Microsoft has opened up HoloLens, says partner products are coming soon
Microsoft has opened up the platform behind its HoloLens augmented reality device, inviting partners to build their own products in…
LinkedIn’s disturbing breach notice
Late last Wednesday (May 25), LinkedIn casually sent a note to its customers that opened with one of the least-calming…
Toyota said to be in talks to acquire two Google robotics companies
Toyota is close to acquiring two robotics companies from Google, according to a report in Wednesday’s Nikkei newspaper. The newspaper…
Review: Microsoft masters microservices
Many businesses either have implemented or claim to be implementing microservice architectures, for better or for worse. Microservice architectures give…
Oracle’s API stance would be silly if it weren’t so dangerous
The good news is that Google beat Oracle in the latest fight over the right of developers to use application…
Xiaomi feeds the troll — pays Microsoft for patents
Xiaomi and Microsoft are getting cozy. They’re announcing some sort of patent deal, which also involves pre-installing Microsoft’s Office and Skype…
Xiaomi acquires patents from Microsoft ahead of US entry plans
Microsoft has agreed to transfer some patents to Xiaomi, ahead of plans by the Chinese smartphone maker to enter the…
Printer security: Is your company's data really safe?
On March 24th of this year, 59 printers at Northeastern University in Boston suddenly output white supremacist hate literature, part…
Dell's private buyout shortchanged shareholders, court rules
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners paid about 22 percent too little for Dell when they took the company private…
Data mining, 1970s-style
Flashback a few decades to the days when phone records are still on paper, and this pilot fish works in…