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Chrome’s almost no-show at CES, and is 2GB too little?
It’s CES time again, and our intrepid reporter, Kevin Tofel, braved the big crowds and buffets so you don’t have to. Sadly, though, there was little Chrome news out of the show — a new Toshiba...
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The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS
In 1976, famed computer architect Seymour Cray released one of the most successful supercomputers ever made: the Cray-1, a stylish 5.5-ton C-shaped tower that was quickly embraced by laboratories all...
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When it comes to new markets, one size does not fit all
The 1958 novel The Ugly American was a fictionalized study of American jingoism in action. Its Americans didn’t embrace other cultures or try to understand them and then offer better solutions. Rather,...
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Orchestrate launches with a database API for the new enterprise stack
The enterprise software stack is changing. What used to be a monolithic, integrated platform is slowly breaking up into a variety of services delivered by companies that range from Salefsforce.com to...
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The Gigaom Show: Comcast/TWC, the trials of Sprint’s Dan Hesse, and Bitcoin’s...
On this week’s episode of The Gigaom Show, we tackle one of the biggest stories we’ve seen in months: Comcast’s $44 billion bid for Time Warner Cable. As you might expect, we have some strong feelings...
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Solving the unsolvable: A quantum boost for supercomputing
Quantum computing and high-performance computing (HPC) may seem like competitive approaches to solving complex problems, as they’re both designed to perform calculations at unmatched speeds, but they...
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What bitcoin needs next: education and an ecosystem, says Marc Andreessen
Since its introduction in 2009, bitcoin’s had a bumpy ride — and that should come as no surprise. According to Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, ongoing press controversies over bitcoin amount to...
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Facebook in 2020: What will the future hold?
If the past month’s activity is any indication, Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are planning an ambitious roadmap. Tuesday’s acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion shows that the company wants to...
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Mobile made frenemies out of everyone and the internet of things will make it...
Executives from startups to giants like GM and Progressive are trying to figure out how to connect products, gather data and then turn that data into services that consumers will pay for, or business...
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How slime mold can design transportation networks and maybe even transform...
The yellow blobs of slime mold normally grow in dark forests, not on computer chips or on gelatinous squares shaped like the United States. But through his research, University of the West of England...
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Arm yourself: The API wars are coming
The arms merchants of the cloud and a new wave of developers armed with APIs are going to cause massive technology disruption. Arm yourself: The API wars are coming originally published by Gigaom, ©...
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The sorry state of server utilization and the impending post-hypervisor era
Server virtualization was supposed to make utilization rates go up. But utilization is still low and solutions to solve that will change the way the data center operates. The sorry state of server...
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Gamer fan fave Valve Software joins Linux Foundation
Valve Software has been leaning toward Linux for some time. By joining the Linux Foundation it will contribute tools and expertise to make the open source OS more gamer friendly. Gamer fan fave Valve...
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Ubuntu to add torrent search to Unity desktop
Ubuntu will add a new default scope set for Unity to allow users to conduct BitTorrent searches directly from the desktop, according to TorrentFreak. The feature, developed by Ubuntu software developer...
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Why do U.S. ISPs want to charge for peering? Peering makes the internet...
The practice of network peering is gaining ground, which is good news for everyone on the web except for those companies providing transit. Will that continue? Why do U.S. ISPs want to charge for...
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IBM’s SyNAPSE chip moves even closer to brain-like computing
Lead researcher Dharmendra Modha described the chip as "a supercomputer the size of a stamp, the weight of a feather." IBM’s SyNAPSE chip moves even closer to brain-like computing originally published...
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Check out IBM’s proposal for an internet of things architecture using...
Combine Bitcoin's block chain technology, BitTorrent and a secure messaging protocol called telehash and you get a distributed infrastructure that some IBM researchers think would be ideal for the...
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Oracle launches upgraded cloud platform with its database and Java available...
While Oracle has a cloud platform that it’s been trying to spread to the masses for a few years, the biggest deal regarding the new cloud upgrade is supposedly the ability for people to use Oracle’s...
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In China, the internet of things is a social phenomenon
China is an ardent adopter of technology trends and its enthusiasm for the internet of things is no exception. In China, the internet of things is a social phenomenon originally published by Gigaom, ©...
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Kano is an easy-to-use $150 computer for kids and parents to explore...
The $150 Kano computer that kids (or anyone else) can build themselves and then use to learn to code, is now available to anyone. My 8-year-old daughter and I took one for a spin. Kano is an...
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OpenStack-friendly Blue Box lands $10M to push its private cloud
Blue Box, the Seattle-based startup that in September showcased an expandable private cloud built on top of OpenStack, has brought in a $10 million series B funding round. The startup did not disclose...
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It’s now easier to pay your bills on the Google Cloud
Google’s made it easier for developers to pay their bills on the Google Cloud Platform, the search giant said today. Coders can now use a single billing account to pay for all of their projects without...
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ThoughtSpot’s data analytics hardware is now available to the public
Big data startup ThoughtSpot said Tuesday that its core product, the ThoughtSpot Relational Search Appliance, is now available to the general public. ThoughtSpot wants to bring a Google-like search...
