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Microsoft to give 10 years of support for Windows 10 to everyone
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 users will be given free feature and functionality updates for exactly ten years from the time they first buy the operating system – for example, on a new device. This was revealed through Microsoft’s latest update to its Windows lifecyle fact sheet. The document lists a number of milestone ...
Sony’s enterprise drones ready to take off next year
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is getting into the drone business. The company said it’s going to create a joint venture with another Japanese firm to build UAVs that capture images and other data for business uses. Sony’s mobile arm is teaming up with ZMP Inc., a Tokyo-based robotics firm, to build its drones. But before ...
BlackBerry furthers enterprise push with Athoc acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. is continung its Phoenix-like rise from the ashes with the acquisition of AtHoc Inc., a provider of secure, networked crisis communications to enterprises and government organizations. The deal was announced late Wednesday, and sees BlackBerry acquire a powerful tool as it looks to bolster its own secure messaging services. AtHoc’s software is essentially ...
Silicon Valley big guns side with Samsung in Apple patent case
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has received the unlikely backing of a host of Silicon Valley tech firms as its long-running patent dispute with Apple rumbles on. The unlikely coalition, which includes Google, eBay Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., and Facebook, has filed what’s known as a “friend of the court” brief in support of Samsung’s ...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation bids to kickstart container interoperability
The Linux Foundation is teaming up with 18 technology giants and IT organizations to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s hoping to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy containerized cloud applications oriented around microservices. The main goal of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is to determine the current ...
SAP’s on cloud cruise control as Q2 revenues rise
SAP SE bucked the trend among poor performing legacy software vendors, reporting rising revenues as customers rushed to snap up its new cloud offerings, though the company’s overall profits took a hit due to a tendency among buyers to choose lower-end services. On Wednesday, Germany-based SAP reported second quarter operating profits of €701 million ($766 ...
Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz plot a route to buy Nokia’s HERE mapping service
We’ve known for a while that German auto makers Audi AG, BMW AG, and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz have been looking to acquire Nokia Corp.’s HERE Maps service, and The Wall Street Journal now says the deal has almost been done. On Tuesday, the publication said the German firms have agreed a deal worth “slightly more ...
CoreOS shatters container complexity with Tectonic Preview
CoreOS Inc. has launched a preview of its Tectonic platform, an all-encompassing container technology stack combining the CoreOS portfolio with Kubernetes, Google’s open-source project for managing containerized applications. The Tectonic platform is designed to give organizations easy access to Kubernetes, together with the reassurance of enterprise-level support. Meanwhile, CoreOS has also created a number of ...
Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2015 ahead of Windows 10
With just one week until Windows 10 officially launches, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6, the latest generation of its integrated development environment (IDE) and software framework. Visual Studio is an incredibly popular tool, used by millions of developers around the world to build the applications that we take for granted. With ...
Qualcomm mulls breakup as ‘smartphone fatigue’ bites
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc., which reported an alarming 46 percent drop in second-quarter profit in April, is said to be contemplating a sweeping restructuring of its business that could lead to layoffs and maybe even a breakup of its businesses. The report comes by way of Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, citing a report ...