In March 2014, three weeks before I was supposed to receive my Iron Ring, I received an email from the undergraduate office at the university. "It appears that you are missing one tech elective," the program coordinator explained. "Being deficient in a tech elective will make you ineligible for both the Iron Ring ceremony and graduation in June. In light of this, I will have to remove your name from the Iron Ring list." At that point, my heart...
From ComputerWorld: IBM's Internet of Things platform can now work with IoT processors designed by ARM, thanks to a new partnership between the two companies.
"People can use ARM chipsets to build IoT applications and analytics in an easy, productive way, without worrying about how to glue things...
From InfoWorld: Google Compute Engine, the company’s IaaS cloud computing offering, got a face-lift today with the announcement that new autoscaling features and 32-core VMs would be available to the general public.
Autoscaler, according to an official blog post, is the same system that Google...
From PC World: Mozilla hopes to have its version of Firefox for iOS devices out by year’s end as part of its push to grow its share of mobile traffic.
Mozilla already offers Firefox on Android, but the OS makes up just a sliver of total Web traffic on mobile, easily surpassed by Google’s Chrome...
From CNET: BlackBerry is making a new acquisition that could help it win over more business customers.
On Friday, BlackBerry announced that it has agreed to purchase Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Based in California, Good Technology offers secure email, applications and communications...
From ComputerWorld: A court in California has approved a $415 million settlement between tech workers and Intel, Google, Apple and Adobe Systems, who were accused of conspiring to prevent the poaching of each other's employees.
The final approval has, however, reduced significantly the sums to be...
From InfoWorld: Intel launched a new family of mainstream processors on Wednesday -- an important step for the company which has had trouble keeping up in a marketplace that is increasing defined by mobile devices.
The chips were previously known by their "Skylake" code-name but with their launch...
From PC World: Qualcomm's introducing its Snapdragon 820 processor using the latest and most annoying trend in tech: dribble out one small detail at a time over the span of weeks. We've already heard about the GPU/ISP and the DSP, and now Qualcomm is talking about the Kyro CPU. Unfortunately, the...
From CNET: Samsung talked up its first UHD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500, during an event Thursday at a press conference at the IFA electronics show here. The player is capable of providing four times the resolution and 64 times higher color expression compared to standard Blu-ray and can upscale...
From InfoWorld: There has been a lot of confusion surrounding the Aug. 11 security patch MS15-04/KB 3076895, which broke several products from Symantec, IBM -- even Microsoft itself. It took more than two weeks for Microsoft to recognize that the Patch Tuesday offering had conflicts with the...
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