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- UK works on military cyber attacks
- Quanta hit by Apple iWatch
- Weather goes into the IBM cloud
- Consortium buys most of Philips lighting
- Microsoft Surface, er surfaces
- Ethernet sales reach new height
- Solar, wind boosted by internet of things
- Mobile apps getting mature
| UK works on military cyber attacks Posted: 01 Apr 2015 03:53 AM PDT
According to Professor Penelope Endersby, who heads up the lab: "Our adversaries present a real threat and it is therefore important that we too have the option to achieve military effects through and in cyberspace." DSTL, she said, is "developing new and novel capabilities to preserve the freedom of our armed forces to operate on a digital battlefield". The lab has opened a new facility called Cyber Evaluation and Assessment which she said will help government departments understand where vulnerabilities in the UK's cyber defence capabilities may be. DSTL will work with several unnamed government departments to create "cutting edge cyber capabilities for military operations". |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2015 03:43 AM PDT
A UBS analyst, quoted in today's Taipei Times, thinks that Quanta will find putting the Apple kit together will be more expensive than first thought. And products made by Quanta may not be available until the end of this calendar quarter. Another variable factor is that while Apple has received lots of press coverage for its smart iWatch, it's entirely possible sales might not pan out to be as great as the hype suggests. Quanta, like many of the major Taiwanese ODMs, operates on razor thin margins – for the last quarter of 2014 it amounted to a measly 1.26 percent. Analyst Wang Wanli is quoted as saying in the Taipei Times that the Apple watch yield is less than 50 percent – compounded by the need to rush to market and get good production yields right away. |
| Weather goes into the IBM cloud Posted: 01 Apr 2015 03:32 AM PDT
Unfortunately, IBM said, business systems think every day is the same, and don't take account of hurricanes, twisters and piles of snow. So because of that, unexpected weather systems don't always trigger responses from businesses. IBM believes that using cloud computing and the internet of things (IoT), data can be collected from over 100,000 weather sensors, aircrafts, smartphones, smart buildings and vehicles on the road and rail. The Weather Company thinks that by using the IBM cloud, it will be able to create one of the biggest cloud applications in the known universe. IBM and the Weather Company will offer Watsons Analytics for Weather, cloud and mobile app developer tools using weather data, and consultants will be trained to move to business "pain points". Pain points, we understand are adverse weather conditions. |
| Consortium buys most of Philips lighting Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:53 AM PDT
The deal is expected to go through in the third quarter of this year, with the company operating under the name of Lumileds. According to market research company Trendforce, Lumileds is the leader in high power LED products using flip chip technology. High power LEDs face competition from many Asian LED manufacturers. Analyst Roger Chu at Trendforce believes Philips divested itself of the lighting division because revenues were steadily falling. Chu added that Lumileds is in the top five intellectual property owners in the LED industry, and Philips will turn over 600 patents to the Lumileds consortium. He said that the major investors are Chinese and that will give Lumileds a clear advantage. GO Scale Capital has already invested in a number of other LED companies, putting it in a strong position for the future. |
| Microsoft Surface, er surfaces Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:46 AM PDT Software giant Microsoft announced its Surface 3 PC today, with the firm taking pre-orders for units from today. The company said the Surface 3 is thinner, lighter and cheaper. The Surface 3 will also offer 4G LTE for better mobility and the unit costs £420 – that's cheaper, but it's not exactly a rock bottom price. The machine uses a quad core Intel Atom x7 microprocessor, and Microsoft claims it has a battery life of up to 10 hours. You can choose different storage and memory specs, and the machine includes a 10.8 inch ClearType HD multitouch display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, stereo Dolby speakers and a magnesium case. Oh, and you can get Windows 10 for free when it's released – the Surface 3 comes with the 8.1 version of Microsoft's operating system. The price also includes a one year subscription of Microsoft Office 365, and the company is aiming the machine at the education market as well as businesses. Prada, BASF and Emirates are early adopters of the Surface 3. The machines will start selling on May 7th through shops including PC World, John Lewis, Argos, Staples and Littlewoods. |
| Ethernet sales reach new height Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:37 AM PDT Global sales of Ethernet switches rose by five percent last year to stand at $21.7 billion. Why the surge? According to a report from IHS, it's all about investments to network infrastructure to satisfy demands by applications. China showed particularly strong growth last year with revenue up by 17 percent compared to the year before. Sales of 10GE switches are slowing but even so, port shipments grew 27 percent last year. But shipments of 40GE ports tripled last year, and revenues doubled. 40GE port shipments were outstripped by 100GE ports – which grew sixfold last year. And white box switches – often supplied by players including Amazon and Google also showed strong growth. Cisco only managed to boost its Ethernet switch sales by one percent in the fourth quarter of last year, but IHS thinks the giant company is turning its fortunes round. |
| Solar, wind boosted by internet of things Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:28 AM PDT Even though governments are beginning to move away from subsidising the use of solar and power technologies, there's still a bright side to the industries' futures. According to market research company ABI Intelligence, growth will depend on the internet of things (IoT), and connected wind and solar installations will grow at a CAGR of 21 percent between now and 2020. By 2020, connected systems will grow from below two million last year to 6.3 million in 2020. How will the IoT boost these industries? ABI believes that the most important factor for growth are remote monitoring of energy production as well as condition monitoring of systems coupled to cloud based analytics. And the impact of the IoT means there's business opportunities because the remote monitoring market remains fragmented. IoT features will be important not just for customers but for suppliers too, and cellular connectivity is going to play its part in boosting growth. |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:11 AM PDT A survey by Gartner has revealed that after eight years using smarthone applications, the penny has dropped with people and their interest in apps has "mellowed". That means that developers need to sharpen their wits and concentrate on keeping people happy by better development, better marketing and better branding. Gartner conducted a survey of 2,000 people in the USA and Germany and looked at how people intend to use their apps in the future. App use is high in all categories but unsurprisingly social media and video are top of the pops. Gartner concludes that peoples' engagement with apps could be reaching a plateau and that will force product managers to create and make money in different ways because people just won't change their app consumption patterns. People, however, "remain excited" about what apps can do for them. |
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