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Tech giants form a new alliance to take on patent trolls
Many of the technology industry’s biggest companies today announced they’re joining forces in a bid to reform U.S. patent laws and tamp down so-called patent trolls. The group includes Adobe Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. The companies have just created a new ...
News outlets ask Congress for help in ad revenue dispute with Facebook and Google
Major media companies, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal owner News Corp., are reportedly joining forces in an effort to renegotiate the advertising revenue they receive from Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. The media companies are seeking an antitrust exemption from Congress that would allow them to bargain with the Internet ...
IT infrastructure spending to rise 12.4% in 2017, driven by the cloud
The insatiable demand for more public and private cloud services among enterprises will drive a 12.4 percent surge in information technology infrastructure spending this year, according to analyst firm International Data Corp. IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, released Wednesday, says spending on servers, storage and Ethernet switches should top $40.1 billion by the ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure cloud in UK with software container service and more
As one of the world’s biggest public cloud computing providers, Microsoft Corp. has an expansive global reach. But not everyone is aware that the company’s cloud service offerings differ quite substantially depending on where in the world you’re located. Most of its newer services are made available to North American customers first, before being rolled ...
In bitter legal spat, Qualcomm asks for ban on Apple iPhone imports
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has taken another stab at Apple Inc. in the companies’ pitched legal battle, accusing the iPhone maker of infringing six of its patents and demanding a ban on the import of iOS handsets into the U.S. The company said in a statement Thursday that iPhones and iPads powered by Intel’s 4G wireless chips ...
EU may hit Google with a second massive fine, this time over Android abuse
Google Inc. is bracing itself for a second massive fine from European Union regulators, as another antitrust case nears its conclusion. EU antitrust officials have asked for a second opinion on the case, which relates to Google’s Android platform and its dominance of the mobile device market in Europe, according to a report from Reuters. ...
After a long decline, the PC market may finally return to growth in 2018
Information technology analyst firm Gartner Inc. has some good news for PC makers: The long-declining market for PCs is set to return to growth next year. The reason is that buyers are reaching the end of their evaluation periods of Windows 10, Gartner said in a new report. This new growth will come following six ...
Microsoft Workplace Analytics aims to deliver insights into workforce productivity
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday made its new workforce productivity tool Workplace Analytics generally available, available as an add-on to the company’s enterprise-level Office 365 subscribers. Ryan Fuller, general manager of Workplace Analytics, said in a blog post that Workplace Analytics taps into Office 365’s email and calendar metadata, sniffing out email recipients, subject lines and time stamps ...
AMD gains market share on Intel thanks to its new Ryzen chips
Semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has something to celebrate after seeing its share of the x86 processor chip market rise following the launch of its new Ryzen microchips. The new data comes from PassMark Software’s CPU benchmarking service, which logs thousands of benchmark results every single day. PassMark’s data shows that interest in AMD’s microprocessors ...
NEC claims new machine learning capabilities 50X faster than Apache Spark
Japanese computer giant NEC Corp. claims to have developed new data processing technology capable of accelerating machine learning on vector computers by up to 50 times that of the popular Apache Spark big data framework. The company said its new technology leverages something called “sparse matrix” data structures to significantly boost the performance of vector ...