You can cover iPhone SE with an old 5S case, but why?
Apple has finally introduced the iPhone SE and despite being described as a smaller version of the iPhone 6S, it looks a lot like an even older iPhone model, the 5S. Though some might think…
Security is not the path to Japan’s smart home market, as Icontrol expands beyond U.S.
Icontrol Networks, Inc., the company that specializes in home automation and security systems, announced that its foothold in the Japanese market has expanded with five new service provider customers via its Intelligent HOME platform.…
Red Hat becomes first $2 billion open-source software vendor
By Paul Gillin
It turns out there is money to be made in open source. Red Hat Inc. beat Wall Street expectations and edged over the $2 billion annual revenue threshold, reporting fourth-quarter revenues of $544 million,…
FusionOps adds pre-defined prescriptive analytics to their supply chain intelligence cloud
By Duncan Riley
Supply chain intelligence cloud provider FusionOps, Inc. has today announced that they have added pre-defined prescriptive analytics to their cloud platform The new feature will give enterprise users access to data science-backed recommendations that…
Glad to be back: Mark Zuckerberg takes heaps of abuse for his trip to China
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might feel glad he’s home, if indeed he’s been reading what thousands of netizens have been saying about his trip to the East. Zuckerberg was there, mainly it’s reported, as…
UK legal tech startup Apperio raises $2.4m in seed funding
By Duncan Riley
Legal tech startup Apperio Ltd. has raised £1.7 million ($2.4 million) in seed funding in a round led by Notion Capital that included NextLaw Labs and IQ Capital. Based in the United Kingdom, Apperio…
Bitcoin payment provider Coinify lands new deal to offer services in Asia-Pacific region
By Duncan Riley
Bitcoin merchant services provider Coinify ApS has announced a new deal with Hong Kong-based payment service provider iPayDNA International Ltd. to bring advanced Blockchain payment options to merchants in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the…
Microsoft may have just made DCI boxes obsolete
Microsoft may have just landed a death blow to the emerging data center interconnect (DCI) systems market, after developing an alternative to dedicated DCI boxes in partnership with little-known Inphi Corp., a vendor of…
Cisco revamps engineering business around Cloud and IoT
Networking giant Cisco Systems Ltc. Has just announced a major restructuring of its engineering business unit under CEO Chuck Robbins. The reorganization, announced via an email to Cisco staff from Robbins, will see Cisco’s…
Google adds support for Node.js on App Engine
Google is showing Node.js some love by adding support for the open-source, cross-platform runtime environment on its App Engine service. As of today, Google now offers access to a Node.js runtime via App Engine,…