BROWSING: Amazon

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is a better smartphone than previous versions in a few ways, but it is not a home run. The screen is bigger and better. Bixby, their new AI, which I’ve been waiting to try is...

Surprise! Ready or not, like it or not, Amazon is installing Alexa on your Kindle. Some like this. Others don’t. Many ask what gives Amazon permission to break trust with their customers? An author friend of mine told me what Amazon did to her...

Apple told Imagination Technologies it will no longer need the British company's intellectual property to create graphics processors, wiping out more than two-thirds of the chipmaker's market value overnight. "Apple has asserted that it has been working on a separate, independent graphics design in order...

Just like everyone else, I am an Amazon.com customer. Their service is practically always perfect and quick. I order something, and it arrives quickly and without effort. If I need to return something, that’s no problem either. Amazon is a company customers can count...

After the Galaxy Note 7 battery disaster several months ago, Samsung teased us with their upcoming AI services. Last week Samsung introduced Bixby, which is their new AI service. It is similar to Apple Siri, Google Now and Microsoft Cortana. It is on the...

Mojio's open connected car platform looks to expand in the U.S. and European markets. Vancouver-based Mojio, which sells an open connected car platform, raised $15 million in a funding round led by the Amazon Alexa Fund and Deutsche Telekom. Mojio claims its open...

Amazon Web Services also recently launched services in Canada. Amazon Web Services launched its first data center in the U.K., enabling local cloud storage for its 100,000 U.K.-based customers. AWS said it now manages three data center facilities in Europe, including...

Mobile operators need to look at reinventing their operations instead of content deals if they want to guarantee future success. AT&T wants to acquire Time Warner and Verizon Communications wants to buy Yahoo because they believe delivering news, sports...

Amazon Web Services set to include AT&T NetBond product in a move designed to increase security for SaaS providers Infor and Pegasystems. AT&T deepened its work with Amazon Web Services through the integration of its NetBond product with the AWS Direct Connect...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...

AT&T cloud business now includes support from Amazon Web Services and deeper integration with IBM targeting enterprise customers AT&T bolstered its cloud efforts, announcing deals with Amazon Web Services and IBM. The multiyear deal with AWS calls for the delivery of integrated solutions using each company’s...

New and evolving digital video models are set to change the market and require a new mindset to succeed Remember in recent years when technology disruption upended the music and publishing industries? A slightly different – yet potentially more seismic – upheaval is happening now...

A new European Commission-supported study details the expected costs and benefits of 5G deployment in the European Union’s 28 member states. The cost of 5G deployment in the European Union’s (EU) 28 member states could reach €56 billion ($63 billion) in 2020, according to a...

1. Verizon Wireless is under scrutiny after news reports out of Cleveland detailed cellphone bills that customers said were skyrocketing unexpectedly. The people claimed their cellphone usage patterns had not changed significantly, but their bills told a different story. Bills from Verizon Wireless reportedly showed...

Paramount tackles big data with analytics ATLANTA – Joe Churchill, VP of analytics at Paramount Pictures, and Chris Twogood, VP of product and services marketing at Teradata, co-hosted a panel titled Paramount's Journey into the Cloud at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta. Paramount is...

Paramount tackles big data with analytics Joe Churchill, vice president of analytics at Paramount Pictures, and Chris Twogood, vice president of product and services marketing at Teradata, co-hosted a panel titled Paramount's Journey into the Cloud at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Paramount...

Amazon said Alexa, Echo and the Echo Dot services are available in Germany and the United Kingdom German operator Deutsche Telekom (DT) confirmed its non-proprietary platform for connected homes Qivicom will be integrated with the Alexa app from Amazon. With this new service customers will soon...

In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 industrial IoT companies, excluding...

In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 industrial IoT companies, excluding...

Tech companies have been storing data and running programs on local hard drives for decades. But cloud computing, a less expensive, more scalable way of storing and analyzing data, has taken center stage in recent years. It is a key element providing the necessary platform...

Tech companies have been storing data and running programs on local hard drives for decades. But cloud computing, a less expensive, more scalable way of storing and analyzing data, has taken center stage in recent years. It is a key element providing the necessary platform...

Amazon’s ambitions will push delivery drones’ battery lives to the limit and maybe beyond Last week, Amazon announced a partnership with the U.K. government to explore how to enable the delivery of parcels by small drones. Crucially, the U.K. has agreed to let Amazon test “beyond...

Amazon’s ambitions will push delivery drones’ battery lives to the limit and maybe beyond Last week, Amazon announced a partnership with the UK Government to explore how to enable the delivery of parcels by small drones. Crucially, the UK has agreed to let Amazon test “beyond...