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Google extends Android Enterprise Recommended program to mobility management firms
Google LLC today expanded its Android Enterprise Recommended program to so-called Enterprise Mobility Management providers that help large businesses manage and enable Android services at large scale. The Android Enterprise Recommended program was opened to smartphone makers last year, detailing several common requirements for devices and services deemed essential for business users, which are backed ...
Kong adds new AI-powered tools to ease API management
Application programming interface management company Kong Inc. today updated its platform with new artificial intelligence- and machine learning-powered tools designed to help automate the management of API lifecycles. The new tools, Kong Brain and Kong Immunity, will be integrated into the Kong Enterprise API platform, which serves as a foundation for developers looking to build a ...
Intel could choose a new CEO before the end of the month
Intel Corp. may be close to naming a new chief executive officer to replace its former chief Brian Krzanich, who left the chipmaking giant more than six months ago. Bloomberg today quoted anonymous sources as saying that the new CEO could well be a “nontraditional candidate,” which suggests that a figure from outside the company is ...
Microsoft wins $1.76B contract to supply cloud services to Pentagon
Microsoft Corp. has landed a huge $1.76 billion cloud computing contract from the U.S. Department of Defense under which it will provide an array of services to several agencies over the next five years. The contract, which runs until January 2024, calls for Microsoft to supply cloud services to the DOD, the U.S. Coast Guard and ...
Choice Hotels moves its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a big customer win in the hospitality industry, with Choice Hotels International Inc. going “all-in” on its public cloud infrastructure. Choice Hotels, which owns well-known hotel brands such as Ascend Hotel Collection, Cambria Hotels, Comfort, Sleep Inn and Quality Inn, said it’s planning to migrate its entire information technology ...
PC sales stumble over the holiday period from processor shortages
Sales of personal computers took a knock in the fourth quarter from a combination of microprocessor chip shortages and the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, according to reports today from analyst firms International Data Corp. and Gartner Inc. IDC put total global shipments of PCs for the quarter at 68.1 million units, ...
Box CEO Aaron Levie invests in financial wellness startup Even
Box Inc. Chief Executive Aaron Levie today is joining financial wellness startup Even Responsible Inc. as an “investor” in a funding round that also sees former Tableau Software Inc. sales executive Kelly Breslin Wright join the company. Even offers a financial wellness app to corporate customers, so that these can offer its services to their employees ...
Amazon launches DocumentDB database service to rival MongoDB
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a shot at MongoDB Inc. with the launch today of its new Amazon DocumentDB database service. Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully managed document database service that runs on its cloud and is compatible with existing MongoDB applications and tools. It’s essentially a repackaged ...
Apple orders 10 percent reduction in iPhone production plans
Apple Inc.’s current misery looks like it could be extended into the new year, as new reports say the company has asked its iPhone suppliers to cut production of new devices for the next three months by about 10 percent. The report today from Nikkei Asian Review comes about a week after Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook ...
Baidu open-sources OpenEdge, a platform for building edge applications
Chinese technology powerhouse Baidu Inc. is positioning its public cloud for edge computing applications. The company today announced an open-source “intelligent edge” computing platform called OpenEdge that it says developers can use to build “light, secure and scalable edge applications.” With OpenEdge, developers can deploy all manner of edge computing systems and deploy them on ...