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HP earnings: top 3 takeaways
Hewlett-Packard continues to be rocked by a flood-induced hard drive shortage; its go-to printing business is sputtering; the company as a whole continues to spend too much on too many products; and it...
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Dropbox: disruptor or flash-in-the-pan?
As Dropbox launches a new photo upload capability to make it easier to move digital photos from smartphones to the cloud, the debate as to whether Dropbox itself is the next big disruptor or just a...
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$850 for everyone? What happens next in the AT&T throttling case
An out-of-work truck driver from California made headlines on Friday when he turned the tables on AT&T, and stuck it to the phone giant in small claims court over his data plan... $850 for...
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3 fascinating (and pretty) portraits of personal life through data
For most people, the only data they'll ever really see about themselves are the pretty charts generated by applications like Mint or Jawbone. Some people take their personal data a little more...
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Mobile data a fascinating and scary opportunity
We're walking around with sensors in our pockets: those of us carrying smartphones, anyway. As said at Structure:Data, there are huge opportunities for companies to improve existing services and create...
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UnboundID Gets $12.5M to seek the Holy Grail of online ID
UnboundID raised $12.5 million to build software that allows people and businesses to manage and trade on their identity across professional and social networks in a simple way. In the binary world of...
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The cloud will cost you, but you’ll be happy to pay
Today, conventional wisdom suggests that cloud computing will bring increased efficiency to computing markets, which will then decrease costs. Cloud computing will allow organizations to cut IT...
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Why we owe it all to Alan Turing
One hundred years after he was born, the pioneering work of brilliant British polymath Alan Turing is as important as ever -- so important, in fact, that his thinking about how computers work is still...
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How to deal with cloud failure: Live, learn, fix, repeat
Like it or not, sweeping software bugs are just part and parcel with operating the largest computing systems the world has ever seen. Although Amazon is already fixing the problems that caused its...
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Norway has more bandwidth than all of Africa & other broadband gaps
Broadband use in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are growing incredibly quickly, but developed nations are still the heaviest broadband users. This research shouldn't come as any big surprise...
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Vicarious gets $15M to search for the key to artificial intelligence
Founders Fund and Dustin Moskovitz's Good Ventures have led a $15 million round in a company that is trying to replicate the intelligence of the human brain in software. Vicarious' goal is to help...
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The great challenge—and opportunity—of cloud: interoperability
Cloud computing and distributed applications are part of a greater shift to building out an ecosystem with inter-dependent parts. This may seem obvious, but what is less obvious is how the industry...
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Qualcomm’s QPrize shows its philosophy on the mobile world
MightyText won Qualcomm's QPrize event yesterday, but the IP texting app and the nine other finalists are also a microcosm of Qualcomm's views about what mobility can bring to computing and how to...
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Embrace the light! Researchers built all-optical device for faster broadband
Our computer networks and broadband connections are reliant on both light and electronics, but a breakthrough at the University of Minnesota might help take the electrons out of the equation. A new...
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Doctor’s dream: Jason Hoffman’s quest to build the new web machine
Jason Hoffman is familiar to many in the computing industry as the CTO of Joyent and a leader of the movement to build distributed systems. But before that, he was a doctor who helped his mom beat...
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Why the “stupid network” isn’t our destiny after all
In the early days of the web, David Isenberg famously predicted the rise of a so-called stupid network with smart endpoints. Joe Weinman, of Telx, argues that instead the network has become...
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How the mobile-first world will transform the data center
Look for a new generation of mobile-centric data centers to arise over the next three years, with chips, servers, and power architectures customized for mobile workloads. How the mobile-first world...
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How new devices, networks, and consumer habits will change the web experience
Mobilizing web design is a catch-22; adjusting to design challenges is costly, but not adjusting is equally costly, because a poor mobile web experience results in a loss of revenue. How new devices,...
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What developers should know when choosing mobile backend as a service
A new service delivery model of the cloud, called mobile backend as a service, fills the gap that exists in the current cloud delivery models and offers a higher level of abstraction than platform as a...
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How proximity-based mobile social networking will disrupt the mobile market
Astute mobile application vendors are bringing to market applications that help mobile users connect and interact with people in close proximity. We expect this emerging market to grow to $1.9 billion...
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