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Prison officials want your help to stop drones delivering drugs
The US Federal Bureau of Prisons has asked the public for ideas to help them stop contraband-laden drones from flying drugs into prisons. While legal drone deliveries won’t take off until next year at the earliest, contraband smugglers have been using quadcopters to fly drugs and other contraband into prisons for some time already. It’s ...
Docker 1.9 intros a fix for container networking headaches
Docker Inc. rolled out Docker version 1.9 last week with a major fix that makes containers a lot more ‘network aware’ than they ever were. One of the biggest problems for Docker users was they had few options when connecting one container to another. To do so, developers had to lay out explicit connections at ...
Microsoft readies its next major Windows 10 Fall Update release
Microsoft is on the verge of issuing its first major update to Windows 10. Officially called the Windows 10 Fall Update, the upgrade adds new functionality and a number of bug fixes to the operating system. The final test build of the updated OS, number 10586, was rolled out to Windows Insiders late last week, ...
Tech giants bet on Swagger in new Open API Initiative
We never stop hearing about how APIs are facilitating the development of all kinds of weird and wonderful apps, and now the Linux Foundation is jumping on the bandwagon with the launch of the Open API Initiative (OAI) to promote a common, open API standard. The initiative, which is backed by names like Google, IBM, ...
Microsoft teases its Windows Store for Business
Almost a year after it first unveiled plans for a dedicated business app store, Microsoft is prepping the release of its Windows Store for Business for Windows 10. The Redmond-based firm will first introduce the store to those who’ve signed up for its Windows Insider program, but there’s no concrete release date yet. Microsoft provides ...
Cask Data collects $20M to help devs brew packaged apps on Hadoop
A little-known Hadoop developer called Cask Data, Inc. has found itself under the spotlight after securing a $20 million in a Series B financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. The round, which also saw participation from Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners and other existing investors, brings the three-and-a-half-year old startup’s total funding to $32.5 million ...
Nutanix teams up with Lenovo in China
Nutanix Inc. has engaged China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. as a hardware partner for its hyperconverged software systems, giving it a big leg up as it looks to secure a sizable share of the lucrative Chinese market. Lenovo is to build a family of hyperconverged appliances that will be capable of handling just about any workload ...
Hortonworks beats analysts’ estimates again in Q3 earnings
Hadoop heavyweight Hortonworks Inc. posted its third quarter financials late on Wednesday, reporting adjusted earnings per share of negative $0.74 and revenues of $33.1 million. That performance beat analysts expectations of negative $0.83 per share and revenues of $30.69 million. Hortonworks shares were up several points in after-hours trading on the news. The company’s revenues ...
AWS is worth $160 billion, Deutsche Bank analysts say
The value of Amazon Web Services has been pegged at a whopping $160 billion, according to analysts from Germany’s Deutsche Bank. On Tuesday, the bank’s Karl Keirstead issued a note saying that AWS’ cloud revenues would hit $16 billion by 2017. Therefore, the company’s valuation as a standalone business would reach $160 billion based on ...
Dell looking to dump “non-core” software assets ahead of EMC acquisition
Dell Inc. is reported to be considering selling off some of its “non-core assets” in an effort to raise $10 billion ahead of its $67 billion EMC Corp. acquisition. The usual “unnamed sources” told Reuters that Dell will take on a debt of around $49.5 billion once the acquisition is completed next year. Therefore, the ...