- Google Acquires Smart Glass Maker North, With Focus On Ambient Computing
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Ambient computing -- computers interacting with humans in real-world environments -- isn't new. Google on Tuesday announced it has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and maker of ...
- Quicken Loans, General Motors, Amazon, Donate Computers To Disadvantaged Children
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Sunday, April 26, 2020
"Digital access has evolved from a nicety to a necessity -- and we cannot afford to let our children down," according to Skillman Foundation. ...
- Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft Bring Supercomputing Resources To White House For COVID-19 Research
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 23, 2020
The 16 systems will bring together more than 330 petaflops, 775,000 CPU cores, 34,000 GPUs, and more to help researchers better understand COVID-19, its treatments and potential cures. ...
- Trillion Dollar Club: How Much Profit Per Employee
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 23, 2020
HowMuch.net found that Apple leads in terms of profits, making $435,000 per employee, with Google at No. 2 with $269,000 per employee on $30.7 billion in profit and 114,000 employ ...
- Email Management App Extended To Macs
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Edison Mail's app allows consumers to block unwanted emails from advertisers. It had been available for iOS and Android. ...
- Apple Will Keep Mac Pro Manufacturing In Austin After Tariff Relief
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Apple had previously announced it planned to move Mac Pro manufacturing to China. ...
- 2-In-1s Shaking Up PC Market
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, September 11, 2019
While sales of personal computing devices including tablets are expected to decline, 2-in-1 devices -- laptops or tablets with detachable keyboards -- will grow. ...
- Vox Creative Creates 'Smartest Brain' Campaign, Intel Sponsors
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The winners were chosen for their efforts "using technology to empower community collaboration." ...
- Study: Kids Go Online Rather Than Ask Parents For Homework Help
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, August 1, 2019
In a global Lenovo study, 75% of parents say kids are more likely to look up information online than ask for help. ...
- 'Los Angeles Times' Switches Website To Home-Grown Publishing Tech
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, July 17, 2019
The newspaper no longer depend son the publishing technology of former owner Tribune Publishing. ...
- Alan Turing To Be On Next GBP50 Note
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, July 15, 2019
The Bank of England has announced that the next face on the GBP50 note will be code-breaker, and some might argue, the father of modern computing, Alan Turing. The BBC ...
- Amazon Spends Thousands In Grant Money Looking For Talent, Passion For Science
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 12, 2019
Amazon, along with a program that builds science and technology skills, on Friday announced robotics grants to 100 schools in underserved and underrepresented communities. The idea is to inspire kids ...
- Trial Begins As HP Sues Autonomy Founder For $5bn
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The UK's biggest anti-fraud trial got underway yesterday as Hewlett Packard took Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and its former CFO Sushovan Hussain to court for what is claims was a ...
- 'PCMag' Tracks Wireless Carriers' "Race To 5G"
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Monday, February 25, 2019
The impact of 5G is best understood by looking at how 3G and 4G "transformed society. 3G basically enabled widespread mobile web use. 4G introduced a host of applications that ...
- Apple's Q1 Hits $84B, Forecast Decline Blamed On iPhone Sales
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, January 29, 2019
On the bright side, Apple's active installed base of devices reached an all-time high of 1.4 billion in Q1, CEO pointed out. Total revenue from products reached nearly $11 bill ...
- Global PC Shipments Down 4.3% Y-O-Y
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, January 11, 2019
Gartner believes the sluggish sales are a product of political and economic uncertainties around the world, combined with an ongoing CPU shortage. ...
- Google Chrome To Offer Dark Mode Browsing For Windows 10
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 3, 2019
Google apps like Android Messages, YouTube, News, Maps and Contact all have a built-in native dark mode that turns the background a grayish black with light colored text and images ...
- Mac-Based Email Malware Now A Threat: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The Mac-based email appeared for the first time on WatchGuard's list of the most common types of malware. ...
- Global Tablet Shipments Down 9%, Apple Leads Market
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, November 5, 2018
The worldwide tablet market declined 9% last quarter, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation. The number of tablets shipped fell from 40 million to 36 million devices ...
- Apple Touts New Updated iPad And Mini, Boosts Prices, Too
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Wednesday, October 31, 2018
New iPad with all the add-ons costs a cool $2,356; completely tricked-out Mac Mini is upwards of $4,000. Ouch. ...
- Computer Sales DIp Slightly, Demand In U.S. For Laptops
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, October 11, 2018
The sales figures were better than analysts expected. Stateside, the market for personal computers enjoyed another growth quarter with a total of 17.2 million units shipped. ...
- Apple Updating MacBook Pros
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, July 12, 2018
Among other new features, Apple is boosting its MacBook Pros with faster, newer processors, The Verge reports. Of course, “The updates won’t fully address all of the concerns that have ...
- Lenovo Agrees To $7.3 Million Adware Settlement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 12, 2018
Lenovo will settle a class-action accusing it of shipping notebooks with adware that contained security flaws. ...
- Spectrum Games Console Project Closed Down
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, June 6, 2018
A British startup that was hoping to resurrect the Sinclair Spectrum as a games computer has been closed by the Indiegogo crowdfunding site it was raising funds on after it ...
- Inside the SeaWorld And HP Email Marketing Programs
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 25, 2018
One sells computers, the other vacation attractions. But both rely on email to engage customers. ...
- A New World Beyond Moore's Law
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Thursday, January 4, 2018
In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted an annual doubling of component density on an integrated circuit at minimum manufacturing costs. That prediction of ever-increasing computational ability held for an amazing 50 ...
- What New iMac Pro Means For Creatives, Developers
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 14, 2017
Ars Technica considers how the new iMac Pro could spell opportunities for creatives, software developers, and third-party applications. "It is a much more powerful machine, with CPU options up to ...
- Royal Society Urges Government To Close Digital Skills Gap At Schools
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, November 10, 2017
The Government is coming under pressure to help bridge the nation's digital skills gap. The Royal Society is reporting that only around half of schools offer a GCSE course in ...
- Mobile Rules -- All Day, Every Day
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, September 21, 2017
We are officially in a mobile-first world as mobile is shown to be the favoured device for Internet access all day long. ...
- Just 30% Of Computer Science Pupils Are Girls
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, August 25, 2017
If you are looking for a good news story about yesterday GCSE results, the BBC warns Computer Science will not prove a happy hunting ground. Just 30% of pupils who ...
