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Wink’s smart home outage and other automation woes

By Mellisa Tolentino Apr 30, 2015

This week’s Smart World Problems edition features how denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are evolving in today’s connected world, the impact of a smart home outage and a report regarding the growing privacy and security concerns…

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East African consumer goods manufacturer turns to IBM to support 5-year, 4X growth plan

By Bert Latamore Apr 30, 2015

Kenyan-based food and consumer goods manufacturer and distributor Bidco Africa, Ltd., plans to become the number one supplier of consumer goods including cooking oils, baking products, detergents, personal care and beauty products and animal…

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Why Flash-as-Memory-Extension is the future of enterprise storage

By Bert Latamore Apr 30, 2015

For decades, storage read/write speed was the gating factor for data center performance. In the last three years that has changed with the advent of NAND flash storage, with nanosecond I/O response times that are…

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A storage unicorn is born as Infinidat raises $150 million for $1.2 billion valuation

By Maria Deutscher Apr 30, 2015

The storage industry gained a new representative in the billion-dollar-plus valuation club this week after Infinidat Inc. raised $150 million from investors to help drive the adoption of its groundbreaking hybrid array. The system…

Report: Apple Watch delays may be due to faulty taptic engine

By Collen Kriel Apr 30, 2015

Within minutes of online pre-orders opening for Apple’s the new wearable, some customers were informed that their Apple Watch won’t ship until June – a delay of five to six weeks over the advertised…

Amazon acquires AWS EC2 spot market savings startup ClusterK

By Duncan Riley Apr 30, 2015

Amazon has snapped up ClusterK, Inc., a startup that allows other companies to save up to 90 percent on Amazon Web Services EC2 spot clusters. The price of the acquisition hasn’t been publicly announced,…

Microsoft’s HoloLens dazzles at Build 2015, but cost and release date remain a mystery

By James Farrell Apr 30, 2015

Microsoft showed off its augmented reality headset to good effect at Build 2015 in San Francisco, wooing the crowds with demonstrations of how your living room can be turned into a virtual holographic work,…

Report: Salesforce has hired bankers to field takeover offers

By Duncan Riley Apr 29, 2015

Salesforce.com, Inc. is said to have hired bankers to field takeover offers after being approached by a potential acquirer, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. News of the potential acquisition of the Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM giant…

Samsung stages comeback as world’s largest smartphone maker

By Collen Kriel Apr 29, 2015

Research released Tuesday by Strategy Analytics shows that worldwide smartphone shipments increased 21 percent from a year ago to 345 million units shipped in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, down from the 33…

$35 million in VC later, anonymous app Secret is closing down

By Duncan Riley Apr 29, 2015

Anonymous messaging app Secret is closing down, despite having raised $35 million and a period of being praised as the next big thing. The app, originally founded in October 2013 as a way to secretly share…