Storage appliances see positive growth
Both factory revenue and unit shipment growth for security appliances rose in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12) compared to the previous quarter. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, worldwide factory...Google pilots TV White Spaces project
Google and its partners have today announced the launch of a TV White Spaces (TVWS) trial with 10 schools in the Cape Town area. White spaces are unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum. They offer the potential to improve Internet connectivity in the developing...17-year-old gets multi-million cheque
17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio has become an overnight multi-millionaire and one of Yahoo’s newest employees. UK student D’Aloisio has sold his news-reading app Summly to Yahoo for an estimated $30-million. The algorithmic app takes articles and shortens them to be read...2013 sees dawn of the smart car
Cars are becoming smarter, with apps now embedded in vehicles which recognise their owners’ voices. A new report from Juniper Research has found that advancements in entertainment head-units and higher smartphone penetration will result in app capability reaching a...Big growth for HPC vendors
Worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market increased by 7,7% year over year in 2012 to a record $11,1-billion, up from $10,3-billion in 2011, according to the newly released International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...