Amazon has unveiled a bold vision for integrating drones into the skies above our cities, proposing drone superhighways that would crisscross the sky and enable thousands of unmanned vehicles to fly at high speeds under completely automated control. The proposal, delivered at a key industry conference in Silicon Valley on …
Amazon has unveiled a bold vision for integrating drones into the skies above our cities, proposing drone superhighways that would crisscross the sky and enable thousands of unmanned vehicles to fly at high speeds under completely automated control. The proposal, delivered at a key industry conference in Silicon Valley on …
China’s Huawei started work this past Saturday on a 4,000-kilometer fiber-optic cable project that will deliver high-speed Internet access to residents of Guinea, and could serve other West African countries when it’s completed in 2017. The cable will offer 77 exchange points and make Guinea the first West African country …
Amazon is opening a specialized storefront on its website that will sell products from startups in an effort to help the fledging companies build their businesses. Called Launchpad, the site lists approximately 200 items with an emphasis on tech gadgets, like a US$649 drone or a $150 floating Bluetooth speaker. …
A week after it was revealed that a Chrysler Jeep could be hacked and remotely controlled, two U.S. senators have called for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate potential widespread risk for consumers. In a letter to NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind, U.S. Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard …
Sales of mobile management software will grow at a slower pace over the next few years but will still top $2.9 billion in 2019, according to IDC’s latest forecast. The projected annual sales growth by multiple enterprise mobility management software (EMM) vendors globally will slide from last year’s 27% growth …
President Obama should oppose legislation intended to let businesses share cyberthreat information with each other and with government agencies because the bill would allow the sharing of too much personal information, a coalition of digital rights groups and security experts said. The coalition of 39 digital rights and privacy groups …
U.S. President Barack Obama won’t pardon National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, despite strong public support for it, the White House said Tuesday. A petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling for Obama to pardon Snowden has nearly 168,000 signatures, but that’s not enough to sway the president, said Lisa Monaco, Obama’s advisor …
Almost three quarters of OpenDaylight users plan to use the open source SDN technology for Network Functions Virtualization, while over half are looking at it for cloud orchestration. Those are two of the findings of the first survey conducted by the OpenDaylight Project on its own users, the results of …
Uh, hey, amigos? Did someone just order a ton of new unlocked Android phones? Apparently, someone did — because four new low-cost Android devices have shown up over the past 24 hours. And that’s adding onto yet another one launched just last week. It practically takes a full-time job to …
Google will now let enterprise customers of one of its Cloud Platform services lock up their data with their own encryption keys, in case they’re concerned about the company snooping on their corporate information. Google on Tuesday started offering users of its Compute Engine service the option, in beta, to …
Mobile apps now figure almost as prominently in enterprises as they do in the consumer world, and on Tuesday Salesforce rolled out some new DIY tools that aim to help business users “roll their own” apps as needs arise. Building on the Lightning platform Salesforce launched late last year, the …
Following the trend of privacy-respecting products and projects coming out of Europe (e.g., ownCloud, Kolab, and Plasma Mobile), German firm struktur AG has started a Kickstarter project called Spreedbox, which aims to offer a secure audio video conferencing service. According to the project page, “The Spreedbox is a unique device …
President Barack Obama won’t pardon National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, despite strong public support for it, the White House said Tuesday. A petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling for Obama to pardon Snowden has nearly 168,000 signatures, but that’s not enough to sway the president, said Lisa Monaco, Obama’s advisor on …
The former administrator of Darkode, the online cybercrime forum that was recently shut down by law enforcement agencies, is preparing to bring it back, with better security and privacy for its members. On July 15, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Darkode hacking forum where cybercriminals had gathered …
It’s a few days before Windows 10 is officially slated to drop, and still, confusion abounds. Worse, many fallacies regarding Microsoft’s plans around upgrades and support for Win10 remain in circulation, despite efforts to dispel them. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here …
Google will now let enterprise customers of one of its Cloud Platform services lock up their data with their own encryption keys, in case they’re concerned about the company snooping on their corporate information. On Tuesday, Google started offering users of its Compute Engine service the option, in beta, to …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Mead Johnson Nutrition Company has agreed to settle charges that its Chinese subsidiary made improper payments to health care professionals at government-owned hospitals to recommend the company’s infant formula to patients who were new or expectant mothers. Mead Johnson Nutrition agreed …
Motorola announced three new Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) phones on Tuesday, including a high-end model that will be sold this fall in the U.S. as the Moto X Style Pure Edition, starting at the low price of $400 unlocked. Analysts said despite Motorola’s pitch of offering new phones at relatively low …
To fill computers’ voracious appetite for data, Intel and Micron say they’ve developed the first new kind of memory since NAND flash was introduced in 1989. The new technology, 3D XPoint, is a form of non-volatile memory that’s as much as 1,000 times faster than NAND flash, the companies say. …
To fill computers’ voracious appetite for data, Intel and Micron say they’ve developed the first new kind of memory since NAND flash was introduced in 1989. The new technology, 3D XPoint, is a form of non-volatile memory that’s as much as 1,000 times faster than NAND flash, the companies say. …
Microsoft has begun downloading the Windows 10 upgrade to some PCs whose owners had previously “reserved” a copy, hinting that those customers will be among the first to see the upgrade notice on their Windows 7 and 8.1 devices. Microsoft Once the upgrade has been deposited on a PC and …
As European Union lawmakers in the Commission, Parliament and Council debate a new data protection law, the EU’s data protection watchdog has chimed in, expressing some concerns and saying individuals’ privacy rights should be at the core of the legislation. Although he is perhaps best placed to offer an opinion …
In this age of digital disruption, some companies — Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Uber and Airbnb, among them — are doing things right. A highly positive digital customer experience drives customer satisfaction, which in turn leads to increased revenues and ongoing customer loyalty for businesses. Consumers now expect and even demand the same …
Google is now requiring that publishers that carry its ads comply with a European Union directive and ask their site visitors’ for permission before setting cookies on their computers. Google spelled out the requirement in its new EU User Consent Policy for publishers that participate in services including AdSense, DoubleClick …
Chinese vendor OnePlus has done it again and produced a powerful smartphone at a bargain price. The company unveiled its second-generation Android phone, the OnePlus 2, on Tuesday. It comes with all the cutting-edge specs you’d expect from a flagship handset, but starts at only $329 when bought without a …