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Amazon has introduced its first smartphone – the Fire. It features a 4.7-inch In-Plane Switching LCD HD display, a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with unlimited photo storage in the Amazon cloud, 2GB of RAM and many other features. One unexpected feature CEO Jeff Bezos debuted was FireFly, which uses sensors to enable users to identify things […]

Hewlett-Packard has entered into a partnership with Workday Human Capital Management applications, which is a mobile-enabled system delivered through a cloud service, to help organizations make faster decisions, get better operational visibility, prepare for future talent shifts and build effective teams. HP has now launched HP Enterprise Applications Services for Workday, with the goal of […]

AT&T has acknowledged that in April, three employees of one of its vendors hacked into the AT&T network and gained access to customer records, including call records and in some instances, Social Security numbers. This hack was part of a larger effort to unlock older phones for use on other networks. While the company hasn’t […]

Samsung is touting its newly introduced Galaxy Tab S tablet as a flagship product, featuring a new Super AMOLED screen with roughly 4 million pixels – which is more than the iPad Air. Samsung also says that the construction of the display makes it more vibrant than an LCD, in addition to cutting down on […]

IBM is opening new SoftLayer-based cloud data centers specifically for federal government workloads. They will feature IBM’s SoftLayer infrastructure, which has been designed to provide greater control and security of data, which is a high priority for federal government data centers. Also, IBM will be opening the market for the SoftLayer ecosystem, allowing business partners […]

Oracle has unveiled its new Oracle 12c Database In-Memory Option and in doing so has caught up with competitor SAP’s HANA 3-year-old in-memory database. The In-Memory Option is already optimized so it can be added directly into Oracle databases, saving IT managers from having to rewrite or re-install applications, retrain administrators or change any policies. […]

Hewlett-Packard is releasing a new family of high-performance computing systems, HP Apollo, which will offer up to four times the performance of standard rack servers while boasting a smaller, more efficient energy package, according to John Gromala, senior director of hyperscale product management for HP Servers. The higher-end Apollo 8000 will feature an innovative water-cooled […]

Just four days after Apple’s introduction of iOS 8 and its Health and Healthkit applications, the Nikkei reported that the company will introduce a watch-like wearable device this fall capable of recording user’s biometric information. Apple will be partnering with Nike to create a device that will be able to collect health data such as […]

Amazon is sending out invitations for an event in Seattle on June 18, where it’s rumored that the company will unveil a smartphone with a 3D, or hologram, display. The company also released a teaser video with consumers reacting as they use the device, but the device and their hands aren’t visible. Many react with […]

The open-source OpenSSL Project has issued a series of updates, providing seven security fixes for new flaws. These are the largest updates since the project was at the center of the original Heartbleed security alert in early April when the group fixed only one vulnerability. The Internet Storm Center ranked two of the newly patched […]