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IBM Cloud adds Nvidia Tesla M60s to speed up VDI workloads
While it still has a long way to go before catching up with AWS and Azure on adoption, IBM Corp. is already pulling ahead it comes to the breadth of hardware options available in…
ThoughtSpot raises $50M to make BI as easy as using Google
The idea of making complex analytics software more like the sleek consumer apps that workers use when they’re off the clock is nothing new in the vendor community. But no provider has taken the concept…
Now it really looks like the end of the line for Lumia phone
There has been speculation for some time now that Microsoft will put to bed the Lumia phone, and while it’s no secret that the company has been concentrating on other ambitions outside of phones,…
Gartner shows PC vendors how to boost their profits
Everybody has known for ages that the PC market, while perhaps not quite doomed, is certainly going through a long period of decline which it’s unlikely to bounce back from. Tech industry analysts including…
Google’s video-calling app Duo takes on Apple’s FaceTime
By Collen Kriel
Followed closely behind the launch of its new messaging service, Allo, Google Inc. has also announced Duo, a simple video-calling app, at its I/O developers conference. Unlike Facebook Messenger, Google decided not to combine…
Google Allo: Smart messaging for iOS, Android with AI-based chatbot, Smart Replies, more
By Collen Kriel
At its I/O developers conference, Google Inc. released Allo, a strong competitor to Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and iMessage. Allo is a smart messaging app that comes with machine learning Smart Replies and its AI-based…
Smash hit: Google Photos passes 200m active users
By Duncan Riley
Google’s smash hit photo app Google Photos is continuing its phenomenal run with the company announcing at its annual I/O conference Wednesday that the app now has over 200 million active users. On top…
VMware ditches Windows for all-new HTML 5 vSphere client
VMware Inc., says admins will soon only be able to operate vSphere from its HTML 5 client, because it’s about to stop developing its Windows client. In a blog post announcing the decision, VMware…
Fitbit has acquired Coin so it can integrate NFC payments into its wearables
By Duncan Riley
Smart wearables maker FitBit, Inc. has acquired the wearable payment assets of smart credit card maker Coin, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Under the deal, Fitbit obtains key personnel and intellectual property specific to…
Cisco breezes past Wall Street’s expectations with solid Q3
There was a lot of apprehension in investor’s circles ahead of Cisco Systems Inc.’s third-quarter earnings report, but those worries were exaggerated. Once again, Cisco blew past Wall Street’s expectations, with its share price surging…