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Google updates Flutter with App Bundles, in-app payment support and more
Google LLC today pushed out a major update for its cross-platform mobile application software development framework Flutter. Flutter provides developers with a simple mobile user interface for building apps that work with both Android and iOS. With it, developers can build “native” mobile apps for both operating systems much faster than was previously possible. The ...
Report: VMware wants to bring its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure cloud
Virtualization software company VMware Inc. is looking to ally itself with one of its biggest rivals, Microsoft Corp., in a move that could have some positive implications for their joint customers. The two companies have been competitors for years, with each providing rival services meant to help customers manage their private data centers as they ...
IBM and VW’s SEAT outline AI-powered mobility app for urban travelers
IBM Corp. has teamed up with SEAT S.A., a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, on a new “Mobility Advisor” application to help people make more informed decisions about their daily transportation options. Introduced today, the application is designed to run on 4G- and 5G-enabled mobile devices. Leveraging IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence platform, it offers a ...
VMware launches Essential PKS for modular software container deployments
VMware Inc. today launched a new, stripped-down version of its Pivotal Container Service or PKS, which is used by companies to easily create software containers running on virtual machines. The new version, called VMware Essential PKS, is designed for companies that want to take a more modular approach to deploying software containers. The original VMware ...
Rancher Labs strips Kubernetes to its bare essentials for edge computing
Rancher Labs Inc. is looking to cater to enterprises that want to run Kubernetes in information technology environments constrained by limited resources. The company, which sells software for managing application containers, has unveiled a lightweight Kubernetes distribution called K3s that’s meant to address growing demand for smaller clusters running on x86, Arm64 and Armv7 processors ...
Amazon says Lyft is going all-in on its public cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. has a long history of showcasing its big cloud computing customer wins, and today it announced another one: ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. Lyft said it’s moving its entire information technology infrastructure to Amazon in order to enhance its marketplace and drive further growth of its bike and scooter business. It also ...
Robotic process automation firm Kryon closes on $40M round
Investors are throwing money at yet another robotic process automation startup. The latest beneficiary is Israeli firm Kryon, which today said it has closed on a $40 million round led by OAK HC/FT. Previous investors Aquiline Technology Growth and Vertex Ventures also participated in the Series C round, which brings Kryon’s total funding to date ...
Intel targets 5G network providers with FPGA-based accelerators
Intel Corp. is trying to win over 5G wireless service providers that need to handle growing volumes of virtualized workloads. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it launched a new field-programmable gate array-based acceleration card called the N3000. The chipmaker said it expects the ongoing rollout of 5G wireless services and a shift toward network ...
AIStorm announces its first analog data AI chips for IoT and driverless cars
Edge artificial intelligence startup AIStorm wasted no time at all in getting its first set of specialized sensors out of the door, announcing its initial products today just two weeks after closing on an early-stage round of funding worth $13.2 million. The company sells an “AI-in-Sensor” system-on-a-chip that enables faster processing of AI problems at the ...
Apple aims to replace Intel’s processors with Arm-based chips in its Mac PCs by 2020
Intel Corp. is apparently convinced that Apple Inc. is planning to replace its central processing units used in its Mac personal computers with Arm-based silicon instead. In a report today that cited private conversations with Intel officials and software developers, Axios apparently confirmed long-running rumors that Apple is all set transition its Mac computers to Arm ...