Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
Apple has updated the pricing information for iCloud in preparation for the release of iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite, which will include iCloud Drive, the new file sync-and-share solution… Read more »
If the GSMA’s predictions are correct, two-thirds of the nine billion non-M2M mobile connections in 2020 will be from smartphones, with the vast majority coming from emerging markets. Read more »
Cloudbees wants to be known as “the Enterprise Jenkins company” as it transitions its PaaS customers to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, Google App Engine, or elsewhere. Read more »
Microsoft Azure now provides a speech-recognition service for audio-visual content that indexes the files based on what’s actually said in them. This could automate the searchability, categorization and description of content… Read more »
The biggest question that public cloud providers must answer today is how to deploy PaaS as a major component of their cloud services. Multiple options exist. Read more »
You could make the case for CenturyLink buying Rackspace if you don’t mind that the buyer is riddled with the debt and prospects for the seller aren’t all that rosy. Read more »
APIs continue to increase well beyond most enterprises’ ability to effectively manage them, which has lead to a new set of standards around governance, planning, and best practices. Read more »
Intel’s new E5 v3 family of processors comes loaded with 18 cores per socket, DDR4 memory and software that can help orchestrate the allocation of resources in a data center. Read more »
Delve for Office 365 claims to find useful message threads, contacts and documents before you have to go searching for them. It’s not groundbreaking stuff, but it’s another sign that Microsoft… Read more »