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Salesforce connects wearable tech to the workplace, launches Wear
Hoping to get in on the ground floor of the emerging BYOx (Bring Your Own Anything) market, Salesforce is launching the Wear platform, a dedicated initiative for wearable computing in the enterprise. Despite shaky consumer interest in this emerging sector, wearable tech remains an active area of interest for gadgets like Pebble the fitness wristband, ...
Will Docker or HP steal the show at OpenStack Summit? Watch LIVE
Software-defined trends are reshaping IT and datacenter infrastructure, shifting an entire industry around cloud capabilities, with an emphasis on scalability. While disruptors like Amazon Web Services (AWS) have tipped the scale, legacy vendors like Hewlett-Packard and IBM turn to open source initiatives to keep up. Delving deep into the world of open source, the OpenStack ...
Highlights from IBM Impact 2014
SiliconANGLE’s just wrapped its live broadcast of IBM Impact with #theCUBE, a traveling news team that distracts the signal from the noise. This was the latest in a string of IBM events intending to redefine Big Blue’s messaging to existing customers and newcomers alike, centering a cohesive portfolio on cloud solutions, analytics, mobile and Big ...
The academic + corporate perspectives on Big Data education : Cloudera goes to school
Cloudera may have received a hefty investment from Intel, a move that validated Big Data efforts and cloud-driven service models for an emerging market, yet the platform provider is continuing to make significant investments of its own, namely in Big Data education. Among the first companies to offer Big Data management services, Cloudera has every ...
“What we did right was something different and honest.” Blueshift founder on wireless speaker design
Wireless technology is one of the most significant contributors towards widespread adoption of smart home technology, lowering the barriers and costs involved in connecting just a room or an entire home. Instead of paying for a custom install, devices can connect to each other and to home networks over WiFi, NFC or radio waves to ...
Pivotal gears up for multi-front war with Big Data Suite
Making its play for Hadoop in the enterprise, Pivotal revealed a flexible Big Data computing suite today. The joint venture between EMC , VMware and General Electric hope to ease enterprise adoption with more tools and better pricing options. The Pivotal Big Data Suite is a subscription-based package that bundles Pivotal Greenplum Database, Pivotal GemFire, ...
Is the Smart Home buzzing at SxSW 2014?
I’d been on the fence about going to SxSW this year until I learned of the Connected Home Developers Garage. The event host, iControl, invited me to an early look at their setup, demonstrating one of their partners’ solutions (see their demo in the video below). That partner was Time Warner cable, which is using ...
Springpad launches Notebook Store : Won’t be selling socks
Personal assistant app provider Springpad unveiled the Notebook Store today, a place where Springpad users can jump start their own digital notebooks designed for specific life tasks and projects. The idea is to get them motivated, organized, and help them get things done. Springpad has partnered with more than 50 brands, publishers and influencers to create notebooks ...
Ooma sees services potential in smart homes : Call beyond the phone
I recently tested the Ooma IP-based home telephone service, and was immediately intrigued with the Memo feature as I set up my voicemail. This Ooma feature essentially lets you record messages for yourself or others in the house, which are delivered as voicemail messages. Sure, it seems like a feature made for Louis from Suits, ...
Smart cities need chatty machines : Deutsche Telekom shares its vision
There are only a handful of companies that come to mind when you think of smart cities. Established tech firms like IBM and General Electric have been eagerly promoting intelligent solutions for urban improvement, where machine population encroaches steadily on human residents. Getting these machines to communicate better with each other, as well as with ...
