Intel’s profits fell 6 percent as the company’s PC business continued to struggle. But Intel’s revenues mildly exceeded its own expectations as the datacenter business continued to report strong results. The one obvious black mark on the company’s third-quarter earnings were sales of its Atom processors into tablets. Intel sold 8 million tablet chips, a 39 percent drop compared to a year ago. Overall, Intel reported net income of $3.1 billion on revenue of $14.5 billion, which represented a 6 percent drop in profits against flat revenues a year ago. Analysts expected revenue of $14.2 billion and and 59 cents per share, which Intel exceeded.
Oracle's aggressive licensing practices have gained it considerable notoriety over the years, and on Tuesday, a Texas law firm specializing in technology issued a warning urging enterprises to beware. "Oracle software licensing is full of traps," wrote Christopher Barnett, an associate with Scott & Scott LLP, in a Of particular note is Oracle's License Management Services compliance arm, whose zeal for audits and "undeserved windfalls" is "nearly legendary," Barnett said.
The nifty accessory makes it possible for the Kevo to be controlled and monitored from the cloud.
LG might be prepping its own contender to battle Google and Samsung in the mobile payments space. According to The company has applied to trademark the G Pay name in South Korea and the U.S., which indicate there should be some type of global launch for the service.
After announcing its first The The main attraction is Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, which uses a dedicated chip to keep each frame in line with the refresh rate of the display, in conjunction with Nvidia graphics cards. This helps avoid the stuttering and tearing that can occur when the display and frame rate fall out of sync. While we’ve seen G-Sync monitors before, Acer claims it’s the first in the United States to combine the technology with a curved display.
Sometimes you run across a tip that's just so awesome you must share it with the world as soon as possible. The other day, I came across a Chrome extension (via One of the great things about Chrome is that it allows you to mute any tab with a single click—
Twitter will lay off up to one in 12 employees as it streamlines its product roadmap, new CEO Jack Dorsey told his workforce on Tuesday morning. The company will in future focus "on the experiences which will have the greatest impact," he wrote in a letter to staff. In Dorsey's Although
Readers of the popular German-language tabloid Bild are finding out it’s The new policy does not affect anti-tracking extensions such as NoScript and Privacy Badger even though they effectively accomplish the same thing as an ad blocker.
SAP has taken the wraps off of Due in the fourth quarter, the technology is built natively on SAP's Hana Cloud Platform, which has the company's Hana in-memory database at its core. SAP will deliver the service in a scalable, multitenant environment, it said, allowing customers to unify business intelligence, planning, budgeting and predictive capabilities in a single cloud service. The goal is to allow business users to sample, wrangle, combine and blend any data -- big or small, on-premises and in the cloud -- using an intuitive user interface. Line-of-business analysts will be able to build connected planning models, analyze data and collaborate in context to improve business performance, the company said.
Nvidia proved long ago that its cloud PC gaming service was a cut above others. Even in a Not much has changed with the launch of GeForce Now, the paid service that has sprung from those early previews. Cloud gaming can still be a surprisingly enjoyable experience, only now you must pay $8 per month for the privilege, or purchase from a small library of standalone games for sale.
VMware is taking Michigan to Europe as it works to make networking as secure in the hybrid cloud as it can be in a private datacenter. At its VMworld Europe conference, it unveiled new features and tools to make it easier to roll applications out to its unified hybrid cloud platform, expanding the range of management functions available on its public cloud, vCloud Air, which can be linked with private clouds using vSphere. The company also previewed a new technology, Project Michigan, that can deploy a secure enterprise gateway across vCloud Air offerings, including Disaster Recovery and Dedicated Cloud services. It will support VM migration and network and policy extension with low downtime through Hybrid Cloud Manager. It can be used to spin up thousands of virtual machines with secure connectivity on demand, it said.
Adobe is making it easier to work with PDF files stored in the cloud, thanks to a new partnership with Dropbox that connects users of the Acrobat PDF editing and viewing products with documents stored in the cloud storage firm's online locker. Starting Tuesday, users will be able to link their Dropbox accounts with Adobe's Acrobat Reader and Acrobat DC desktop apps, and then edit any PDFs they have stored in Dropbox's cloud from Acrobat, without having to go digging for the right file. On the desktop, that doesn't seem like much of a bonus, since it's already possible to open files from a Dropbox folder that's stored on a user's computer with those apps. However, the companies will soon be rolling out an integration for iOS so mobile users who would otherwise have to flip between different apps in order to open their files won't need to.
Microsoft has created a $43 billion business, a potential Apple-and-OEM-esque company-within-a-company that could be used to take up the slack if some of its computer-making partners falter—or much less likely, go independent if Redmond decided to spin off into parts. With last month’s
Microsoft today shipped the latest Windows 10 preview to its Insider testers, with improvements to the Cortana assistant and the default Edge browser, and betas of the “universal” Skype apps for messaging, audio calling and video conferencing. Monday’s build, tagged as Build 10565 also made significant changes to how Windows 10 is
Microsoft promised a lot of things in the run-up to the launch of Windows 10 and delivered many of them (especially for consumers) in time for the operating system’s release on July 29. Now, it seems that Skype integration with the new OS will be coming soon, thanks to apps Microsoft is trying out on early adopters who get beta builds of Windows 10. The company
Facebook updated its iOS app for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, and we also found great iOS updates for Day One and TripAdvisor.
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