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CoreOS delivers private Docker registries for the enterprise
Linux vendor CoreOS has made its Docker-centric Enterprise Registry available as a standalone product. Now, the product can be used with any Docker-enabled operating system, having previously only been available as part of CoreOS’s Premium Managed Linux service. With the Enterprise Registry software, companies can store and manage images of their Docker apps using any ...
Lenovo completes Motorola buy, becomes major mobile player
Last January it was announced Google Inc. had agreed to sell off its subsidiary Motorola Motobility to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. in a deal worth some $2.91 billion. Now, the acquisition has finally been completed and sees Lenovo suddenly become the world’s number three smartphone maker, according to its CEO Yang Yuanqing. The terms of ...
EMC makes a late hybrid cloud play with triple acquisition
Just when you thought EMC Corp. couldn’t be any busier, it’s gone and acquired no less than three cloud startups in one fell swoop – The Cloudscaling Group Inc., Maginatics Inc., and Spanning Cloud Apps Inc. Apparently these weren’t impulsive buys. Each company has been carefully chosen to fulfil a key part of EMC’s hybrid ...
Google wants to inject Robots into your blood
Google Inc., has made no secret of its obsession with search, but it’s about to take things to the extreme with the development of nanoparticles that can be injected into people to seek out diseases like cancer. The idea was announced at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.D Live conference Tuesday. Google’s nanoparticles will be able ...
Verizon Wireless uses invisible code to track mobile customers
For the last two years, Verizon Wireless has been secretly tracking its customers online by adding tokens or ‘permacookies’ to web requests made over its cellular network. The data is used to build profiles of its users for advertising purposes, and it collects data even if people opt out of the program. According to Wired.com, ...
Drone strike: Pilot claims quadcopter was “deliberately” flown at passenger plane
As if drunk passengers, extreme turbulence, volcanic ash clouds and terrorists weren’t enough, pilots now have to be on the lookout for yet another threat – unnmanned flying drones being purposefully flown towards them. Such an event apparently occurred earlier this year, according to a report from the UK’s Airprox Board, which is responsible for ...
Pure Storage plots all-flash assault on hyper-converged systems
Pure Storage Inc., the all-flash array vendor, has just given the strongest hint yet that it’s about to change direction and start building hyper-converged systems as part of an assault on the commodity server hardware market. In a blog post to celebrate the company’s fifth birthday, Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen effectively stated his intent ...
Microsoft toys with ARM-based chips for Windows Server
Microsoft Corp. is reported to be testing an ARM-based version of Windows Server, according to Bloomberg, which cites unnamed sources familiar with the company’s plans. If the story is true, it would be an interesting development. The prospect of ARM servers has generated quite a bit of buzz over the last year or so, mainly ...
Scientists use drones to map malaria in Southeast Asia’s jungles
In the remote jungles of Southeast Asia, drones are being used to fight a new battle. But it’s not against Al Qaeda or ISIS, but a smaller and potentially even more deadly foe – malaria. Plasmodium knowlesi is primate malaria parasite that used to be confined to macaques and other primates in the region and which ...
Startup Soft Machines claims its chip design more than doubles CPU performance
Stealthy semiconductor design startup Soft Machines Inc., has come out with a Variable Instruction Set Computing (VISC) conceptual architecture that it says could usher in a new era of scaling and performance. Soft Machines believes it has overcome efficiency challenges that have frustrated improvements in microprocessor designs recent years. Its press release boasts that its VISC ...