Chris Preimesberger

RCA, which doesn’t stand for Radio Corporation of America anymore but is a brand used by Hong Kong-based Alco Electronics, on Jan. 4 unveiled three new tablets and a 2-and-1 tablet/PC at CES 2017, including the Horizon 17 Android (17.3-inch) and Voyager III (7-inch) tablets. RCA’s Horizon 17 Android All-in-One is designed with family use […]

Imagine storing about 70 hours of 4K video on a single thumb drive. Then throw out imagining this, because a month from now you’ll be able to buy such a device from Kingston Technology. Kingston Technology announced Jan. 4 at CES 2017 that it will release for retail sale what will become the world’s highest-capacity […]

Google and Apple already had their map apps ready to go for their driverless car programs, and Uber last year bought its own map supplier for its new fleet of vehicles. Now Intel is adding map functionality to its growing internet of things business. The world’s largest processor maker revealed Jan. 3 that it is […]

Headlining now at CES 2017: A home security system that doesn’t use cameras, a smart bicycle with touchscreen display and a patio umbrella with the intelligence to rotate toward the sun at all times. These are but three of thousands of new and intriguing products that debuted Jan. 3 at the International Consumer Electronics Show, […]

There was intriguing news for storage admins Jan. 3: Intel may have created the missing link between high-capacity, slower-moving mechanical SATA disk drives and actual speed. The world’s largest processor maker unveiled its new Optane Memory modules and a corresponding Intel Optane Memory Ready program with the idea that this new-gen bridge eventually will rescue […]

The International Consumer Electronics Show 2017, which opens Jan. 3 in Las Vegas, is expected to attract 177,000 attendees for its five-day run at several locations in the desert city. This is the only time in the year in which one will see widely disparate companies such as Ford, Lenovo, Seagate LaCie, Dok Wireless, Dell, […]

There are more than a few internal enterprise social networks competing for deployments in a cutthroat market right now. Some of the ones you may know are Slack, Facebook for Business, Jive, Convo, Google+, Cisco Jabber, Jostle, Microsoft Teams, VMware Socialcast, Salesforce Chatter, SocialText, IBM Connections and Tibbr. Most of them have their built-in constituencies, […]

Ransomware infiltrations in enterprises increased by 35 percent in 2016, according to consensus of security industry analysts and vendors, including Symantec. But even more alarming is the recent rise in its sophistication and distribution. Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system’s screen […]

Chipmaker Qualcomm, which provides the electronic brains for Android smartphones around the world, is ending 2016 with legal trouble in the Far East, but it doesn’t have anything to do with processors. South Korea on Dec. 27 slapped Qualcomm with a $852.9 million fine for alleged antitrust violations involving its patent licensing business. The Korea […]

Now that the holidays are behind us, the next week or so should be the time for enterprises to plan their 2017 digital marketing strategies. IT in general, especially in the mobile app world, has been trending toward making apps faster, safer, more efficient and easier to use. Customers actively seek these qualities. According to […]

10 Predictions for the Data Analytics Market for 2017 The data preparation and analytics space has seen tremendous growth in 2016, including the rise of self-service tools. What’s in store for the space next year? Data Socialization Will Be the Big Thing Self-service analytics has unintentionally caused the data landscape in many companies to become […]

Storage IT has evolved significantly during the past 10 years, particularly since Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service in early 2006, adding a whole new dimension by bringing the cloud into the mainstream enterprise. This IT sector is a prime example of the data center convergence and hyper-convergence trends. While the size of the storage […]