Intel’s recent announcement that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration as a service feature in the Alibaba Cloud shines a spotlight on a changing landscape for the integrated circuit market. FPGAs let customers configure the chip after it leaves the factory, opening up a new realm where circuits can deliver ...

A Gartner Inc. report places Alibaba Cloud’s (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group), market position in fourth place, and the share (2.6 percent) does not even come within sniffing distance of Amazon (30.3 percent) and Microsoft Azure (13.8 percent). Even third place Google LLC has more than twice the share at 5.9 percent. Yet, one of ...

When Intel Corp. announced last week that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration service for Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, it was yet another chapter in an evolving collaboration between the chip maker and China’s e-commerce powerhouse. The service is an important part of Alibaba’s cloud architecture, ...

When Mary Min (pictured) started with her current company and wanted to test the strength of a new security solution in an application environment, she had plenty of options ranging from healthcare to finance to “internet of things.” But the experienced developer knew exactly where she wanted to go first: gaming. “People were a little puzzled, ...

Although technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality are considered to be in the earliest stages of consumer adoption, they offer significant potential to reshape brand marketing campaigns. AR on the mobile platform holds major promise as users embrace smartphone cameras, a key delivery vehicle for augmented reality content. The premise behind AR is discovery ...

When the Samsung Galaxy smartphone was first released in the middle of 2009, it marked the company’s initial step into the Android market. The Korean consumer giant has been all-in with Android ever since, and it has built a sizable developer community around the platform over the past eight years. Further evidence for the firm’s ...

In the previously siloed world of information technology infrastructure, systems administrators and developers generally came together only when they passed each other in the hallway. Not anymore. Organizations are increasingly under pressure to speed software deployment while managing the complexities of clouds, servers and virtual machines in a chaotic IT world. This has led to a ...

We all know that refrigerators store food, but through enhancements recently introduced by Samsung Electronics America Inc., they can help cook meals as well. The Samsung Family Hub smart refrigerator is now being shipped with an app from the sous-vide circulator Nomiku downloaded inside. Tap the app on the smart fridge and receive cooking instructions ...

On the opening day of the Samsung Developers Conference in San Francisco, connected devices took center stage as the company announced the consolidation of its SmartThings, Samsung Connect and ARTIK services into one “internet of things”-branded label of SmartThings Cloud. The move on Wednesday demonstrates how the software as a service generation may now be ...

Just as oil propelled Standard Oil Co. Inc. to a position of dominant industrial power in the late 1800s, data is doing the same for a number of technology firms today. Half of consumer online spending in the U.S. is controlled by Amazon, a company that relies extensively on mining data so it knows what ...