Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Accenture predicts 2017 will be the year of the smartphone’s demise

By Mike Wheatley Dec 29, 2016

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…

Apps

Volkswagen buys mobile parking payments startup PayByPhone

By Mike Wheatley Dec 29, 2016

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…

Cloud

Microsoft expands Blob Storage file limits in its Azure cloud

By Mike Wheatley Dec 28, 2016

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…

Emerging Tech

Predictions 2017: No driverless cars, but drone deliveries and bitcoin take flight

By Mike Wheatley Dec 28, 2016

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…

Emerging Tech

Robotics are poised to dominate Asia’s startup scene in 2017

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2016

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…

Apps

Facebook fooled by fake news report of explosion in Bangkok

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2016

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,…

Apps

Strong encryption critical to digital economy, says congressional report

By Mike Wheatley Dec 26, 2016

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…

Cloud

Microsoft will be the first tech firm to hit a $1 trillion valuation, analyst says

By Mike Wheatley Dec 26, 2016

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…

Infra

Mimecast heads up Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2016

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…

Cloud

ClusterHQ, creator of the Flocker software container manager, shuts down

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2016

ClusterHQ Inc., the startup that developed the popular open-source software container manager Flocker, today said it’s shutting down operations immediately. The move comes as something of a surprise, since the company had raised $18 million…

Mike Wheatley

Accenture predicts 2017 will be the year of the smartphone’s demise

Volkswagen buys mobile parking payments startup PayByPhone

Microsoft expands Blob Storage file limits in its Azure cloud

Predictions 2017: No driverless cars, but drone deliveries and bitcoin take flight

Robotics are poised to dominate Asia’s startup scene in 2017

Facebook fooled by fake news report of explosion in Bangkok

Strong encryption critical to digital economy, says congressional report

Microsoft will be the first tech firm to hit a $1 trillion valuation, analyst says

Mimecast heads up Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving

ClusterHQ, creator of the Flocker software container manager, shuts down

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