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Joyent gets $15M in funding and tries to jump on the container bandwagon
Joyent wants the world to know that it has been using containers within its own cloud infrastructure for roughly a decade and is hoping to attract new customers with the fact. Joyent gets $15M in...
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The target audience for Google Container Engine is wondering about security...
Google wants to show the enterprise world that it can trust it when it comes to container technology. But if you want to give its new container engine a test run, you won't be able to use it on other...
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A milestone moment for Microsoft: .NET is now an open-source project
In what probably never would have happened under the first two CEOs to lead the historic software company, Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday that it is open sourcing the entire .NET framework, a...
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IBM to build two supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy
IBM said today that it will develop two new supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy that are based on IBM’s new Power servers and will contain NVIDIA GPU accelerators and Mellanox networking...
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Facebook shows the promise of SDN with new networking tech
Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility...
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Microsoft puts Docker on Windows clients
Microsoft said today that users can now run Docker inside a Windows machine and manage Linux-based containers using the new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows. The news follows up on the recent...
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Qualcomm aims to build server chips that power the data center
Qualcomm is moving beyond mobile chips and will target the data center market with new server-chips, according to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. Mollenkopf detailed the mobile chip-maker’s plans during...
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Microsoft plays nice with Docker while Azure takes a hit
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news. Microsoft plays...
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Avi Networks, fresh with $33M, aims to virtualize the network
Networking startup Avi Networks is ready to explain just how it virtualizes networking gear so that enterprises don’t have to rely on legacy equipment. The startup is also announcing that it has raised...
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Microsoft open sources cloud framework that powers Halo
Microsoft is continuing its open-source push, this time announcing that it will open source its Project Orleans cloud computing web framework. The framework has supposedly been “used extensively” in...
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Rackspace joins the OpenPower Foundation
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 a run...
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Reports: US to confirm North Korea behind the Sony hack
After much speculation, the U.S. government will reportedly confirm soon, as early as Thursday, that North Korea was responsible for the massive hack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to...
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It’s all Docker, containers and the cloud on the Structure Show
It’s safe to say that Docker has had a momentous year with the container-management startup gaining a lot of developer interest and scoring a lot of support from big tech companies like Amazon, Google,...
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How NASA launched its web infrastructure into the cloud
Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative...
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Meteor wants to be the warp drive for building real-time apps
For most organizations, building a modern-day cloud application that rivals something as clean and fast as Uber or Facebook is, obviously, not an easy-to-do task. The art of crafting a responsive app...
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US weather agency to boost supercomputers to 2.5 petaflops each
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to upgrade the performance of its two supercomputers with a roughly tenfold increase of capacity by October 2015, the agency said...
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Raspberry Pi gets 6x the power, 2x the memory and still costs $35
Makers, academics and generally anyone who likes to play with computers: get ready for some awesomesauce. Raspberry Pis, the tiny Linux computers that currently sell for $35 are getting a makeover that...
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SmartThings hires ex-Googler to manage dev platform
SmartThings, Samsung’s hope for a unified smart home platform, has hired Dora Hsu, a former Google executive, as chief platform officer to lead its developer platform. Hsu, who was formerly the senior...
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Security incubator with ties to Israeli military forms with $18M
A new Israeli-based cyber-security incubator called Team8 plans to announce its launch on Tuesday and is banking that its ties to the Israeli military will give its startups a competitive edge in the...
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How Twitter processes tons of mobile application data each day
It’s only been seven months since Twitter released its Answers tool, which was designed to provide users with mobile application analytics. But since that time, Twitter now sees roughly five billion...
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Pinterest is experimenting with MemSQL for real-time data analytics
Pinterest shed more light on how the social scrapbook and visual discovery service analyzes data in real time, it said in a blog post on Wednesday, also revealing details about how it’s exploring a...
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MIT researchers claim they have a way to make faster chips
A team of MIT researchers have discovered a possible way to make multicore chips a whole lot faster than they currently are, according to a recently published research paper. The researchers’ work...
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eBay’s new Pulsar framework will analyze your data in real time
eBay has a new open-source, real-time analytics and stream-processing framework called Pulsar that the company claims is in production and is available for others to download, according to an eBay blog...
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Coolan lets companies pool and analyze hardware data
A common dilemma facing many companies that have a ton of gear in their data centers is having to figure out which hardware appliance is causing bottlenecks that may cause downtime and customer...
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Google’s new service will ease real-time communications for applications
Google has a new real-time messaging system available in beta for its cloud service called Google Cloud Pub/Sub, the company said on Wednesday in a blog post. The system in theory will enable...
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Watch Hilary Mason discredit the cult of the algorithm
Want to see Hilary Mason, the CEO and founder at Fast Forward Labs, get fired up? Tell her about your new connected product and its machine learning algorithm that will help it anticipate your needs...
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Red Hat’s new operating system will power up your containers
Open-source software giant Red Hat said on Thursday that its new operating system custom made to power Linux containers is now available to download. Red Hat has been a big proponent of Docker and its...
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