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Building Pakistan’s first smart city

By Mellisa Tolentino Jul 30, 2015

This week’s Smart City roundup features a new partnership expected to spur enterprise adoption of The Internet of Things (IoT), new options for smart buildings seeking lighting control, and a strategic team up to…

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Obama signs executive order to build world’s first exascale supercomputer

By Maria Deutscher Jul 30, 2015

The next big breakthrough in supercomputing may not come from IBM Corp, Cray Inc. or any of the other original pioneers of the field but rather a new interagency task force formed through an…

When Numerous meets IFTTT, you rule the world

By Kristen Nicole Jul 30, 2015

Numerous Inc. founder Charlie Wood expects his personal data dashboard to be the most powerful integrator of IFTTT Inc. (If This Then That) channels after today. Evolving beyond just a dashboard for tracking MisFit…

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DataTorrent debuts free data integration service to complement its ultra-fast Spark alternative

By Maria Deutscher Jul 30, 2015

DataTorrent Inc. is wasting no time adjusting to its new status as an open-source company. Merely two months after releasing its homegrown data crunching engine for Hadoop under an Apache 2.0 license, the analytics…

How many “cloud giants” are there anyway?

By Mike Wheatley Jul 30, 2015

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google are blazing a trail as the “Big Four” leaders in cloud infrastructure services, seizing control of over half the market, according to a new report from…

Sri Lanka to get blanket Web access via Google’s Project Loon

By Mike Wheatley Jul 30, 2015

Sri Lanka is all set to receive blanket Internet coverage throughout the country after it penned a deal with Google to deploy its Project Loon across its territory. On Wednesday, Sri Lanka said it…

Amazon signs former Top Gear hosts for new motoring show

By Duncan Riley Jul 30, 2015

Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be returning to screens via Amazon.com, Inc. with the eCommerce giant signing all three for a new motoring show. The new, as…

Battle of the flagships continues: OnePlus 2 vs. Galaxy S6 edge+

By Collen Kriel Jul 30, 2015

OnePlus launched its “flagship killer”, the OnePlus 2 on Monday and we’ve already compared it to the iPhone 6 Plus. Since the OnePlus is an Android phone and aimed at the premium market, it…

Apple, Samsung lose tablet market share in Q2 as LG, Huawei capitalize despite shrinking market

By Collen Kriel Jul 30, 2015

Despite iPad sales falling to a four-year low in the quarter ended June 30 with just 10.9 million units shipped, Apple managed to hold on to the top spot as the worldwide tablet market…

Samsung Q2 mobile profits tumble 37.6% amid weak demand for Galaxy S6

By Collen Kriel Jul 30, 2015

In its second quarter (Q2) earnings announcement Thursday, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said net profit for the quarter declined 8 percent over the same period last year. The decline in net profit is largely…