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FAA approves 4 companies to use drones for commercial purposes
Despite recently proposing guidelines that would make it almost impossible for businesses to fly drones for commercial purposes, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has suddenly gone and granted permission for four companies to use them. The companies, Trimble Navigation Limited, VDOS Global, LLC, Clayco, Inc. and Woolpert, Inc. (which has been granted two exemptions), have ...
Avi Networks snags $33M for campaign to upend network giants
Avi Networks has just burst out of stealth to announce an initial $33 million funding round from well-known venture capital firms Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. With that cash, the company is aiming to disrupt some of the biggest incumbents in tech. It’s taking a software-defined approach to networking that puts the ...
Uber to be pre-installed on most Sprint phones
Despite the seemingly overwhelming number of problems Uber is facing over the safety and legality of its services, the company remains focused on expanding its user base. Amidst all the doom and gloom of the last few weeks, Uber’s just popped out an announcement that it’s teaming up with Sprint to pre-install its app on ...
Sony strikes back at hackers with DDoS attacks
New leaks of stolen internal documents from Sony Corporation are being dumped on the web almost daily since the firm was hacked, but now it’s fighting back with some dirty tricks of its own. A report in Re/Code reveals Sony is using surreptitious methods to block anyone who’s trying to download its stolen documents via ...
LA & San Francisco pile more pressure on Uber
It’s just one thing after another for Uber Inc. these days. In the latest in a seemingly endless series of mishaps, the wacky cab company has just been hit with a pair of lawsuits in Los Angeles and San Francisco for engaging in “unlawful business practices”. The IDG News service reports district attorneys in both ...
Having missed mobile opportunities, Intel eyes Internet of Things
Having failed to gain much of a foothold in the ARM-dominated world of mobile phones, Intel Corp. is eyeing smaller targets – it wants to get its chips inside the Internet of Things, as it explained at an “IoT Insights” event this week. Intel seems to be at a disadvantage as it enters the race. ...
Microsoft mulls new business model for Windows 10
Microsoft is still a money-making machine, but it has a big problem on its hands when it comes to its Windows operating system. Making money by selling software licenses simply isn’t going to work in a future where its rivals give away exactly the same kinds of products for free, and that’s forcing Microsoft to ...
Swedish cops shut down The Pirate Bay again
Anyone trying to access the popular torrent sharing website The Pirate Bay is going to be disappointed today. The site has been taken offline following a raid by Swedish police on the premises where its servers are kept, according to reports. The controversial website went offline sometime around 2AM Pacific Time, and the police confirmed ...
Google fesses up: Over half of its ads are never seen by humans
Online ads are massive, accounting for about 20 percent of total spending in the advertising industry, and more than 90 percent of Google’s and Facebook’s revenues. But a new report from Google admits that more than half of them – 56. 1 percent – are never seen by anyone. Google said more than half the ...
Forrester: Hadoop to become an enterprise priority in 2015
It’s been over a decade since Google’s engineers first developed MapReduce to process massive datasets using distributed computing. That technology rapidly evolved into the Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data, which for years been hyped as the “next big thing” in IT. Now, it looks like the hype is finally giving way to ...