Smart bed cover tracks sleep and heart rates, regulates temp.
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a smart bed cover, a fitness tracker to control your home and an app to rule your connected home. Luna If you’re looking for a way to wake…
Naughtiest online dating scams: Use protection this Valentines Day
With the rapid progression of technology, meeting people has never been easier. Gone are the days when you had to rely on random meetings in a bar, blind dates or hook-ups from friends. With…
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HP acquires Voltage Security in Big Data encryption push
Hewlett-Packard Company has stepped up its enterprise security software game with the announcement of its forthcoming acquisition of data-encryption specialists Voltage Security Inc., for an undisclosed sum. Voltage Security has built a data encryption…
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MemSQL extends in-memory database with Apache Spark connector
By Paul Gillin
Continuing its campaign to evangelize the virtues of the SQL query language while also embracing alternatives, MemSQL, Inc. is rolling out a connector for the popular Apache Spark framework that it says enables rapid…
Why Eurogamer dropped review scores for games
By Eric David
Reviews are a matter of opinion, and no one is more opinionated than critics. Many critics rely on numerical scores to tell readers how good a video game is, some using a scale of 1 to 10 and others…
Is free Internet.org better for India, or for Facebook?
By Eric David
It is no secret that India has enormous potential as an emerging market, and as the fastest growing economy in the world, western companies are scrambling to find a foothold in the subcontinent. Earlier this…
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What you missed in Cloud: New frontiers for virtualization
The competition over enterprise cloud spending kicked into high gear last week on the virtualization front as VMware revealed a new version of its namesake hypervisor that promises to address some of the biggest…
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Cisco to let customers run competitors’ software on its flagship switches
Cisco Systems Inc. is adding support for a key software-defined networking standard to its flagship backbone switches as part of an effort to provide customers with more freedom in how they run their environments.…
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Actifio cloudifies data virtualization tech to keep storage costs down
Actifio Inc. is launching a new cloud-based implementation of its flagship data virtualization technology that offers to help companies protect their applications from outages more effectively. The service tackles a new side of the…
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Iterable nets $1.2 million for holistic email marketing service
An emerging startup called Iterable Inc. has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from a group of prominent angel investors to bring email back to the marketing fore in the social media era. The…