Tuesday, February 24, 2015

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IBM throws more money at clouds

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 03:35 AM PST

Screen Shot 2015-02-24 at 11.33.09IBM has already invested $1.2 billion in cloud services and has now announced it will open two cloud centres in Sydney and Montreal in the next 30 days.

In addition, Big Blue said it will build similar cloud centres in Milan, and in Chennai before the end of 2015 while it will announce further centres later on in the year. more»

US leans on Indonesia over smartphone law

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 02:38 AM PST

page_detail_zoom_3315The US government is leaning on Indonesia to daring to set up laws that forbid foreign smartphone makers from coming into the country.

The country is one of the few where smartphone makers have not been able to penetrate, and Indonesia has insisted that companies make 40 percent of their phones locally. more»

Microsoft used Cortina to predict the Oscars

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 02:37 AM PST

motoring-graphics-g_844446aThis years' Oscars were a reasonably successful test bed for Microsoft's new predictive technology — Cortina.

Microsoft predicted 20 of the 24 Oscar winners which is not a bad average and follows its accurate prediction of almost all of the World Cup’s knockout matches – a little better than the octopus. more»

Apple Air gets Broadwell

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 02:36 AM PST

27151_1_intel_rejects_the_idea_that_they_are_going_bga_only_fullIntel's disappointingly delayed Broadwell chips have found a customer in the fruity cargo cult in the shape of Apple's MacBook Air.

From Intel's perspective this is great news.  Not only will it get a customer for its silicon, the Tame Apple Press will start chanting that the chips are brilliant, innovative and state of the art. more»

AMD claims impressive power savings for Carrizo

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 02:35 AM PST

AMD-Technician-Poses-With-Chip-WaferAMD has been talking up its upcoming Carrizo chip for notebooks and low-power desktops claiming that it will cut power significantly over Kaveri.

Although AMD still is not saying what the actual power consumption or the performance of the Carrizo chip will be it hinted that will offer double-digit improvements in performance and battery life compared to Kaveri. more»

LG fights to make OLED more mainstream

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 02:33 AM PST

tvLG will partner with Chinese and Japanese firms in a bid to make organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display televisions more acceptable to the great unwashed.

LG has not said who it is teaming up with or what its OLED partnership would mean for those signing up to it. more»

Enterprises will adopt internet of things

Posted: 23 Feb 2015 07:36 AM PST

Internet of ThingsA report commissioned by Verizon looks today at enterprise adoption of the internet of things (IoT).

While only 10 percent of organisations currently are using IoT extensively, that picture will rapidly change.

Verizon said it saw a 45 percent increase in its IoT business last year, and a 135 percent increase in activations using 4G LTE, year on year. more»

Nvidia takes lead in add in graphics

Posted: 23 Feb 2015 06:38 AM PST

nvidia-shieldJon Peddie Research (JPR), which specialises in tracking the graphics and multimedia sectors, said that Nvidia took the lead in add in boards (AIBs) in the fourth quarter of 2014.

However, the overall shipments of AIBs fell by 17.52 percent, compared to the same quarter in 2013. more»

Apple blows money on two data centres

Posted: 23 Feb 2015 06:29 AM PST

Apple's CEO Tim Cook - shot from WikimediaApple has so much money swilling around in its bank account that it can easily afford to spend $2 billion on data centres in Europe.

And that's just what it's doing, according to a report from Reuters.

The centres will be based in Denmark and Ireland and will be powered by renewable energy and offer several hundred jobs. more»

Mobile market set to change

Posted: 23 Feb 2015 06:14 AM PST

smartphones-genericThe Mobile World Congress starts in Barcelona at the beginning of next month and Gartner has decided to give us its thoughts on changes that are afoot in this ever changing business.

What's apparent is that it's hard for the vendors to continue releasing phones that are very different from the competition. more»

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