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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
HP launches community edition of Helion OpenStack
Hewlett-Packard Co. has made good on an earlier promise to build and offer its own OpenStack distribution with the general release of its Helion OpenStack software. HP’s Helion is based on the new Juno OpenStack release, and is offered alongside the new …