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Instagram just became a lot more business-friendly
The Instagram photo-sharing app is home to more than 200,000 advertisers of every persuasion, and they’re just dying to connect with you. And now, with the launch of Instagram’s new “Business Profiles” feature, they may very well do just that. Instagram first announced the new features about two months ago. In a blog post, the ...
As robots get smarter and more capable, investments in R&D are booming
Robots paved the way for automation in the automotive manufacturing industry, but have since made their way into almost every sector that could conceivably benefit from them. Indeed, the robots of today are so flexible that they can handle increasingly varied and ever-more complex tasks, which is why stakeholders in everything from defense and food ...
Google’s planning to use drones for video conferences
Google is considering plans to use drones to deliver video conferencing. The unusual idea was revealed in a patent awarded to the tech giant last week, which outlines the idea of a drone carrying a screen, video camera and audio systems that allow it to conduct video conferences while buzzing around the room. The patent ...
Microsoft backtracks on shorter Windows 7 support plan
Microsoft has relented on what many suspected was a cunning plan to push newer PC owners onto Windows 10 by restricting support options for certain CPUs. Back in January, Microsoft announced that any PC running Intel’s 6th-generation Core i5 or Core i7 processors with Windows 7 or Windows 8 would only receive limited stability and ...
Public cloud spending to more than double to $195BN by 2020
International Data Corp. (IDC) reckons that global spending on public cloud services will hit $195 billion a year by 2020. The forecast came in its Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending guide on Wednesday, which predicts $96.5 billion of spending this year, and a compound annual growth rate of 20.4 percent between 2015 and 2020. ...
Microsoft justifies Azure Stack U-turn: It’s not feasible on systems we’ve never seen before
Microsoft caused controversy last month when it said it would be revamping and also delaying the release of its eagerly anticipated Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform. At its Worldwide Partner Conference last month, Microsoft executives went back on an earlier promise that Azure Stack would be able to run on customer’s own choice of hardware, ...
AWS aims to simplify real-time data analysis with Kinesis Analytics
Amazon Web Services yesterday unveiled a range of new capabilities it’s adding to its cloud platform at its AWS Summit in New York City. The biggest announcement is AWS’s new analytics service for real-time data streaming, Kinesis Analytics, which the company said is designed to make it easier to perform queries on real-time streaming data ...
CIA-funded Palantir acquires Dutch data visualization startup Silk
Highly secretive data firm Palantir Technologies Inc., which was co-founded by Peter Thiel and part-financed by the CIA, has said it’s to acquire a Dutch data visualization and publishing startup called Silk, whose technology allows users to build interactive charts and maps. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal was confirmed in ...
Mirantis expands OpenStack offerings with SUSE alliance
OpenStack distributor Mirantis Inc. has forged a new alliance with SUSE as it bids to become the “one-stop-shop” for all enterprise Linux users of the open-source cloud computing platform. The partnership means Mirantis gets to add a third Linux option, alongside its existing CentOS and Red Hat offerings. Mirantis is one of the major OpenStack ...
Google now offers self-destructing VMs at just $0.01 per hour
Google has gone and cut its cloud prices again, reducing the cost of virtual machines (VMs) to as little as $0.01 an hour. However, that price only applies to what Google calls “Preemptible VMs”, which are a special kind of VM that can only exist for 24 hours. And there’s a second caveat too, because ...