Saroj Kar

Saroj is a Staff Writer at SiliconANGLE covering DevOps, Emerging Tech, Mobile and Gaming news. If you have a story idea or tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Developers will empower mobile alike revolution in the Internet of Things | #IBMImpact

Kerry McGuire, VP of strategy for the Internet of Things business unit at ARM, joined SiliconANGLE live with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Paul Gillin, at the 2014 edition of IBM Impact to discuss embedded devices and how developers can speed up innovation in the Internet of Things industry. McGuire said there is an explosion of ...

Denmark writes Minecraft map world history with official map data

This is a first of its kind in the world. Denmark has used official topographical data to create a reasonable facsimile of itself in Minecraft. The game map is based on real, official measurements made public by the Danish Geodata Agency, though various things have had to adapt to the game’s scale and, naturally, its ...

IBM’s BlueMix new services deliver a combo of DevOps and PaaS to developers | #IBMImpact

IBM is in the process of migrating a large part of its software on the SoftLayer cloud so they are accessible in the form of services within a common, open architecture. At the IBM Impact 2014 event, IBM is introducing 30 new BlueMix services to help organizations quickly integrate applications and speed deployment. Built on ...

Microsoft delivers with new Big Data tools for Internet of Things and the culture of data

At a customer event in San Francisco last week, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella showcased the company’s latest offerings for helping businesses embrace big data culture and the Internet of Things. To do this, Microsoft has introduced three new tools that are designed for analysis of growing volumes of information generated by humans and machines, and ...

Apple and Google tussle for exclusive mobile games

The competition for best video game platform has extended into the mobile games category and the players are none other than two heavyweights in the mobile space: Google and Apple. According to a report shared in the Wall Street Journal, Apple and Google are trying to gain exclusivity for the titles of top games, as both ...

Open source productivity suite OpenOffice reaches 100 million downloads in less than two years

Apache Software Foundation has announced that OpenOffice has passed the milestone of 100 million downloads in less than two years since it became one of the main projects of the foundation. The productivity suite is composed of six applications and is available in over 120 languages ​​on Windows, Mac and Linux. OpenOffice can be downloaded ...

Spotify abandoning P2P in favor of a more traditional dedicated architecture

When the music service Spotify debuted in 2008 it made use of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to deliver songs and since then it has been technological workhorse for millions of subscribers; however, the company will soon be phasing out that model for centralized servers. According to a TorrentFreak report, the music streaming site Spotify announced the ...

Google’s Project Tango finds a new territory: the NASA Space Station

Google’s technology will soon enter into new territory: space. NASA has announced plans to take advantage of Project Tango on board  the International Space Station to guide SPHERES robots’ navigation within the facility. SPHERES are zero-gravity autonomous machines being developed to serve as robotic assistants to help astronauts and independently perform tasks on the International ...

Chef collaborating with industry leaders to encourage Agile development

Automated infrastructure with Chef allows DevOps teams to reduce time-to-market, manage scalability, complexity and the security of systems. Chef can automate the configuration, testing and deployment of applications, regardless of the number of servers. This is why tech leaders are collaborating with Chef to enable enterprise businesses to better deliver their goods and services to ...

LIX Pen: The world’s smallest 3D Pen that lets you draw in the air

3Doodler was the first 3D printing pen, which attracted international attention. The project raised over $2.3 million on Kickstarter from backers. But its bulky shape made it difficult for users to use it continuously. There have been a flurry of copycats since, but none have been much more ergonomic. An upcoming 3D printer pen from ...