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Canonical gets “snappy” with Microsoft as it launches IoT push
Canonical Ltd. has made no secret of its ambitions to push its Ubuntu operating system everywhere, from the data center all the way to the new categories of connected devices emerging at the edge. The company still has some way to go though, especially in mobile, where its efforts seem to have stalled over the ...
Rackspace throws around its “fanatical support” to keep investors happy
Rackspace Inc. has a problem on its hands. The company is growing, but not nearly fast enough to satisfy its investors, who responded by selling off company shares in their droves earlier this week on the back of disappointing guidance. On Monday, Rackspace posted revenues of $480.2 million for the first quarter, a 14.1 percent ...
Filmmakers denounce “six strikes” Copyright Alert System
In a piece of news that barely made any headlines last month, a group of small movie studios teamed up to launch a new coalition dubbed the Internet Security Task Force (ISTF). But while the group’s launch largely went under the radar, it’s now looking poised to be much more aggressive than The Motion Picture ...
Samsung unveils its IoT play: The Artik System-on-a-Chip
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. might be struggling to grow its smartphone business anymore, but could soon make up for it with a new series of chips it hopes will power the Internet of Things. Announced yesterday at the Internet of Things World conference in San Francisco, Samsung’s Artik IoT chips are said to be as ...
Bit Stew grabs $17M funding to bring Industrial Internet automation to the oil & gas sector
Bit Stew Systems, a little-known startup that’s landed several major North American utility customers for its data integration and operations software platform, has raised $17.2 million in series B funding to expand into Europe, branch into the oil and gas industry, and add distributed energy resources to the grid edge systems it tracks. The latest ...
Rackspace shares drop 11% on dismal Q2 guidance
Shares in the cloud hosting provider Rackspace Inc. took a battering on Monday as the company reported a dismal-looking forecast for its second quarter fiscal 2015. Rackspace said it’s total revenue for the first three months of the year was $480.2 million, a 14.1 percent increase on the previous year’s first quarter. That’s not bad ...
Russia & China sign anti-hacking pact, pledge to cooperate on cybersecurity
China and Russia have pledged not to hack or launch cyberattacks against one another, in a deal that’s designed to pave the way for wider cooperation in the areas of information technology and law enforcement. The agreement was detailed in a 12-page Russian language document posted on the Moscow government’s website. The documents states the ...
The ‘OS everywhere’ battle: For Microsoft, it’s all about the apps
One of two articles contrasting the strategies Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft are using to seed their respective operating systems across every platform ranging from phone to supercomputer. Read Maria Deutscher’s profile of Canonical’s strategy here. Last month’s Microsoft Build Conference gave us the first close-up look at the company’s strategy to reassert its dominance in the computing ...
Uber could be worth $50 billion by the end of the month
Uber Inc., which builds the ride-sharing app of the same name that has taxi firms the world over running scared, could soon be worth $50 billion if rumors of a new $2 billion funding round hold true. Uber apparently told investors of its plan to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion last Friday, The ...
Russian-made Elbrus chips, PCs and servers hit the market
Ever since Edward Snowden lifted the lid on the full extent of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, foreign nations have been looking for alternatives to U.S. manufactured equipment. In the wake of Snowden’s revelations, one Russian firm announced its intention to build its own homegrown microprocessors, and today these have finally gone on sale. Moscow ...