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Qualcomm intros a dedicated chip for AR and VR headsets
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has used its Snapdragon chips to power mostly smartphones and tablets, repurposing them for more specialized gear such as virtual and augmented reality headsets. Now, it has doubled down on VR and AR with a new specialized processor designed specifically for them. The chipmaker said the Snapdragon XR1, announced late Tuesday, is the world’s ...
Software container adoption jumps as deployments scale up
Software container adoption is hot as users increase their deployments of the technology for perceived advantages that include squeezing more performance out of their data center resources and accelerating application delivery. Those are the chief findings of a new study on Docker container usage published by the container monitoring company Sysdig Inc. Tuesday. The report ...
AT&T and Google team up to deliver high-speed public cloud connectivity
Wireless service provider AT&T Inc. said today that it’s collaborating with Google Inc. as it looks to build a more robust portfolio of cloud services. First up, it’s getting more closely involved with Google’s expanded Partner Interconnect service. That program, which offers business enterprises a more secure way of connecting to its public cloud platform, is ...
HP posts double-digit sales growth as it continues to lead the PC market
Personal computer and printer maker HP Inc. reported solid second-quarter earnings today, prompting company executives to boast that it remains well ahead of its rivals in both of its major markets. The hardware giant also said its chief financial officer, Catherine Lesjak, will leave the company by early next year. HP reported earnings after certain costs ...
Andy Rubin’s startup Essential reportedly cancels next phone, explores possible sale
Essential Products Inc., a startup created by Google Inc.’s Android operating system creator Andy Rubin (pictured), is reported to have canceled its plans for a second smartphone, and is instead exploring the possibility of selling itself. That’s according to Bloomberg, which also reported that any sale is far from set in stone, and Essential is still forging ahead ...
Intelligent document automation provider Conga lands $47M in funding
Intelligent document automation company AppExtremes LLC, which does business as Conga, is ready to double down on its global expansion plans after landing a $47 million round of funding Thursday led by Insight Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The company said it plans to use the cash to fund the development of its product offerings. ...
Nutanix shares fall on bigger-than-expected third-quarter loss
Nutanix Inc., a provider of data center infrastructure for enterprises, saw its share price fall by more than 4 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after posting a bigger-than-expected loss in its fiscal third quarter. The company posted a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of 21 cents per share on revenue of $289.4 ...
C3 IoT partners with Intel to bring AI to on-premises data centers
C3 Inc., popularly known as C3 IoT, has partnered with Intel Corp. on a new hardware appliance for artificial intelligence workloads that’s chiefly aimed at on-premises data center jobs. C3 IoT said today that its new appliance is a “full-stack turnkey system” that can be used to create and train deep learning and other kinds of ...
As NetApp guidance comes in weak again, shares dip and then recover
NetApp Inc. saw its share price initially dip once again after issuing disappointing guidance that eclipsed solid fourth-quarter earnings posted Wednesday. The data storage firm posted profits after certain costs such as stock compensation of $288 million, or $1.05 per share, on revenue of $1.64 billion, up 11 percent from a year ago. Wall Street ...
Google joins Amazon and Microsoft as a leader in cloud infrastructure, Gartner says
Google Inc.’s public cloud platform has finally entered into the big time, if Gartner Inc. is to be believed. The analyst firm has just named Google Cloud Platform as a leader in its latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, joining rivals Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which have had the ...