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For all the fanfare, Google Glass wasn’t exactly a resounding success. Indeed, Google announced it was killing off the contraption back in January of this year, even though some businesses users and healthcare providers actually found it quite useful. But Google’s announcement …
Uber crumbles under French protests, suspends services
Uber Technologies Inc. has temporarily suspended its UberPop service in France, following mass protests from taxi drivers there who insist the service is against the law. After a week of sometimes violent protests by regular taxi drivers, Uber announced the suspension of …
SnapShot bids to bring hospitality into the Big Data era
SnapShot GmbH, a Berlin-based Big Data startup focused on the hospitality industry, received a big boost this week with €25 million in series B funding from Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., (Shiji Networks) to help scale out its suite of data analytics …
HP Enterprise split edges closer with SEC filing
Hewlett-Packard Company has filed Form 10 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the process of registering HP Enterprise Inc. as a seperate, independent firm. It’s an important step as the company prepares to split itself into two …
Microsoft to roll-out Windows 10 in “waves” starting July 29
Microsoft has at last revealed how it intends to roll-out Windows 10 to the masses when it launches at the end of the month. The company already said it plans to ship the complete OS to Windows Insider program testers on July …
Here’s all we know about iOS 9’s enterprise features so far
Apple didn’t give too much attention to the new enterprise features of iOS9 at its WorldWide Developer Conference last week, which comes as a mild surprise given its recent push into the workplace that includes a highly publicized partnership with IBM. That’s …
Cloud providers “do not care” about enterprise success
Enterprise cloud users and even cloud providers themselves are being harmed by a lack of transparency in the industry, say analysts from Forrester Research Inc. in a new report. In a recent survey of 275 IT leaders about cloud vendors’ transparency and …
Data center spending stays flat despite cloud shift
Data center operators maintained a steady spending level on infrastructure during quarter two of 2015, though many are trending towards colocation services or cloud service providers, instead of building new data centers, according to a new report from 451 Research. The market …
Like it or not, Microsoft’s stuck with Windows Phone, analysts say
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spelled out the company’s revised mission statement last week, he declared that we live in a “mobile first, cloud first world,” and that the company’s strategy is to “build best-in-class platforms and productivity services” for that world. …
Uber buys Bing Maps assets & imagery data
Microsoft has announced it’s selling some of its Bing Maps assets to Uber Inc., including around 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. The company also said it will stop collecting its own map data, though it plans to continue …