From PC World: Oracle has launched a number of new cloud services that the company claims will provide enterprises with all the tools they need to run their operations in the cloud.
“We’re now able to call our cloud services complete, with today’s announcement. You can now move all your...
From CNET: Verizon and AOL are officially hitched, closing a $4.4 billion tie-up the companies unveiled last month.
AOL, which started as one of the most prominent pioneers of the early Internet, will now become a subsidiary of Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the US. Despite that lesser...
From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) can expect that Japan would be somewhat of a challenging market, given national pride in its domestic rivals of Microsoft -- PS4-maker Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) and Wii U/Nintendo 3DS-crafter Nintendo Comp., Ltd. (TYO:7974). Still, given a market of 120 million...
From ComputerWorld: Apple quietly stopped selling the original iPad Mini, the 7.9-in. tablet that debuted in 2012.
The smaller sibling to the 9.7-in. iPad no longer appears on Apple's online store, a fact first reported by 9to5Mac.com earlier Friday.
The iPad Mini had been superseded by a pair of...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Friday said it would soon tweak the Windows 10 preview program as its engineers push toward the July 29 launch of the final code to customers.
As of the next build to the Windows Insider program, Microsoft will require that participants associate their Microsoft Account...
From PC World: Fingerprint authentication will become a lot more common on smartphones of all prices as sensors get cheaper—and Google’s integration of the technology in the next version of Android will make it much easier for app developers and service providers to make use of them.
Today...
From CNET: Sony has confirmed that it will offer a 1-terabyte edition of its PlayStation 4.
The new 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition will launch in select European and PAL territories starting July 15, Sony said in a blog post published Monday. PAL is the video standard used across most of the world...
Taking a short trip down memory lane, I could still remember the days when I was still in elementary, and would be ecstatic when the teacher announced there will be group projects in the class. This was a time of exploring the computers at school, and doing online activities to find out more information about the material we were learning about. The first project I was assigned in my Grade 4 geography class was a project about the different types...
Sometimes, combining two ideas together create an absolutely ingenious solution. Other times, you end up with something so pointless, it gets you simply nowhere. The camera phone is a prime example of an ingenious solution. As the saying goes, "The best camera you have is the one you have with you." With the popularity explosion of the mobile phone in the last two decades or so, integrating a camera onto it revolutionized the world in more than...
From InfoWorld: Web apps and pages may soon get a speed boost to rival the performance of native desktop and mobile applications, thanks to a new standards initiative from Microsoft, Google and Mozilla.
The work, WebAssembly, provides a way to compile the source code for the programmatic parts of...
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