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What you missed in Cloud: Blurring the competitive lines
Last week saw the rivalry among the top players in the public cloud flare up once again. Dropbox Inc. led the charge with the release of a major update to its iOS client that…
Uber could be worth $50 billion by the end of the month
Uber Inc., which builds the ride-sharing app of the same name that has taxi firms the world over running scared, could soon be worth $50 billion if rumors of a new $2 billion funding…
With the CoBattery case you never have to charge your iPhone again
By Collen Kriel
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students have taken to Kickstarter to fund a project aimed at eliminating the need to charge your iPhone. Relying on battery swapping instead of conventional charging,…
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What you missed in Big Data: Tuning into the connected signal
The range of potential applications for analytics in the enterprise grew even wider last week after SnapLogic Inc. rolled out a new pipelining capability that extends the reach of its integration service beyond the…
Russian-made Elbrus chips, PCs and servers hit the market
Ever since Edward Snowden lifted the lid on the full extent of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, foreign nations have been looking for alternatives to U.S. manufactured equipment. In the wake of Snowden’s revelations,…
Tableau Software thrashes analyst expectations in Q1
Tableau Software Inc. posted blockbuster first quarter of 2015 earnings, showing an astonishing 75 percent revenue growth year-over-year to $130.1 million. That figure helped the firm to smash the estimate among analysts surveyed by…
Report: China smartphone market declined in Q1, says IDC
By Collen Kriel
A report released Monday by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that China’s smartphone market declined by 4 percent year-on-year with 98.8 million smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2015 compared…
Microsoft marching on with its Surface tablets: but what about the Pro Surface 4?
With Microsoft’s Surface 3 tablet collecting some very positive reviews, from us, and over much of the tech media – one writer going as far as to call it “the ultimate”, “superb” tablet –…
Report: 21 Inc. wants to give away Bitcoin mining toasters, revenue share on returns
By Duncan Riley
Mysterious Bitcoin startup 21 Inc. may be coming to a toaster near you, with a report over the weekend perhaps disclosing clearly for the first time what the company with $121 million in the…
New concept images show off iPhone 7 design
By Collen Kriel
As we reported a few weeks ago, Apple’s next iPhone is likely to be called the ‘iPhone7’ and it’s due for release in September. Now, commissioned by ComputerBild.de, well-known German designer Martin Hajek has…