Tibco acquires Jaspersoft for $185 million
Tibco has acquired Jaspersoft for $185 million in a deal that will give it a widely used embedded business-intelligence suite to sell alongside its existing Spotfire analytics product. Jaspersoft uses a...
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FCC Chairman to testify in front of the HCSC on May 20th
Mark your calendars: May 20 should provide fireworks. On that date, Tom Wheeler, current chairman of the Federal Communications Commission FCC will sit down in front of the House Commerce Subcommittee on...
IBM launches the IBM Cloud marketplace
IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. On its IBM Cloud online marketplace that goes live on Monday, enterprises...
Wanderful Media wants to bring newspaper coupons to phones
Wanderful Media, a company that partners with major American newspaper companies to bring online their Sunday “circulars” — or their flyers, deals and coupons the companies insert inside of their...
PC games are now more profitable than console games
Back in the day, gamers would prefer playing on the console over the PC simply because consoles were cheaper, not to mention they did not have to worry about hardware...
Huawei releases teaser trailer for the Ascend P7
Huawei has something to announce on the 7th of May in Paris, at least based on the invites that the Chinese company has been busy handing out. The product in question...
Hoop Tracker smartwatch measures basketball training progress
Basketball isn’t an easy sport and the creators of the Hoop Tracker knows this. Their Kickstarter campaign for the Shot Tracking Smartwatch aims to help players with their shots by...
Hong Kong hotels gives customers free smartphone
When traveling overseas and if you want to stay in contact with your friends and family back home, there’s always the option of roaming, although it does get pretty expensive....
Chinese documents suggest that Oppo owns OnePlus
Back in 2013, Oppo’s VP, Pete Lau, resigned in order to start up the OnePlus company which is responsible for the OnePlus One Android handset that runs on CyanogenMod. That being said, it...
Samsung announces new line of premium headphones and audio devices
When you think of the Samsung brand, perhaps devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, and TVs comes to mind, but it seems that Samsung has its eye on the mobile audio...
Supreme Court to address warrantless electronic device searches
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will take on the digital-age controversy over search and seizure of smartphones and other devices. In two cases coming before the court, warrantless searches of an electronic...
Engineer creates working smartphone using Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi — is there anything it can’t do? The tiny computer has helped inventors and hackers create a media streamer, outer space camera, games console and cocktail-mixing robot in its short lifetime, and you...
CEO of RadiumOne fired following domestic violence conviction
The embattled CEO of RadiumOne has been fired in the wake of a horrific domestic violence incident, Kara Swisher of Re/code reported. The company's board of directors fired Gurbaksh Chahal on Saturday...
Group creates a working Pip-Boy 3000 for NASA’s SpaceApps Challenge
Most people who have played Fallout 3 loved the idea of the wearable Pip-Boy 3000 device, well, a five-member group called Team Reno have done just that - created a...
Cosworth Live on Air system revolutionizes the racing experience
Cosworth, the well-known auto performance group, is making a public return to the IndyCar car racing series. The company just unveiled its Cosworth Live on Air system, which puts portable...
First Tizen-powered smartphone is coming to Russia next month
Tizen is alive, but unfortunately delayed yet again. However, there might be a light at the end of the tunnel for the joint Intel-Samsung developed OS, as according to a TizenIndonesia, Tizen...
California’s smartphone kill switch bill fails to pass the state’s Senate
A California bill hoping to add “kill switches” to smartphones failed to pass in the state’s Senate earlier this week. Lawmakers have been trying to come up with a solution...
Game of Thrones author says drones are worse than Dothraki
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has definitely come up with some of the most shocking ways to kill people, from gasp-inducing beheadings to blood-spattered Red Weddings. But in an...
Urban legend gets put to rest as workers dig up old E.T. Atari game
A decades-old urban legend was put to rest Saturday when workers for a documentary film production company recovered "E.T." Atari game cartridges from a heap of garbage buried deep in...
Study suggests that speed reading apps are bad for comprehension
Speed reading apps like Spritz are a nifty way to plow through text at a breakneck pace, but they’re not perfect. Such apps might rob you of your comprehension, according to new research. In a study by University of...