffers Through Difficult 2015 but Remains Optimistic
Advanced Micro Devices has a lot of moving parts, from a rapidly expanding graphics division and new processors for business PCs to the newly...
Why the Amazon Echo Means Business
Amazon is working on a new Echo virtual assistant appliance.The product, code-named Fox, is reportedly about the size of a can of coke and...
Mercedes Turns to the Industrial Strength Cloud for Quality Assurance
STUTTGART, Germany—I was transfixed as the huge yellow robot swung the front portion of a car's chassis around as if it weighed nothing. Then,...
Companies’ Confidence in Their Security Stance Wanes: Cisco Report
Over the course of 2015, the overall level of confidence that organizations had in how secure they were declined marginally from 2014, according to...
Axway Acquires Appcelerator to Build Out Mobile Platform
Software management provider Axway revealed Jan. 19 that it has acquired Appcelerator, which makes a mobile engagement platform that enables optimal app experiences for...
Microsoft Previews Windows 10-Powered POS Systems
At this week's Big Show, the National Retail Federation's conference in New York City, Microsoft is showing off a Windows 10 point-of-sale (POS) solution...
Google, Others Support Samsung in Apple Patent Dispute
Google joined a slew of technology companies, legal professionals and intellectual property experts in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a design patent...
Bot Fraud Triggers Billions in Advertising Losses
Automated bots are costing advertisers an estimated $7.2 billion, according to a new study conducted by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and security...
Microsoft Acquires Maker of Minecraft for the Classroom
Having already achieved commercial success among video gamers, Microsoft is now on a mission to bring Minecraft to classrooms.The company is acquiring MinecraftEdu from...