From CNET: Amazon said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Souq.com, one of the biggest e-commerce players in the Arab World
Souq, which means marketplace in Arabic, started in 2005 and now sells over 400,000 products including electronics, clothes and household goods. The deal had been rumored to reach...
From InfoWorld: IT administrators who manage a fleet of Skype for Business users will have an easier time of diagnosing and fixing problems that may arise for them. Microsoft unveiled the beta of a new Call Analytics Dashboard on Monday, which is supposed to provide admins with a diagnosis of issues...
From PC World: Intel’s spanking new high-capacity Optane SSD is cool, but drives from other storage vendors based on the 3D Xpoint technology could be coming later this year.
Micron will start shipping its 3D Xpoint memory technology—branded QuantX — later this year, which will go into SSDs...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft has delayed the release of its tools for connecting other services to the Cortana virtual assistant, a decision that could cause it to lose ground in a crowded industry.
The tech titan announced the Cortana Skills Kit in December of last year, saying at the time that it...
From PC World: Nearly 20 years after its release and StarCraft is still one of the best real-time strategy games ever made. So good, in fact, that it’s retained a dedicated fan base even with a modern sequel—three modern sequels, really—released and ready to play. And so maybe it’s time for a...
From CNET: A Beijing court has overturned a previous ruling that Apple infringed a design patent of Chinese company Shenzhen Baili and has declared Baili's claims to be unfounded, reports the AFP.
Apple didn't have an easy time in China last year. In 2016 the Chinese government shut down Apple's...
From PC World: Messaging has never been Google’s strong suit. Aside from the various messaging apps from Android phone makers, it also has its own problems, with numerous overlapping apps that all have similar functions: Allo, Android Messages, Hangouts, Duo, Google Voice, and Google Talk. Now...
If you have ever paid attention in a university engineering lecture, you will notice there are always interesting things going on. By "interesting", I really do not mean what the professor is talking about -- honestly, deriving equations and solving them is of little interest to most people. What I do mean are the interactions between students. A few years ago, I was in a first year C++ programming class, and I overheard one female student...
As a lab teaching assistant for first year undergraduate students in engineering, I occasionally get really interesting questions. In fact, I was asked a really good question during an electrical circuits lab a few weeks ago. The lab itself was pretty easy. Students just needed to build a bunch of simple circuits using only resistors. A guy came to me and asked, "Can you explain to me how a digital watch’s circuit works?" I found it was extremely...
From InfoWorld: Uber Technologies has agreed to provide next month its diversity data, which it had earlier declined to make public.
Representatives of the ride hailing company will disclose the information at the PUSHTech2020 summit on April 19 in Silicon Valley.
The move comes at a time when the...
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