From DailyTech: Sundar Pichai is the new CEO of Google Inc. (GOOG). The maker of the world's most used consumer email webclient, the most used internet search engine, and the world's most used mobile operating system (Android) announced on Monday that CEO Larry Page would be changing roles (more on...
From PC World: As part of its plan to set up to 12 manufacturing facilities in India by 2020, contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is investing US$5 billion in a factory and other facilities in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
The Indian government has been coaxing foreign...
From CNET: September 9 may turn out to be lucky for Apple again.
Buzzfeed on Friday reported Apple will hold its next product launch the week of September 7, with September 9 being the most likely date. The timing would align with Apple's strategies from previous years -- including the iPhone 6...
From ComputerWorld: A talk about a radio-based privacy device dubbed ProxyHam that promised to allow hackers to connect to Wi-Fi networks from as far as 2.5 miles away was abruptly pulled from the DEF CON schedule by its creator a few weeks ago.
The incident, which some speculated was the result...
From InfoWorld: Once-faltering Java is beginning to run away with the Tiobe language popularity index, with the language getting a shot in the arm from last year's Java 8 release.
Previously mired in second place behind the C language for more than a year, Java resumed the top spot in the Tiobe...
Here at APH Networks, we love to tell stories in the introduction of our reviews. I am not entirely sure how this started, but this tradition became one of our unique aspects after being in the industry for the last ten years. There are usually quite a number of sources for our inspiration; ranging from elements intrinsic to the product itself, to snippets of life with people around us. In my Datacolor Spyder4PRO review last year, I told of a...
Last weekend was our annual church-wide summer camp, and it was a great time of hanging out with friends, and getting away from the city. Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan mentioned in his SanDisk Ultra II review about some of his conference traditions, but there were some differences this time around. For example, none of us had a case of missing identity by swapping nametags, nor did we buy engine oil for the fun of it. On the other hand, the...
From ComputerWorld: Data-integration giant Informatica has made itself a private company in a $5.3 billion deal that includes investments from Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
The deal, said to be the biggest leveraged buyout this year, means Informatica's stock ceased trading on the Nasdaq on...
From InfoWorld: IBM plans to buy Merge Healthcare in a $1 billion deal that promises to bring new image-focused capabilities to its Watson Health platform.
Under the terms of the acquisition, which was announced Thursday and is expected to close later this year, Merge shareholders will receive $7...
From PC World: Amazon Web Services now lets companies run Oracle’s database for about 3 cents per hour, while at the same time adding more options for enterprises that want to move high performance workloads to the cloud.
The offering that makes this possible is Amazon RDS (Relational Database...
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