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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service is the digital library we’ve always wanted (updated) July 18, 2014 at 11:39 am
At long last, information has finally surfaced regarding the hotly awaited, all-you-can read e-book service from Amazon. Dubbed “Kindle Unlimited,” this service will supposedly offer over 600,000 e-books and thousands of audiobooks for $10 per month.
US government asserts unilateral right to access private data, even if it’s stored outside the US July 15, 2014 at 8:47 am
The US government is attempting to pry data out of Microsoft regarding a foreign national by claiming that it has a unilateral right to access information because Microsoft is a US company. Will such tactics fly in the post-Snowden era?
Microsoft wants to be part of Judgment Day, too: Introducing the Project Adam artificial intelligence July 15, 2014 at 7:50 am
Microsoft has unveiled Project Adam, its new artificial intelligence that it claims is 50 times faster than comparable state-of-the-art systems deployed by the likes of Google. Adam can look at an image of almost anything and tell you exactly what it is; it can even differentiate between a Pembroke and Cardigan corgi. Notably, while similar AIs are moving to massively parallel GPU computing, Adam uses plain old CPUs in Microsoft’s Azure cloud — an impressive feat that is only possible thanks to Microsoft’s use of lock-free Hogwild! computing.
Amazon launches cut-price Dropbox competitor Zocalo, takes a page from Microsoft’s monopolistic playbook July 11, 2014 at 8:06 am
Amazon, after years of letting Dropbox ride its cloud storage coattails, is finally launching its own cloud storage and sharing service: Zocalo. Priced at just $5 per month for 200GB of storage, the oddly named Zocalo is about a third of the price of Dropbox. With the ability to annotate documents and integrate with your IT dept’s corporate directory, Zocalo is also going after Google Drive/Docs. This approach of imitating an existing product, but then attempting to do it bigger and better, is straight out of Microsoft’s 1990s heyday playbook. (And both Bezos and Gates live in Seattle, hmm…)
Microsoft shakes things up yet again, will now focus on mobile and cloud – not devices and services July 10, 2014 at 1:32 pm
Microsoft’s new CEO, just 12 months after Steve Ballmer declared that Microsoft was a “devices and services” company, is changing the behemoth’s course yet again. Starting from fiscal year (FY) 2015 — i.e. today — Microsoft is now all about mobile and cloud. In a letter that was emailed to Microsoft employees today, Nadella gushes forth with incredibly bold statements that try to define what he wants the company to be, and attempts to outline the extraordinary measures that must now be undertaken to actually get the company there.
10Gbps over a copper telephone line: A new world record set by Bell Labs July 9, 2014 at 1:21 pm
The telecommunications masters at Bell Labs have managed to deliver a world record connection speed of 10Gbps (10,000Mbps) over copper wires. Dubbed XG.fast, the new technology could be used to massively extend the life of existing copper wireline networks, offering telecom companies an alternative to laying costly fiber-optic networks to billions of homes that already have a telephone line — but more importantly, it might mean you finally get a serious upgrade from your ~10Mbps ADSL or ~50Mbps VDSL connection.
Qualcomm to boost wireless performance to gigabit levels with Wilocity acquisition July 2, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Qualcomm has announced its imminent acquisition of Wilocity, a WiFi developer specializing in the 60GHz band. Wilocity promises it can deliver up to 7Gbps of bandwidth — but it comes with some costs.
Report: Comcast’s public Xfinity WiFi program actually costs you money July 1, 2014 at 7:31 am
Comcast’s new Xfinity app doesn’t just throw a public WiFi network around your router on a separate channel. it also increases the cost of operating and owning the device itself.
Anger mounts over Facebook’s news feed experiment, company denies wrongdoing June 30, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Facebook’s admission that it manipulated news feeds to measure how it would impact user response is kicking up a great deal of controversy — and the company doesn’t seem to understand the problem.
Will 60fps YouTube videos force game developers to prioritize frame rate? June 27, 2014 at 4:39 pm
This week, Google announced that 48fps and 60fps video playback will be available on YouTube sometime in the next few months. The transition to higher frame rates has been painfully slow across the board, but this move from the YouTube team could force game devs and Hollywood to focus on pumping out more frames per second.
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