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Adobe’s Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You
Adobe’s Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You (via slashdot) Adobe plans on focusing the bulk of its software-development efforts on its Creative Cloud offering, with no plans to further update its “boxed” Creative Suite products. The move isn’t surprising, considering the tech industry’s general movement toward the cloud over the past few years; nonetheless… continue…
Gartner: SSDs Simply Can’t Replace Hard Drives
Gartner: SSDs Simply Can’t Replace Hard Drives (via slashdot) Hard-drive manufacturers can breathe a sigh of relief—solid-state disks (SSDs) won’t replace their “traditional” product lines anytime soon, according to a new Gartner report. Given the enormity of future capacity needs, it will be impossible for CIOs and IT managers to completely replace hard…
Oracle Invests in Ingestible Sensors
Oracle Invests in Ingestible Sensors (via slashdot) Oracle has made a “strategic minority investment” in digital-health firm Proteus, which builds ingestible sensors. In theory, ingestible sensors could play a key role in the expanding field of medical-data analytics, in which researchers and other healthcare experts use information gathered from… continue…
Windows RT Failing to Capture Tablet Market
Windows RT Failing to Capture Tablet Market (via slashdot) Microsoft’s idea for Windows RT must have seemed like a winner on paper: craft a version of Windows for mobile devices built on the ARM chip architecture (which powers a sizable portion of tablets and smartphones on the market), send the resulting products into the ring against Apple and various…
Netgear Contest Pushes Connected Appliance Apps
Netgear’s launched an app-development contest meant to encourage developers to create solutions for connected homes and businesses, and to join its Smart Network Developer Program. The winning developer will get $10,000, but of course all participants will be encouraged to market their apps through the Netgear genie+ marketplace. The company wants to offer consumers more options for interacting with connected devices, like refrigerators and other appliances, which are increasingly seen as potential development platforms. Cedar Milazzo, the company’s vice president… continue…
BlackBerry 10 API: Worth Your Development Time?
BlackBerry 10 API: Worth Your Development Time? (via slashdot) Remember BlackBerry? For most of us, the company (known for years as Research In Motion) really is just a memory. Back in 2005, it seemed as if every manager and business executive had a BlackBerry device; nowadays, Apple’s iPhone and Google Android basically split the mobile-device market between… continue…
BlackBerry CEO Heins: Tablet Market is Kaput
BlackBerry CEO Heins: Tablet Market is Kaput (via slashdot) BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins believes that tablets will be dead within the next five years. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” he told an interviewer at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles, according to Bloomberg. “Maybe a big screen in… continue…
Mandatory Data Breach Reporting Appears Dead
Mandatory Data Breach Reporting Appears Dead (via slashdot) A plan by the Obama Administration to set up a framework for exchanging cybersecurity information could be dead—at least as a mandatory requirement. But that doesn’t mean such an information-sharing framework is off the table. The Washington Post reported April 26 that, while a national plan that… continue…
Microsoft Plans a Hollow Start Button for Windows 8
Microsoft will restore the Start button to Windows 8, though it won’t lead to a Start menu as previous versions did. Instead, the button, which will look like Windows 7’s version, will take users to the Windows 8 Start screen, according to the Verge. At ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley says the button supposedly wasn’t originally part of the Windows build, but is indeed looking more likely. Here’s the thing: A Start button that doesn’t include a menu is disingenuous. It… continue…
Even as iPad Sales Increase, Apple Loses Ground in Tablet Market
Even as iPad Sales Increase, Apple Loses Ground in Tablet Market (via slashdot) As if Apple didn’t have enough concerns at the moment, new data from Strategy Analytics suggests that the company’s lead in tablets is shrinking. According to the research firm, Apple iOS fell from 63.1 percent of the tablet market in the first quarter of 2012 to 48.2 percent in the first quarter… continue…
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