Sensity Systems is teaming up with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to help lower air pollution and congestion levels in China’s cities, alongside providing video surveillance technology for the government. The two companies launched a joint venture spin-off, which will have its own IoT platform for Chinese Smart Cities....
Digital security solutions firm Tyfone is launching a new challenge at MIT focused on Internet of Things (IoT) security. Participants will be finding new ways to secure a Raspberry Pi-based IoT device or service by using the firm's Connected Smart Card. This challenge is made in coordination with the MIT Sandbox Innovation...
Driverless startup NuTonomy might be the first company with a fleet of self-driving taxis on the roads, if the city of Singapore approves of a pilot program to be launched later this year. NuTonomy started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has been working for three years to...
Telecom giant Verizon has reached out to AOL about a potential acquisition or joint venture, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources.See also: Why Verizon Is Tracking All Your Mobile Web TrafficThese individuals, who asked not to be named because the talks are supposed to be kept private, said that Big Red has...
Many of today’s most well-known programming languages are old enough to vote. PHP is 20. Python is 23. HTML is 21. Ruby and JavaScript are 19. C is a whopping 42 years old. Nobody could have predicted this. Not even computer scientist Brian Kernighan, co-author of the very first book on...
If you ever wondered what would scare the bejeezus out of a university's computer science department, try this: In June, Google revealed that it no longer considers GPA scores as a hiring criteria. “One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that GPA's are worthless as a...
The rise of mobile apps has created tension in the world of data management. There's a disconnect between the fast-and-loose scalability of non-relational databases used to handle data for mobile applications and the prim-and-proper relational databases many businesses already use to manage their affairs.To face such tensions, IBM is stepping...
A Microsoft-sponsored survey released Wednesday found that almost half of Web users felt like they had already lost control of their own data while online - just days after the Australian government complianed that Microsoft's suggested data policies might lead to just that result.Some 45% of the 1,000 users polled...
Google is launching a new Cloud Partner Program that will formalize the ecosystem around its cloud compute and storage products and bring new ways for customers to tap into Google’s cloud offerings. They’ll also offer levels of service and support that might be difficult for Google alone to provide.The new...
Fancy joining Orange in Paris for indepth discussions about HTML5, 4G/LTE, NFC, LBS and M2M ? Well Orange have organised a Orange Partner Day for the 11-12th June. Read on for all the Information and signup link: Join us in Paris to discover, think about and share views...
To celebrate the first birthday of YouTube Live yesterday, Google announced that video creators can now monetize live events streaming on YouTube, either with ads or paid streaming. YouTube also made the Wirecast software free for partners, giving stream hosts the ability to do professional-quality live production. Television networks should...
The creator of the Piston Enterprise Operating System, or PentOS, was lauded for his contributions in helping to create cloud computing itself, through the pioneering NASA Nebula project. There, NASA first demonstrated how to fit a data center cluster in an ordinary shipping container, proving the space program can still...
At today's roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk's $1M funding from Accel Partners. Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized...
This Article is from Technet Blog: Today, Microsoft announced its tenth license agreement providing coverage under our patent portfolio for Android mobile phones and tablets. Today's agreement is with Compal, one of the world’s largest Original Design Manufacturers, or ODMs. Compal is based in Taiwan, where it produces smartphones and...
On Friday Google announced its Cloud Transformation Program, a quick way for larger enterprises to get started with a series of Google's cloud-based services. Included in the initial set are App Engine, Google Storage, Apps Script and Prediction API. The company is working with six MSPs to implement the program:...
Revolution Analytics, the enterprise face of R software, announced today that it will deliver R analytics on Cloudera and other Hadoop installations, The service is called RevoConnectR for Apache Hadoop. It is a collection of open-source packages that allows R programmers to access Hadoop HDFS and HBASE data stores in...
When Google launched its Wallets program in late May it had a very specific set of partners set for the initial rollout. CitiBank was the primary banker, MasterCard was the financial institution, Sprint is the first carrier. There are a plethora of others as well. Yet, those partners are just...
Third-party open application storefront Appia has been trying hard in the last several months to gain more consumer mind share. The company took a step towards that goal today, announcing a partnership with mobile distribution channel Zedge, a partnership that will bring Appia apps to users across the world.Zedge is...
Clear Channel, the largest radio station owner in the United States, has teamed up with music intelligence platform The Echo Nest to build an Internet radio service similar to Pandora and Last.fm.Clear Channel's iHeartRadio service uses The Echo Nest's massive dataset of 30 million songs and 5 billion related data...
Fox is striking a blow to free premium content by instituting an "authentication program" where the network's cable and satellite partners will have an exclusive eight-day window for Fox programs before they are made available to the Web. This means that users will have to be "verified subscribers" (paying customers)...
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