Alibaba eyes cloud computing expansion with $1 billion investment

From PC World: Enterprise customers can expect to hear more from e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The Chinese company is accelerating the global expansion of its cloud computing business, with a US$1 billion investment.

Alibaba announced the move on Wednesday, months after it opened its first data...

Windows 10 roll-out will break Internet traffic records

From InfoWorld: Microsoft will break Internet traffic records this week as it begins to distribute Windows 10, a content delivery expert said Monday.

"Windows 10 ... will easily be the largest day/week of traffic ever on the Internet," said Dan Rayburn, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan who also...

IDC cuts forecast for mobile management software sales

From ComputerWorld: Sales of mobile management software will grow at a slower pace over the next few years but will still top $2.9 billion in 2019, according to IDC’s latest forecast.

The projected annual sales growth by multiple enterprise mobility management software (EMM) vendors globally will...

Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play, updates Moto G

From CNET: Motorola, a unit of Chinese consumer electronics giant Lenovo, unveiled the Moto X Style. In the US, it will be known as the Moto X Pure Edition, which will have universal LTE banding, allowing it to work in any carrier. It will cost $399 unlocked. The company also unveiled the Moto Play...

Apple expands Watch sales into Best Buy

From ComputerWorld: Best Buy yesterday announced that it will begin selling the Apple Watch in 100 of its U.S. stores, about 10% of its total outlet count, starting Aug. 7.

The retailer will be the first national chain in the U.S. to sell the Apple Watch, not a surprise since it is one of Apple's...

Mozilla to launch new Firefox feature testing program

From InfoWorld: Mozilla plans to launch a new testing program next month that will let Firefox users try out potential changes to the browser, according to documents published by the open-source developer.

Dubbed "Idea Town" for now, the opt-in program is to kick off Aug. 11 with a teaser in the...

IBM launches its data warehouse service into the cloud

From PC World: Jumping into an increasingly competitive market, IBM has launched a cloud-based data warehouse service, which the company says offers a way for enterprises to analyze their operations while bypassing most of the headaches that come with running such a system in-house.

“You used to...

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