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Apple has hired a team of hundreds of workers as part of a plan to develop a new set of virtual reality headsets, the Financial Times reported last week The report came on the heels of Oculus VR finally taking preorders on its Rift virtual reality system, which it began offering for US$599 as of Jan. 6. The Rift is scheduled to begin shipping on Ma...

Microsoft on Monday unveiledProject Natick, a research initiative aimed at developing underwater data centers that could be built near coastal cities The project is still in its infancy, but Microsoft built one test facility last year....

We're almost a quarter century removed from the coining of the phrase "sales and marketing alignment," a concept that dates back another 30 years. Businesses have been wrestling with the idea of coordinating two teams of people with different skill sets, ideas, personalities and (often) goals ever since the emergence of marketing as a profession Me...

Oracle earlier this week announced its decision to scrap its Java browser plug-in The plug-in, which has been a frequent target of hackers, won't be included in the next version of the kit for Java developers, JDK 9, which is expected to ship in September....

T-Mobile's Binge On streaming video service violates Net neutrality rules, according to a report authored by Barbara van Schewick, director of The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School The Binge On service, says the report, is problematic for the following reasons: ...

Movidius on Wednesday announced that it's working with Google to put deep learning on mobile devices Google will source Movidius' latest flagship chip -- the MA2450 -- and software development environment, and will contribute to Movidius' neural network technology road map in return....

Amazon has held licensing talks with music industry executives in connection with its goal to launch a rival toSpotify, Apple Music and other streaming music services, the New York Post reported Wednesday The company is targeting a fall rollout, according to the report....

Research at Google on Wednesday announced that AlphaGo has become the first computer software system to beat a human at the ancient game of Go There are more possible positions in Go than there are the number of atoms in the universe, and it has a googol (that's 1 followed by 100 zeroes) more positions than chess, noted Google DeepMind researchers ...

Most of your friends on Facebook may not care much about you at all, suggests an Oxford University study published last week. Friendships involving interactions over social networks are not that different from traditional real-world friendships, found Robin Dunbar, the professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford who conducted the research.

Project Decibel on Wednesday announcedStarry, a company that promises easy broadband Internet access at speeds of up to 1 GB with no caps Starry will deploy what it says is the world's first millimeter wave band for consumer Internet communications....

Walmart on Tuesday announced that it has posted the code for itsOneOps cloud application life cycle management platform on GitHub The company developed the OneOps platform for building and launching cloud-based applications across varied storage environments that change frequently. It lets e-commerce vendors deploy apps on platforms from Microsoft ...

Facebook on Wednesday reported earnings of 79 cents per share on US$5.84 billion in revenue for Q4 2015, and annual revenue of $17.93 billion, an increase of 44 percent year over year Net income for the full year ended Dec. 31 was $3.69 billion....

Sprint plans to lay off about 2,500 employees, including five vice presidents, according to news reports this week About 2,000 of the cuts are in customer service....

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Wednesday announced that he'd shared with colleagues a long sought-after proposal to loosen the set-top box's grip on home entertainment. The proposal seeks to spur competition and consumer choice in an arena dominated by large cable and satellite television providers. Wheeler's proposal wo...

The U.S. government has authorized an information technology contract with a potential value of US$503 million that is designed to meet newly adopted goals for greatly improving IT acquisition. TheGeneral Services Administration, which issued the contract for software and cloud-related services, described the acquisition approach as a first-of-its-kind initiative...

The U.S.Food and Drug Administration last week took a step toward addressing the threat the Internet of Things poses to patients and their data by releasing some proposed guidelines for managing cybersecurity in medical devices "A growing number of medical devices are designed to be networked to facilitate patient care. Networked medical devices, l...

Their fears confirmed, investors were bearish on Apple Wednesday, the day after the company reported its slowest-growth quarter ever. The company's shares closed the day at US$93.44, down 6.55 percent In its Q1 earnings report, Apple prepared investors for what may come next: its weakest quarter for iPhone sales in 13 years. Even worse is that the ...

Apple's Safari browser has been crashing on Macs and iOS devices when users launch a search through its address bar, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday OS X and iOS users worldwide have been affected, according to The Verge, which confirmed the problem on several iOS devices and at least one OS X machine....

Whether you call it "industry CRM," "vertical CRM" or something else, the concept is gaining altitude. Not that it's new or ever been gone, but today's vertical CRM is different -- a constellation of quantitatively and qualitatively different and better CRM solutions than we've ever seen Vendors like Veeva, Vlocity and Salesforce are getting into t...

GoPro on Monday announced an integration with Twitter'sPeriscope app that allows live streaming from a GoPro Hero4 camera Periscope users can switch between broadcasting from their iPhone's camera to their GoPro directly from the phone screen with the touch of a button, GoPro said....