Siri for your smart home: Speak and it shall be
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a startup with hopes of becoming a Siri-like assistant for the home, a smart lock that’s Army tough, and a new gadget that turns old smartphones into a smart…
Microsoft endorses Docker
Microsoft is lending its considerable presence to the Docker express. The company today announced that future versions of Windows Server will support the application container technology. The strategic partnership with Docker Inc. means that organizations running…
Where to buy Samsung Galaxy Note 4: How it compares to iPhone 6 Plus
Steve Jobs may have once laughed at the idea of phablets, handsets too large to be called phones but too small to be called tablets. Yet the large-screened devices combine the best of both worlds,…
What’s next: Analytics is undergoing a fundamental reinvention | #data14
Breaking rules laid down by legacy enterprise platforms, Tableau Software and Alteryx Inc. encourage sharing and self-reliance, emphasizing the user experience above all. Alteryx COO George Mathew spoke with theCUBE’s Jeff Kelly and John Furrier…
Broadcom leaves Internet of Things group it helped found
Broadcom Inc. has quietly left a key industry consortium that is trying to bring much needed communications standards to the connected universe in what marks the first major setback on the long and predictably bumpy…
Attunity takes aim at Syncsort with Hadoop replication tool
Attunity Ltd. is using the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week to pull the curtains back on a new release of its core replication software that promises to make it…
Dorian Nakamoto wants Bitcoins to make Newsweek pay up
In March, Newsweek identified Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, but the man quickly denied the claims. Nakamoto insisted he did “not create, invent, or otherwise work on Bitcoin,” in an…
Need to rent a car? Get a good deal with Alipay
By Collen Kriel
Alipay is Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s electronic payment service and over the past year, it has transformed into a mobile payment tool. Smartphone users are able to use the payments app to pay for…
Tablet sales hits the skids in 2014: Gartner
By Collen Kriel
As Apple Inc looks to revive lagging tablet sales with the upcoming launch of the new iPad Air, Retina iMacs and possibly a new Retina iPad mini, Gartner today released its latest report showing…
Apple & Facebook will pay female workers to keep their eggs ‘in the basket’
Silicon Valley has long been a fertile hunting ground for top technology talents, but Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., are putting a new spin on the meaning, by offering to freeze their female employees’…