From ComputerWorld: Sony has reached an agreement to acquire chip company Altair Semiconductor for $212 million in a bid to strengthen its offering for the Internet of Things market.
Altair, based in Israel, is a developer of modem chip technology and software relating to the LTE (Long Term...
From PC World: Fans of multi-monitor desktop setups might want to keep an eye on LG and Samsung, who’ve got a bunch of extreme widescreen panels in the pipeline—ones even longer than the stretched-out LG 34UM67 FreeSync monitor pictured above.
Samsung, for instance, is working on 41-inch and 49...
From CNET: Ever wanted to use PayPal to make purchases on Amazon? Don't hold your breath.
That's the message Amazon Payments' vice president Patrick Gauthier offered in an interview with CNET on Monday when asked whether his company might someday bring PayPal's digital payments service to Amazon...
From InfoWorld: The worldwide market for public cloud systems is projected to hit $204 billion this year, a 16.5 percent increase over the $175 billion market in 2015, according to analyst firm Gartner.
"The market for public cloud services is continuing to demonstrate high rates of growth across...
From PC World: If secretive new hardware from the big dogs in PC graphics gets your mouth watering, the VRLA virtual reality event in Los Angeles was the place to be this weekend. Both Nvidia and AMD were at the event, showing off unreleased VR-related gear to attendees.
The most surprising...
From CNET: Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey announced the departure of multiple department heads on Sunday, marking the biggest management shakeup since he returned to run the social network in mid-2015.
Leaving the company are head of media Katie Jacobs Stanton, product chief Kevin Weil...
From ComputerWorld: Shipments of PCs with Google's Chrome OS are growing at the expense of Windows laptops and desktops, as the PC market suffers through its biggest slump since 2008.
Especially popular are Chromebooks, which are basic Chrome OS laptops for Web computing. Low-price Chromebooks are...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft's Windows chief, Terry Myerson, has posted a rambling blog, "Windows 10 embracing silicon innovation," that had little to do with Windows 10 or silicon (processor chip) innovation. Instead, for those who read far enough, it revealed that Microsoft will not provide critical...
If I asked you what the fastest way to transfer 8TB of data from New York to Los Angeles is, what would your answer be? If you answered anything along the line of establishing a Gigabit connection over a fiber optic network of some sort, then you are wrong. Even if that connection speed was sustainable -- and I am betting it probably is not -- it would take nearly eighteen hours for this task to complete. On the other hand, a quick online search...
When I lived in South Africa, our house had an area covered in ivy, with a little rock path leading through it. We had four dogs; one of which was a Jack Russell terrier. The other three dogs were two Labradors and a pretty aggressive Dachshund. One of the Labradors was a really big dog, but he was a teddy bear at heart, and never got mad or aggressive. The Jack Russell terrier was the interesting one I will be telling a story of today. All of...
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