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Apple to transfer control of iCloud services in China to local firm
IPhone maker Apple Inc. is planning to hand over control of its iCloud services in China to a local company in order to comply with a new cybersecurity law enacted in the country last year. Chinese media Friday quoted Apple in a report saying that Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Development, a company owned by the ...
SoftBank eyes $18B IPO for its mobile business
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is planning an initial public offering that could net some 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) for its mobile phone business later this year, according to a report in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper. SoftBank is looking to sell off about 30 percent of the SoftBank Corp. unit as it presses ahead ...
Red Hat says microservices benefits can be realized in just six months
Microservices are increasingly being used to rework existing software applications in addition to creating new information technology initiatives, according to the findings of a new survey by Red Hat Inc. The Linux software company was an early proponent of the microservices architecture, which refers to applications being built as a collection of smaller services rather ...
PC market shows small signs of life as Q4 worldwide shipments grow
Personal computer makers may be quietly encouraged by a new report indicating their market is stabilizing. Fourth-quarter worldwide shipments grew by a modest 0.7 percent from a year ago, according to data released today from International Data Corp. During the fourth quarter, 70.6 million units were shipped, exceeding previous estimates of a 1.7 percent decline. The ...
IBM reportedly will reassign 30,000+ staffers in services division and possibly cut 10,000 jobs
Enterprise software giant IBM Corp. might be on the verge of a return to revenue growth, but it’s also looking to cut much more on the cost side — namely jobs. According to a report in The Register Thursday, IBM is planning to reassign more than 30,000 staff from its Global Technology Services division, which ...
EU could OK Qualcomm’s $47B acquisition of NXP Semiconductor next week
Smartphone chip giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s perseverance looks like it might finally pay off, as reports indicate its proposed $47 billion acquisition of rival firm NXP Semiconductors NV will be approved by European regulators next week. The European Union’s antitrust regulators are all set to clear the acquisition after the two companies addressed concerns raised ...
VMware eases deployment of software containers in virtual machines
VMware Inc. is updating its vSphere Integrated Container Platform in order to make it easier to deploy software containers within virtual machines. The vSphere Integrated Container Platform is used to manage containers deployed inside VMs from within VMware’s flagship vSphere virtualization product. The technology uses a set of daemons, or background program processes, and software ...
AT&T to deploy sensors to monitor the health of road and railway bridges
Mobile network operator AT&T Inc. wants to expand its “internet of things” monitoring services to bridges. The company said Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it’s testing out a new “structure monitoring solution” that uses an array of sensors to help monitor the integrity of bridge structures, and alert city, state ...
CES 2018
During CES keynote, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich plays down security issues – and plays up new tech
Almost as soon as he took to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday evening, Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich addressed one of the biggest challenges facing the company today: the Spectre and Meltdown security bugs that could compromise many processor chips sold over the last two decades. “Our ...
Despite narrow fourth-quarter miss, Samsung expects record profits
Technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said early Tuesday in South Korea that it expects to earn 15.1 trillion won ($14 billion) in fourth-quarter operating profits when it reports final results later this month, setting a new record for quarterly profits for the third successive quarter. But those preliminary results still fell short of analysts’ ...