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High-performance computing server market sees steady growth
High-end servers saw strong revenue growth in the third quarter of 2016, in stark contrast to the rest of the server market. International Data Corp., in its latest “Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView” report, said high-performance computing, or HPC, server revenues grew by 3.9 percent in the third quarter, to $2.8 billion. In contrast, third-quarter ...
Accenture predicts 2017 will be the year of the smartphone’s demise
The rise of autonomous vehicles, digital assistants and smart homes will create new ecosystems that will eventually challenge the smartphone’s dominance as the main command center of our lives. That’s one of main takeaways from global professional services firm Accenture Plc. in its recently released Fjord Trends 2017 report. Younger generations who grew up with ...
Volkswagen buys mobile parking payments startup PayByPhone
Canadian mobile payments company PayByPhone Technologies Inc., which enables drivers to pay for parking spaces using their smartphone, has just been acquired by Volkswagen Financial Services for an undisclosed price. PayByPhone, which operates in cities across the U.S., Canada and Europe, claims to have more than 12.5 million registered users worldwide, and says it processed ...
Microsoft expands Blob Storage file limits in its Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. has announced a massive increase in the maximum file size limit on its Azure Blob Storage service, rising from 195 gigabytes to 4.77 terabytes. The increase is designed to accommodate the scientific research community and other users who sometimes have enormous cloud storage needs for workloads, explained Michael Hauss, a program manager with ...
Predictions 2017: No driverless cars, but drone deliveries and bitcoin take flight
As if 2016 weren’t volatile enough for the technology industry, the coming year is likely to be even more interesting, thanks to everything from a very unpredictable new U.S. president to a confluence of trends ranging from artificial intelligence to virtual reality to the continued rise of the cloud. This is the latest in a ...
Robotics are poised to dominate Asia’s startup scene in 2017
The Asian startup scene is set to be dominated by robotics and consumer banking in 2017, according to a new survey by Norwegian telecommunications firm Telenor Group. The robotics industry was cited by 45 percent of respondents, who were asked which sectors were set to become Asia’s hottest startup scenes in 2017. An additional 20 percent ...
Facebook fooled by fake news report of explosion in Bangkok
Facebook Inc. has been plagued by fake news appearing in people’s news feeds for quite some time, but on Tuesday the company itself was fooled by false reports of a bomb attack in Bangkok, Thailand. The fake news report tricked Facebook’s algorithms into activating its Safety Check feature, and thousands of users in Bangkok marked ...
Strong encryption critical to digital economy, says congressional report
The United States government risks undermining the digital economy if it doesn’t embrace strong encryption, according to a bipartisan congressional report released last week. The Encryption Working Group’s Year-End Report comes after a year long investigation by the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee. The report comes to the conclusion that ...
Microsoft will be the first tech firm to hit a $1 trillion valuation, analyst says
Following its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp., Microsoft Corp. could become the first technology company to see its market value hit $1 trillion. That prediction comes from respected financial analyst Michael Markowski, who was previously named by Fortune as one of its “top 50 greatest investors” and correctly predicted the bankruptcy of investment firm Lehman Brothers Holdings ...
Mimecast heads up Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving
Gartner Inc.’s latest Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving shows that Mimecast Ltd. is way out in front of a market that looks to be increasingly dominated by specialists in the field. It’s actually quite a competitive space too, with companies including Microsoft Corp., Proofpoint Inc., Global Relay Communications Inc., Veritas Technologies LLC and Smarsh ...