The largest smart city project in North America is moving closer to reality in Kansas City, Mo., mainly along a 2.2-mile streetcar line under construction through the downtown. The Kansas City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to direct its city manager to finalize a contract with Cisco and its partners …
We’ve been talking about deploying solid-state drives (SSDs) in the data center for years now, but it’s never been a more exciting time to talk data center storage. Modern enterprise tools, including cloud, big data, the Internet of Things, and software-defined infrastructures are opening up new opportunities and amazing new …
The U.S. military has successfully demonstrated what it says is the first ever in-flight refueling of an unmanned aircraft, and in doing so completed a flight test program that leads to a new generation of military drones due to take flight in the 2020s. The refueling was conducted on April …
A year ago, Acer was struggling and Jason Chen, its newly appointed CEO, thought the company could stay afloat by cutting its reliance on PCs and expanding in wearables and mobile devices. In view of the success of its Chromebooks and the pending release of Microsoft’s Windows 10, however, Chen …
The Apple Watch’s sensor may hold more health monitoring functions than Apple has revealed, including measuring blood oxygen levels, a feature that’s not enabled on the device and that Apple hasn’t talked about. That’s one of the findings from iFixIt, which disassembled an Apple Watch Sport Edition on the day …
The construction of the Apple Watch will make in-place upgrades extremely difficult if not impossible, an electronics repair firm said today. “Despite rumors (and hopes) of an upgradable product, the difficulty of removing the S1 alone casts serious doubt on the idea of simply swapping out the internals,” said iFixit, …
Just got your hands on an Apple Watch? Congratulations, you’re in the vanguard of digital transformation as computing becomes wearable and those apps define new space in the world. However, if you’ve hit a problem with your new wearable, here’s what to do…. Don’t panic There’s no need to panic. …
Ubuntu 15.04 reviews Ubuntu 15.04 was just released, and there are some early reviews of Canonical’s latest desktop distribution. So far the buzz seems somewhat mixed, and that’s not surprising since Ubuntu 15.04 is a relatively low-key release without lots of flashy, new features. Darien Graham-Smith at PC Pro wasn’t …
Those who hand out the Ig Nobel prizes, awarded for the most outlandish scientific research, would do well to check up on CHI. At the 2015 Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI) in Seoul this week, there was no shortage of bizarre projects and concepts, all undertaken to innovate the way we …
Consumer groups are cheering the news that Comcast abandoned its proposed US$45 billion acquisition of fellow cable and broadband provider Time Warner Cable, saying it’s good for customers and demonstrates the power of Internet activism. Comcast’s decision, announced Friday, would have taken away a major cable and broadband provider in …
Consumer groups are cheering the news that Comcast abandoned its proposed $45 billion acquisition of fellow cable and broadband provider Time Warner Cable, saying it’s good for customers and demonstrates the power of Internet activism. Comcast’s decision, first leaked on Thursday and then confirmed Friday, would have taken away a …
Dell this week extended its arsenal of data center Ethernet switches, highlighted by a 100G device with ports dividable into 25G and 50G channels. 25G and 50G Ethernet are becoming popular options for data centers looking to fill the bandwidth gap between 10G and 40G for server-to-top-of-rack switch connectivity. Products …
Some of the world’s leading cryptographers are concerned about the increasing number of malicious programs that hold computers and mobile phones to ransom, in many cases by abusing the encryption algorithms they designed. Despite law enforcement efforts to disrupt ransomware operations, the prevalence of such programs continued to grow last …
Even the cloud needs spring cleaning. And the cleanup isn’t the refactoring and data quality work that you already know about. Those “big animals” are hard to miss, and now we need to pay attention to the mites and dust-bunnies that we noticed only when they become overwhelming. To read …
Some enterprises that are happy to put their data in a public cloud prefer to keep the keys to that data under their own control. That’s the message some online file sync and sharing services are sending lately. On Wednesday, EMC’s Syncplicity division announced Customer Managed Keys, a feature that …
Comcast is officially walking away from plans to acquire Time Warner Cable, after regulators signaled their displeasure with the deal. “Today, we move on,” Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said in a statement. “Of course, we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities, but we …
Too many regulators had too many problems with making the largest cable provider even larger. …
Indian outsourcer Infosys has made an acquisition in the area of cloud computing and invested in a personal health monitoring company as it tries to move into high value products and services. The transition is, however, taking time and in the financial results the company reported Friday its revenue and …
В начале этого года на выставке Mobile World Congress 2015 компания Acer показала свой первый смартфон на базе операционной системы Windows Phone 8.1. Теперь Acer официально объявила, что Liquid M220 уже в июне текущего года появится на прилавках магазинов Microsoft, а также на сайте Microsoft Store. Acer Liquid M220 получил необычный внешний вид, …
Comcast: Let’s call the whole thing off Just one day after a U.S. regulator was said to be calling for hearings on the proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable come reports that Comcast is ready to abandon the tie-up, and may make an announcement on Friday. …
Компания Lenovo официально представила свой новый аппарат, который будет известен как K80. Новинка построена на базе 64-битного процессора Intel Atom, работающий на тактовой частоте 1.2 ГГц. Новинка обладает 5.5-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 1920 на 1080 точек, 4 Гб оперативной памяти и 64 Гб на встроенном накопителе. Основная камера получила 13-Мегапиксельную матрицу с …
If you feel like you need eyes in the back of your head, there’s a crowdsourcing app for that. Zensors is a smartphone application that can monitor an area of interest by using a camera, crowdsourced workers and artificial intelligence. Developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University of …
Microsoft’s Q3 financial results were officially reported yesterday. And as always, to mark the occasion, bloggers put on their analyst/numerologist hats and go by the numbers. Bloggers share the official profit and loss statements, adding a few statements of their own: Observations, opinions, and predictions of Microsoft’s future. In IT …
Project Fi, Google’s Wi-Fi and cellular network service announced Wednesday, can variously be described as low-cost, disruptive, cutting edge, tantalizing, confusing, even awesome. Google is offering the lowest entry-level wireless price plan in the U.S. at $30 a month. That sum includes $20 for talk, text, Wi-Fi tethering and international …
В игре Mortal Kombat X обнаружили секретную битву, которую разработчики оставили в качестве пасхалки. Несмотря на обнаружение таинственной находки, геймеры остались несколько разочарованными. …
This company prides itself on staying sharp when it comes to technology — with full staffing for IT, continuing education and plenty of attention paid to users’ complaints, reports a pilot fish on the scene. “If there’s an issue, we tend to move and solve it quickly,” fish says. “There …