iPhone users in the US will now be able to stream what’s happening to them on the go via Facebook’s new live video feature. Although the feature is only available to people in the US Facebook announced that live video will be rolled-out to the rest of the world in the “coming weeks”. The feature, similar to that of Twitter Inc.’s Periscope, was first introduced in December last year but only to a small number of people. It’s now available to anyone in the US with an iPhone and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store right now. Facebook has... more »

Microsoft has made Ubuntu available on the technical preview of Azure Stack, it's newly release private and hybrid cloud bundle for on-premises deployment. Released earlier this week, Azure Stack is a technology bundle that allows customers to build the Azure Cloud in their own data centers. And although you'll need some pretty sophisticated hardware to run it, it's a kind of compromise, if you like, for customers who cannot or will not move to the public cloud, but who still want to take advantage of the cost and compute benefits it offers. Azure Stack has been described as “an extension of Azure”... more »

Microsoft is willing to go to all kinds of lengths to push PC users onto Windows 10, but its new operating system is already seeing significant success in the enterprise, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The analyst firm says an unprecedented number of businesses are evaluating Windows 10 with an eye to upgrading later this year. According to Gartner, the interest from businesses is so big that Windows 10 blows away its predecessor Windows 7 in the enterprise adoption stakes. In an interview with Computerworld, Gartner's Steve Kleynhans says that enterprises are evolving in the way they prepare for... more »

Apple, Inc. has issued a recall for plug adapters sold with Mac and iOS devices in large parts of the world between 2003 and 2015. Adapters sold in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil are affected, as well as plug adapters sold as part of Apple's World Travel Adapter Kit. In an unprecedented recall advisory notice, Apple said that the affected adapters may break and create a risk of electrical shock if touched. Apple said that the cases were rare but it is aware of 12 incidents worldwide where customers were shocked, but none took place in the United States. The affected... more »

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is getting into the open-source game, unleashing the code for its cloud management and application lifecyle platform OneOps on GitHub for the entire world to slice and dice. For those who're unfamiliar, OneOps is platform for developers to build and launch their cloudy apps across a variety of platforms and environments. Using it, developers can build and deploy their apps on public and private cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Rackspace and CenturyLink, and hybrid clouds based on OpenStack. Wal-Mart says that the main benefit of OneOps for enterprises is that it means they can better take... more »

Apple, Inc. has acquired education technology startup LearnSprout, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Learnsprout makes tools that make student data from school information systems (SIS) more readily accessible. "Empowering educators to analyze and understand student data," the company's platform gives educators the ability to surface data on students’ attendance, grades, and other school activities captured in the SIS. One of the purposes of collecting and displaying this data is said to be a way to create an early warning system to help educators identify at-risk students. More than 2,500 school districts in 42 U.S. states use LearnSprout’s software, according to information... more »

Microsoft's cloud transformation remains on track, with its latest quarterly earnings offering more encouragement even as the tech giant saw its overall revenues dip. The big news from the call was Microsoft Azure's fantastic performance – revenues jumped by 127 percent from one year ago, with sales of Azure Premium Services like Machine Learning tripling in the last quarter of 2015 compared to a year ago. Microsoft also boasted that over a third of the Fortune 500 has adopted its Enterprise Mobility solutions for securing mobile devices. Overall though, Microsoft's revenue declined by 10 percent year-over-year to just $23.8 billion for the... more »

Amazon.com, Inc. disappointed Wall Street Thursday with the company reporting fourth-quarter financial results that missed market expectations. Net sales in the quarter increased 22 percent to $35.7 billion compared with $29.3 billion in fourth quarter 2014, with the company noting that the figure would have been $1.2 billion, or 26 percent higher had it not been for changes in foreign exchange rates. Amazon's operating income increased 88 percent to $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter versus $591 million in Q4 2014. Net income came in at a record high of $482 million in the quarter, or $1.00 per diluted share, compared with net... more »

Earlier this month, a few eagle-eyed NeoGAF users noticed that Sony Corp had filed paperwork to trademark the term "Let's Play," a phrase gamers use for fan made gameplay videos with commentary. Sony's application was denied, but it seems that the company tried a second time and was again rejected. This week, the McArthur Law Firm, which had filed a Letter of Protest against Sony's original attempt, announced that Sony's application had again been rejected, and the firm offered a bit more information on why Sony's requests had been denied. "The previous 'rejection,' widely misreported a few weeks ago, was in reality just... more »

Online PC game seller Good Old Games (GOG) has announced the launch of Games in Development, a new storefront that allows consumers to purchase games before they are finished in a model similar to that of Steam Early Access. The library of available games is sparse at the moment, but GOG managing director Piotr Karwowsk says that is by design. "With games in development we have no way of judging the final product," Karwowsk told Gamasutra. "That makes things a bit more difficult and a bit more risky — and that's why our goal is to minimize the long-term dangers by choosing the projects we... more »