Apps
Samsung stung for $539 million for copying iPhone features
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today was ordered by a court to pay $539 million in damages to Apple Inc. over patent infringement relating to the design of the iPhone. In a case that has…
Apps
Andy Rubin’s startup Essential reportedly cancels next phone, explores possible sale
Essential Products Inc., a startup created by Google Inc.’s Android operating system creator Andy Rubin (pictured), is reported to have canceled its plans for a second smartphone, and is instead exploring the possibility of…
Infra
Xenotime hacking group targeting industrial safety systems in the US
By Duncan Riley
The same group behind the Triton malware attack that targeted critical industrial infrastructure in the Middle East last year is believed to be behind a new campaign targeting industrial control systems in the U.S. Dubbed…
Apps
Web 2.0 website discovery service StumbleUpon to close after 16 years
By Duncan Riley
StumbleUpon, a website discovery service that at its peak had hundreds of millions of users, is closing after 16 years, one of the few remaining services from the Web 2.0 era. Founded in 2001,…
Apps
Intelligent document automation provider Conga lands $47M in funding
Intelligent document automation company AppExtremes LLC, which does business as Conga, is ready to double down on its global expansion plans after landing a $47 million round of funding Thursday led by Insight Venture…
Emerging Tech
NTSB: Uber had disabled emergency braking system in fatal crash vehicle
By Duncan Riley
A U.S. National Transport Safety Bureau investigation into a fatal accident involving an Uber Technologies Inc. in March has preliminarily confirmed that not only was Uber’s software to blame but the company had also…
Infra
Nutanix shares fall on bigger-than-expected third-quarter loss
Nutanix Inc., a provider of data center infrastructure for enterprises, saw its share price fall by more than 4 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after posting a bigger-than-expected loss in its fiscal third quarter.…
Emerging Tech
Amazon Echo secretly records and sends private conversation without permission
By Duncan Riley
Confirming privacy advocates’ worst nightmares, an Amazon Echo not only recorded a private conversation without permission but then sent it to a random contact on the device. The strange story of technology gone wild…
Cloud
Dell EMC leads HCI market: How did it happen?
Dell EMC recently announced that it is the number one market leader in hyperconverged infrastructure. So how did it happen? Gil Shneorson (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of VxRail at Dell EMC, helped bring…
Cloud
Software-defined data center drives efficiencies at CenturyLink
What is a software-defined data center, and why is it the next step in the evolving concept of a data center? David Shacochis (pictured, left), vice president of product management at CenturyLink Inc., and Jim Aluotto (pictured, right),…