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Blockchain startup Tezos’ co-founder says its internal battle ‘stinks’
The wild world of initial coin offerings got a little wilder on Tuesday as the husband-and-wife team who founded blockchain startup Tezos appeared publicly for the first time since a behind-the-scenes battle over control of the nonprofit fundraising foundation erupted into the open last week. Speaking at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference in Las Vegas, ...
Long tail of cloud service providers starts in China
When Alibaba Group Chief Executive Officer and Founder Jack Ma decided to hold the first Computing Conference, the cloud technology event drew 120 people. This year 60,000 attendees participated, and the partner list included major names in the industry, including as Intel, Nvidia, Cisco and SAP. What a difference eight years makes. The public cloud ...
Intel’s FPGAs bring a software mindset to the cloud marketplace
Intel’s recent announcement that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration as a service feature in the Alibaba Cloud shines a spotlight on a changing landscape for the integrated circuit market. FPGAs let customers configure the chip after it leaves the factory, opening up a new realm where circuits can deliver ...
From fourth place to first: Will Alibaba really become the dominant force in cloud?
A Gartner Inc. report places Alibaba Cloud’s (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group), market position in fourth place, and the share (2.6 percent) does not even come within sniffing distance of Amazon (30.3 percent) and Microsoft Azure (13.8 percent). Even third place Google LLC has more than twice the share at 5.9 percent. Yet, one of ...
Intel’s partnership with Alibaba powers cloud solutions
When Intel Corp. announced last week that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration service for Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, it was yet another chapter in an evolving collaboration between the chip maker and China’s e-commerce powerhouse. The service is an important part of Alibaba’s cloud architecture, ...
Testing a new product? Try the gaming environment first
When Mary Min (pictured) started with her current company and wanted to test the strength of a new security solution in an application environment, she had plenty of options ranging from healthcare to finance to “internet of things.” But the experienced developer knew exactly where she wanted to go first: gaming. “People were a little puzzled, ...
AR opens new windows for ethnographers and technologists
Although technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality are considered to be in the earliest stages of consumer adoption, they offer significant potential to reshape brand marketing campaigns. AR on the mobile platform holds major promise as users embrace smartphone cameras, a key delivery vehicle for augmented reality content. The premise behind AR is discovery ...
Samsung well positioned for Android developers, says ReadWrite co-founder
When the Samsung Galaxy smartphone was first released in the middle of 2009, it marked the company’s initial step into the Android market. The Korean consumer giant has been all-in with Android ever since, and it has built a sizable developer community around the platform over the past eight years. Further evidence for the firm’s ...
NetApp focuses on helping enterprises leverage DevOps chops
In the previously siloed world of information technology infrastructure, systems administrators and developers generally came together only when they passed each other in the hallway. Not anymore. Organizations are increasingly under pressure to speed software deployment while managing the complexities of clouds, servers and virtual machines in a chaotic IT world. This has led to a ...
Nomiku teams up with Samsung for foolproof sous-vide cooking
We all know that refrigerators store food, but through enhancements recently introduced by Samsung Electronics America Inc., they can help cook meals as well. The Samsung Family Hub smart refrigerator is now being shipped with an app from the sous-vide circulator Nomiku downloaded inside. Tap the app on the smart fridge and receive cooking instructions ...
