Canonical has revealed what I reckon is its biggest announcement in years: Ubuntu is about to invade the internet of things with a minimal version of the Linux distribution that it… Read more »
Facebook considered investing in Chinese mobile conglomerate Xiaomi, according to sources that dished to Reuters. The deal didn’t pan out for a range of reasons, from political concerns to investment conflicts, but could… Read more »
Samsung’s B.K. Yoon, the president of its Consumer Electronics group, gave an inspiring call to openness for the internet of things in a keynote speech at International CES on Monday night… Read more »
Lenovo has refreshed much of its ThinkPad range, including ultrabooks such as the X1 Carbon and the X250 (replacing the X240), with two significant changes: the addition of Intel’s Broadwell fifth-generation… Read more »
Rackspace is now an official member of the OpenPower Foundation, the IBM-created organization whose job is to help oversee IBM’s open-source chips; these chips are posed to give Intel’s x86 chips… Read more »
With phones and tablets usurping some activities from traditional computers, Intel is changing with the times. A new “Client Computing” group will combine the chip business for PCs, smartphones and tablets. Read more »
A Silicon Valley startup called Keyssa has been shopping a new kind of wireless technology that it claims can transfer an HD movie between devices in mere seconds. Read more »
The Internet of Things is a remarkably fragmented world where no single operating system or technology will dominate for the foreseeable future. So big opportunities exist for developers that can help… Read more »
The virtual merger of Chrome and Android continues with apps from both platforms running on the other. Some of this effort is official and in beta but since both Chromium and… Read more »
Anyone with aging parents or grandparents knows monitoring their well-being is a prime concern. New technologies make that easier, but there’s a fine line between maintaining peace of mind and stalking. Read more »