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Famous Lefties in Tech: Bill Gates + More
Lefties, Southpaws, Sinistral – these are just some terms that describes a person who dominantly uses their left hand. Funny how when someone learns that you’re a lefty they get a surprised look on their face, like they just saw an endangered species, or an alien. You can’t blame them though, it’s not often you ...
Smart Devices Still Not Popular. Just Give Us Dumb TVs!
In this day and age when almost every new TV boasts a bevvy of “smart” features, it seems like these “smart” TVs aren’t as popular as you’d expect. There are a number of reasons why smart TVs have yet to revolutionize the entertainment industry, given the growing number of ways we now have to consume ...
PernixData FVP Expands Flash Tech Beyond Primary Use Cases : Good Replacement Server
PernixData, a company that specializes in virtualizing technology, recently announced PernixData FVP, boasting the industry’s first and only hypervisor for server-side flash, is now generally available. PernixData FVP virtualizes all server-side flash into a clustered acceleration tier that enables IT administrators to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively scale-out storage performance completely independent of storage capacity. “Storage ...
SmartWorld Weekly Roundup: From Zero Homes to Ad-laced Cars
If you missed any part in SiliconANGLE’s SmartWorld Series this week, fret not! Friday is the perfect day to catch up on your reading. In this week’s SmartWorld roundup, we featured smarter homes producing more energy than they’re consuming, quantified self apps and gadgets, smart transportation, and a number of devices that are making life ...
The Most Successful Self-Starter Project + More Smart Devices
In this week’s SmartDevice roundup we’ll be featuring one of the most successful self-starter crowdfunding campaign to date, a tracking device, and a small chip that could harness the power of the sun to charge your smartphone. Tile Tile, the tiny Bluetooth Low Energy device for keeping track of the small, or big, items ...
VMware Remains Popular, Faces Challenges as Virtualization Becomes a Commodity
As server virtualization has matured, along with facing competition from many cloud competitors, VMware’s core hypervisor market is threatened by emerging commoditation trends. Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman explains that virtualization has really matured and is now being regarded as a commodity. Unfortunately for VMware, the company is no longer at the center of virtualization, ...
Why Apple Needs to Launch an iPhone Mini
According to the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, price-conscious, first-time smartphone buyers will almost certainly avoid choosing an iPhone because the things are just too damn expensive. “Previous smartphone owners buy Apple iPhones much more often than first-time owners,” said the CIRP. “Almost 50 percent of previous owners buy an iPhone, while under one-third of first-time ...
The Ubuntu Edge: Will It? Won’t It Happen?
It’s looking more and more like the world may never see the awesome prowess of the Ubuntu Edge come to market, as Canonical’s concept “Superphone” has only two weeks left to hit its $32 million Indiegogo funding target, and it’s not even halfway towards reaching that goal. Canonical may have over-reached and asked for too ...
Text-based Amber Alerts: Doing More Harm than Good?
If you live in Southern California, you might have experienced an untimely text message or call in the middle of last night, just as you’ve gotten to sleep. You’ll have cursed the person who disturbed your peaceful slumber and swore to take their head off if it wasn’t important. But what if the text messages ...
White House Incentive List : First-Step to Real Cybersecurity?
The White House has released a preliminary set of incentives that will be offered to companies that operate critical infrastructure, such as power plants and companies, in exchange for joining a cybersecurity program chaired by the Homeland Security Department. The document, published on Tuesday, states that these critical infrastructures are increasingly networked are are vulnerable ...