Amazon counters Google with its own cloud price cuts
The price war among major cloud providers continues, with Amazon Web Services announcing Wednesday that it is lowering the prices of a number of its cloud services, one day after Google slashed prices. Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy downplayed any idea that the price cuts were competitive in nature, however.
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Amazon's WorkSpaces becomes generally available
Amazon Web Services' hosted virtual desktops have become generally available, priced from $35, but the company and its competitors have a lot of hurdles to overcome before this sort of technology is widely used by businesses. The desktop-as-a-service market has become interesting. Before Amazon's Wednesday announcement on its WorkSpaces service, VMware earlier this month launched its Horizon DaaS, based on the company's acquisition of Desktone.
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Infor goes all-in with Amazon Web Services for cloud ERP
Infor is betting big on Amazon Web Services for its cloud ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software strategy, with plans to begin offering a series of product suites on the company's IaaS (infrastructure as a service). Dubbed CloudSuite, the software packages will focus on a variety of specific industries, beginning with automotive, aerospace and defense, and hospitality. Later this year, Infor plans to launch a more general-purpose cloud ERP suite on AWS, called CloudSuite Corporate. This offering will include modules for core finance and human resources.
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Mozilla unveils debugger that works like a VCR
Debugging is nobody's favorite part of programming, and the larger and more complex the app, the more difficult the debug job. Worse, some bugs can't seem to be reproduced in a predictable way, but buzz out often enough to be a disaster.
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Nvidia changes road map for graphics and mobile chips
Nvidia on Tuesday announced a new mobile and graphics processor road map, ripping up chip plans it announced one year ago. Nvidia added a new graphics processor called Pascal, which is a "processor that's essentially a supercomputer," said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, during a keynote on Tuesday at the company's GPU Technology Conference, which was webcast from San Jose, California.
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Zuckerberg sees virtual reality as next major computing platform
Mark Zuckerberg has seen the future, and it's inside a virtual-reality headset. Facebook's $2 billion deal to buy Oculus VR, announced on Tuesday, is about a lot more than gaming. The social network's founder and CEO sees virtual reality as one of -- if not the -- next major computing platform, he said, one that will be a vehicle for communication, shopping, education, and more.
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Intel acquires health band maker Basis Science
In another sign of the mainstream growth of wearable devices, Intel has acquired high-end health tracker maker Basis Science. The San Francisco-based startup produces the Basis band, billed as an advanced health-tracking wristband.
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Cyber security expert: Internet of things is 'scary as hell'
The terms "Internet of things" (IoT) and "connected home" are two of the trendiest buzzwords in the technology world today. And while both clearly offer very real potential, they also introduce their own share of risk, particularly if they're not approached with caution, according to Jerry Irvine, an owner and CIO of IT outsourcing services firm, Prescient Solutions.
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Security vendor Trustwave named in Target data breach suit
Security vendor Trustwave was accused in a class-action suit of failing to detect the attack that led to Target's data breach, one of the largest on record. Target, which is also named as a defendant, outsourced its data security obligations to Trustwave, which "failed to live up to its promises or to meet industry standards," alleged the suit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Facebook Q&A: Hack brings static typing to PHP world
The Hack language, which brings static typing to the dynamically typed PHP realm, recently was releas
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Facebook buying Oculus VR virtual-reality company for $2 billion
Facebook has reached a surprise deal to buy Oculus VR, developer of the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, for about US$2 billion, the social network said Tuesday. The announcement puts Facebook into one of the most-talked-about new markets this year. Sony has also made moves into virtual reality lately, as has Google with its Project Tango.
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