IBM pumping more horsepower into Watson successors
IBM is pumping more horsepower into servers based on its Power architecture, which is best known for arming the Watson supercomputer to outperform humans in game show "Jeopardy." read more
IBM is pumping more horsepower into servers based on its Power architecture, which is best known for arming the Watson supercomputer to outperform humans in game show "Jeopardy." read more
Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were compromised in a cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase but no “unusual” fraud has yet been detected. All told, 76 million households and 7 million small businesses were affected, the bank wrote in a 8-K filing Thursday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. …
The network said Thursday that it researches all kinds of things and isn't going to stop, but it plans to be more responsible. read more
Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were compromised in a cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase but no "unusual" fraud has yet been detected. read more
Work Chat, a full-fledged collaboration tool available by the end of 2014, will let users share notes, talk to each other, and work together in real-time across platforms. read more
A new Google project aims to create nothing less than an open standard for the entire "Internet of Things," which the company's Chrome team is calling the Physical Web. read more
A security researcher has found another flaw in the Android browser that a cybercriminal could use to steal sensitive data. read more
"Internet of things" standards groups are rallying the troops for efforts to make thermostats, door locks, sensors and other connected devices find each other and share information. read more
Google dropped its cloud computing prices and other vendors are expected to follow suit, but the lower pricing may not be the key lure for attracting enterprises to the cloud. read more
Researchers say Facebook has a ways to go yet toward injecting more transparency and ethics into its research practices. read more
Worldwide semiconductor revenue will grow at a fast pace this year but will slow down in 2016 when the DRAM market hits its next bust cycle, according to Gartner. read more
Facebook is promising to be more careful about how it conducts research on users, with a deeper review process by top managers when particular groups of people or types of content are studied on the site. However, the company did not say whether it would include outside researchers or regulators …
H-1B whistleblower Jay Palmer filed a civil lawsuit Thursday against Infosys, in another bid for damages over allegations of ill-treatment. It is Palmer’s second attack in federal court, but it takes a new approach by citing the whistleblower protections in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Palmer was an employee of …
As part of Windows 10, Microsoft will consolidate its multiple app stores and for the first time offer an app volume purchase program. Microsoft will be following in the footsteps of its OS rival Apple, which introduced volume purchasing programs for both business and education — the latter an important …
When Ken Griffin, the director of IT operations for Harvard Business Publishing, warned his staff, "12 months from now, those servers are being switched off," his message was crystal clear — there's no going back, learn the cloud or step aside. read more
Samsung is frightened, and you know it. Look at the evidence: China is following the rest of the planet to go iPhone crazy with two million iPhone 6 units pre-ordered within hours. Apple has already shifted ten million of its new smartphone. You can see what’s happening. To read this …
AT&T's NetBond service for secure access to third-party clouds will soon work with the biggest one of all, Amazon Web Services. read more
To my surprise, I have been seeing storage performance results reported using server benchmarks and their associated server metrics. Server benchmarks are specifically designed to measure the maximum performance of the server — NOT the storage. Even if external storage is used in the benchmarked system, server benchmarks entail maximizing …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission engaged in the worst kind of “partisan politics” by working closely with net neutrality advocates to ensure their comments were filed with the agency, but not extending the same courtesy to the other side, a coalition of groups opposed to the regulations said in a …
A supercomputer upgrade is paying off for the U.S. National Weather Service, with new high-resolution models that will offer better insight into severe weather. The improvement is easy to see in the depiction (below) showing the difference between the older and newer model. In a six-hour forecast on a moving …
While Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison hyped up the company's burgeoning aspirations in cloud computing during OpenWorld this week, many customers in attendance had their minds focused more on life in the trenches, where matters such as upgrading aging ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) systems remain crucial but risky affairs. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission engaged in the worst kind of "partisan politics" by working closely with net neutrality advocates to ensure their comments were filed with the agency, but not extending the same courtesy to the other side, a coalition of groups opposed to the regulations said in a …
The new Windows is the old Windows, improved Image by Microsoft Although Microsoft is skipping a whole version number for the next Windows version, which will ship some time next year, the early version of Windows 10 it showed off Tuesday was mostly composed of commonsense fixes to Windows 8, …
Booksellers have met with European Commission officials to discuss their concerns that Amazon holds a monopoly in the online book market. The booksellers urged the commission to make sure that consumers will have a rich and diversified online book offering, said Françoise Dubruille, director of the European and International Booksellers …
Matchstick, a startup out of San Jose, is planning to release an HDMI dongle that will compete with Google’s Chromecast but uses the Firefox OS and costs $25 instead of $35. In June, news of the device’s impending announcement leaked when a Mozilla evangelist tweeted a photo of a prototype. …
A conservative group that sent 2.4 million letters to Congress opposed to net neutrality regulations didn’t collect signatures from 2.4 million people, although the group’s news release says the letters added millions of new voices to the debate. Instead, American Commitment, an advocacy group with ties to the Republican billionaire …