Couchbase 4.0 review: The Swiss Army knife of NoSQL
Couchbase Server, similar to MongoDB and RethinkDB, is a document-oriented distributed database, but that description sells it a good deal…
New 4" iPhone predicted to drive $5.5B in new sales for Apple in 2016
Apple’s refreshed 4-inch iPhone is predicted by one analyst to add 10 million units to Apple’s total handset sales this…
IBM and Microsoft Will Let You Roll Your Own Blockchain
They call it the Hyperledger. And it can be yours. The post IBM and Microsoft Will Let You Roll Your…
How I use Siri to assist my life
Slowly, inexorably, Siri has become a real assistant helping me manage my life. Apple shipped Siri in 2011 as the…
IDG Contributor Network: Why the Department of Defense just started deploying Windows 10
Starting this month, the U.S. Department of Defense will start deploying Windows 10 to about 4M devices within the next…
Apple-sponsored NFC Forum working to bring contactless payments to U.S. public transit
The NFC Forum — an industry lobbying group that counts Apple as a board member — on Wednesday announced a…
Defense Department to put Windows 10 on 4M computers
The U.S. Department of Defense will standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft’s latest operating…
IDG Contributor Network: Avoiding indecipherable M.D. scrawl: Nuance delivers a health-specific speech-to-text offering
I once had a colleague who wasn’t efficient typing emails and documents and hence resorted to using Dragon’s speech recognition…
Nintendo opens up pre-registration for Miitomo smartphone app
As promised, Nintendo has started taking sign-ups for people who want to pre-register for the game publisher’s first smartphone app,…
Donald Trump says Apple should back down in San Bernardino case
Surprise right-wing presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on Apple’s fight with the U.S. government on Wednesday, saying the iPhone…