My smart home shopping list as a first-time mom
As of writing, I am 30 weeks and five days pregnant. Only nine weeks and two days to go, give or take a few days, and I will finally be able to hold my…
IBM’s fresh take on mobile | #IBMInterconnect
IBM’s partnership with Apple shows that “these established enterprises are beginning to think, speak, and act like entrepreneurs,” said Douglas Soltys, the Senior Editor of Mobile Syrup. An entrepreneurial mindset is key to the…
With iOS 8.3 Siri learns new languages and emojis become more diverse
By Collen Kriel
On Monday Apple Inc. rolled out iOS 8.3 beta to developers. Along with the usual bug fixes, the update includes support for more diverse emojis and new languages for Siri. The iOS emoji set…
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Paradigm shift: How Apache Mesos is reshaping the data center into a giant PC
Most people couldn’t get much done on their computers without an operating system. Working the hardware directly would require the specialized knowledge and near-infinite patience to manually feed instructions to each processor on the…
HP reshuffles Helion cloud leadership as Mårten Mickos steps down
Hewlett-Packard Company’s cloud division is in the midst of a management reshuffle, with reports suggesting that senior vice president Marten Mickos, formerly the CEO of cloud vendor Eucalyptus, has stepped down from day-to-day operations…
Rumor: Apple poaching Samsung’s battery experts
By Collen Kriel
Apple Inc. is apparently poaching Samsung Electronics Co.’s experts in next-generation technology including those specializing in signal- and visual processing management. Anonymous officials in the employ of the South Korean tech giant spoke to…
Apple to invest $1.9B in two European data centers, biggest and greenest project ever
By Collen Kriel
On Monday, Apple Inc. announced plans to build and operate its first ever data centers in Europe. The company will invest 1.7 billion euros ($1.93 billion) to build two data centers powered by renewable…
Google Wallet, Softcard and wireless carriers join forces against Apple Pay
By Collen Kriel
In January, rumors surfaced that Google Inc. was in talks to acquire NFC-based mobile payments service, Softcard. On Monday, Google officially announced that it had purchased “technology and intellectual property” from Softcard to improve…
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Microsoft brings Machine Learning in the cloud
Microsoft believes that too much of the world’s Big Data is going to waste, and so it’s just launched a new intitiative to help organizations process it all, build APIs and finally make some…
I was wrong: Microsoft is still killing Dropbox
This is the first time I’ve ever followed up a “looks like I was wrong” column with one saying “or maybe I was wrong about that.” Just the other day, I called back my position that…