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Since Dell Technologies Inc. and EMC Corp. stacked their bulky portfolios together to officially become Dell EMC last year, the newly merged company has sold the notion that bigger is better. In its end-to-end marketing message, however, a strategy for rapidly growing …
Marvel’s Stan Lee reimagines YouTuber as multimedia comic character
YouTube has given all kinds of folks a platform to unleash their voices on an unsuspecting public. Some users have managed to parlay their likes and subscribers into internet stardom. Twenty-four-year-old singer Rain Paris’ (pictured) uploads caught the eye of former Marvel Comics …
Taking your app global? Go Android or go home, says Uber engineer
A lot of busy mobile application developers prefer Apple’s iOS operating system, because they can build software in less time and with fewer lines of code than they can with rival Google’s Android OS. But with 86 percent of the world’s smartphones running Android, …
Can your outfit mix a martini? Couture gets techy with wearable robotics
Think a Fitbit fitness device is the cutting edge of wearable technology? Try a self-defending or cocktail-making dress on for size. “These new technologies on the body — they can really listen to us,” said Anouk Wipprecht (pictured), a Dutch FashionTech designer who fused …
Engineering students play doctor to build better healthcare robotics
Don’t judge a man before walking a mile in his moccasins. Also, don’t design healthcare robotics technology before watching live surgeries and following patients in an intensive learning program. The Accessibility, Rehabilitation and Movement Science, or ARMS, traineeship program from Georgia Institute of Technology and …
All about the interface: Data, AI blur the enterprise-consumer tech line
The notion that consumer tech must require almost zero brain cells to use but enterprise information technology can afford to be mindbogglingly complex is changing. Customers are demanding easy, intuitive applications at home and at work, and developers are responding. “I don’t believe …
By customer demand, NetApp reinvents itself for multicloud data management
When does a hot-ticket company in a cooling market jump on the bandwagon of a new technology? NetApp Inc. is transforming its healthy storage business into data management for multicloud computing environments. Tuning out media hype and Wall Street analysts, the company …
Work dumber, not harder: Developers can be ‘stupid productive’ with serverless
The trend away from physical data centers toward cloud and software as a service allows businesses to get out of plumbing and work smarter, not harder. Or, in the case of serverless computing and functions as a service, the phrase should be “work …
See-through serverless computing helps IT, business people see eye to eye
Cloud infrastructure freed businesses from on-premises servers, a concept further simplified with containers’ virtualized method for packaging and distributing software applications. Now serverless computing is the logical next step to total infrastructure freedom — and breaking the information technology-business barrier, according to Mark Nunnikhoven (pictured), vice president of …
How techies, users navigate rapidly evolving serverless community
Even as many companies are still getting the hang of containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), vendors touting newfangled serverless computing jostle for attention. Luckily, even developers clueless about serverless can start building applications with it thanks to its bustling …