From PC World: Oracle is acquiring cloud startup Ravello in a deal reportedly worth $500 million.
Founded by the team that created the KVM hypervisor, Ravello offers what it calls "nested virtualization" software, with the goal of enabling enterprises to use popular public clouds as an extension of...
From InfoWorld: Samsung announced its next-generation flagship smartphones on Sunday as expected -- the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge running Android 6 (Marshmallow).
Both phones look strikingly similar to last year's models (the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge), but include features like a return to...
From PC World: The designer of the graphics chips for the iPhone 6s and HTC One M9+ is setting its sights lower for its next generation of products, a move that spells good news for mobile gamers with a smaller budget.
Imagination Technologies is improving the performance of its graphics chip...
From CNET: Nokia smartphones will be a thing again. Maybe in 2016, but maybe not.
The Finnish company confirmed Sunday at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona that it's pressing ahead with plans to sell smartphones. It just doesn't know when.
"There's no timeline, there's no rush,"...
From InfoWorld: HP targeted security-conscious business users and IT with Sunday’s announcement of the Elite x3 smartphone that runs Windows 10 Mobile. It ships this summer.
HP designed the system so that workers can run basic Microsoft Office productivity apps across a large desktop keyboard...
Surprises can elicit a variety of reactions, whether positive or negative, but it depends on the nature of the surprise. For example, one Sunday morning, I was looking around when I casually glanced over at one of my friends. Everything seemed normal, until I realized she was standing there without her usual glasses on. I went over and inquired about her missing spectacles. She looked at me and said, "Do not laugh, but I dropped my laptop on my...
It has been more than a month since CES in Las Vegas ended, and when I came back, the first thing I was asked was what I thought the most interesting thing was. For me, it is kind of difficult to really give a single answer for a several reasons. First is the fact the show covered a wide variety of areas; each with their own cool points. There were all the hyped products like driverless cars, wearables, IoT, virtual reality, and consumer-grade...
From InfoWorld: Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website's password recovery feature.
The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last week, but the company alerted affected users on...
From PC World: ARM has added a wealth of wireless technologies to its arsenal, but has no immediate plans to design a modem for mobile or Internet of Things devices.
The company offers CPU and GPU designs that are widely used in smartphones and tablets. A missing piece is a cellular modem that ARM...
From CNET: The venerable Swiss wristwatch industry may have a smartwatch problem.
Global shipments of smartwatches outpaced those of Swiss watches in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to figures released Thursday by market researcher Strategy Analytics. This marks the first time the wearable...
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