Insurers Hope Home Automation Will Reduce Claims
If home automation can reduce insurance claims due to fire, water damage and theft, insurers may become advocates for Internet of Things technologies. That could change the business model for the...
View ArticleHelp Desks Of The Future Maybe Staffed By Robots
Competing forces are affecting humans who staff help or service desks. One is that tools to automate IT support are continually improving, and advocates say those tools can replace Level 1 and 2...
View ArticleSolar Expected To Be Biggest Power Source By 2050
The sun could be the globe’s main electricity source by mid-century with the amount of new photovoltaic (PV) panel installations soaring at 100MW daily, according to a pair of new reports. The reports,...
View ArticleDawn Of The Robots By 2025?
Gartner envisions things like robots and drones replacing a third of all human workers by 2025. “One day, a drone may be your eyes and ears,” said Peter Sondergaard, Gartner’s research director. In...
View ArticleCloud To Account For Most Of Data Centers Traffic By 2018
Over the next four years, data center traffic is expected to experience explosive growth, largely thanks to a booming cloud computing industry. That’s according to Cisco’s fourth annual Global Cloud...
View ArticleAre We Moving Too Fast Into Cloud Computing?
Dell is not alone in promoting a hybrid approach to cloud adoption. Microsoft is adding hybrid cloud capability to the next version of Windows Server.
View ArticleSamsung Projecting 70M Galaxy S6, Edge Phones To Be Sold
Samsung has recently described the first week of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge sales as “impressive” and predicted overall sales for both devices will break a record, passing 70 million globally for...
View ArticleIs Samsung The Top Player In The Smartphone Arena?
Samsung also warned that the typical industry pattern of a stronger second half may not be as pronounced this year due to risks like the weaker euro and emerging market currencies.
View ArticleAre Developers Rushing To The Cloud?
IBM announced SuperVessel last week to encourage open source cloud development on the Power platform, bolstering the existing and wildly successful Bluemix environment.
View ArticleApple Watch Expected To Dominate Smartwatch Market
The Apple Watch is expected to capture nearly two-thirds of the smartwatch market for all of 2015, according to a new forecast from market research firm IDC. IDC had said two weeks ago that Apple will...
View ArticleWill Wearable Devices Ever Take Off?
The problem appears to be that while everyone is saying "wearables" no one has really come up with a good product yet, or one that attracts anyone's attention. If Apple could not market up a storm,...
View ArticleHP Goes After Security In Smartwatches
The best practice if a zombie has bitten your arm and infected you with a virus, for example, would be to chop it off. Your arm, that is.
View ArticleIBM Buys Compose Cloud Services Company
"By joining IBM, we will have an opportunity to accelerate the development of our database platform and offer even more services and support to developer teams," said Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO at...
View ArticleIs IBM Trying To Patent Up The Cloud Market?
What this could mean is that IBM is gearing up for a cloud patent wars. Such patents could be defensive, just in case the likes of Oracle tries to take down IBM, but it could be hard to sit on patents...
View ArticleAre Smartwatches A Security Risk?
pple seems to do the best work here, and is credited with using a timeout function to prevent easy bad man activation.
View ArticleIs The Apple Watch Really A Success?
It is talking about how more people will flock to the smartwatch when Apple releases all the functionality it promised for the smartwatch the first time.
View ArticleAre People Dumping The Apple Watch?
What strikes us as more disturbing is that roughly half the dissatisfied owners who responded think they might still buy the next one. This really does mean that Apple users are masochists who never...
View ArticleReport Predicts 1 In 3 Medical Records Will Be Hacked Next Year
The public will see an uptick in successful cyberattacks against their online health records next year; supercomputers like IBM’s Watson will reduce patient deaths and treatment costs by 10% in 2018;...
View ArticleIs The Apple Watch Dragging The Smartwatch Industry Down?
Garmin gained 2 percentage points (from 2 percent to 4 percent), despite flat shipments. Its Connect IQ-enabled devices remain niche, as they mainly only target athletes.
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