3 ways Ello could top Facebook
Time at the top is usually limited. In the case of social media, the stay at the top may be even shorter for businesses trying to capitalize on trends. Facebook, Inc. rose to prominence…
Three months late and $200M short, IBM-Lenovo server deal finally looks to be closing
Lenovo Group Ltd. is on course to becoming the world’s third largest supplier of commodity servers after regulators signed off on a multi-billion dollar deal that will see it take over IBM’s x86 business.…
Oracle completes cloud pivot by releasing flagship products as services | #OOW14
After years of trying to ignore the trend into non-existence, Oracle Corp is finally giving up on swimming against the cloud computing current and following arch-rivals SAP SE and IBM in making its flagship…
NetApp and Oracle: Slow-dancing customers toward cloud | #OOW14
Looking to help customers move to the cloud at their own comfortable pace is Oracle Corp. and storage partner NetApp, Inc. A business outcome-focused approach has helped NetApp maintain it’s vendor-agnostic policies while encouraging the…
GoPro’s new ‘Hero’ is a game changer
By Collen Kriel
GoPro, Inc. is releasing its new Hero line of cameras on October 5th. The range includes the Hero, the Hero4 Silver and the Hero4 Black. While the three new models vary in price and…
OpenDaylight gets a lot more open – and functional – with second “Helium” release
Just short of eight months after launch, the OpenDaylight Project is already marking its second lap towards unifying the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem with a new major release that fully lives up to the…
Slim, colorful and cheap – HP’s new Stream series of Windows tablets
By Collen Kriel
Announced September 29th, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s new colorful and thin HP Stream series of Windows laptops and tablets are machines looking to combine work and play. The range consists of two new laptops and two…
Xbox One at last on sale in China, without Halo
By Collen Kriel
On Monday, September 29, Xbox One went on sale in more than 4,000 retail outlets in 37 cities across mainland China. The country recently ended a 14-year ban on the sale of foreign-made game consoles,…
FireChat: Off-the-grid messaging app fuels Hong Kong’s protests
Sites like Twitter and Facebook hit the headlines for their role in the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, and now pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have discovered a new kind of mobile service to…
Opinion: Consumerization boosting user interface quality for all
Since the first commercial computers of the 1950s the user interface (UI) has been the ugly stepchild of corporate software. Always the last component to be designed, UIs are often boring, forms-based, and difficult…