Microsoft said Thursday it will commit to a strict schedule for Windows and Office feature updates: every September and March. It’s a concession to IT administrators that will ripple down to all users. The company said it would hew to a “predictable” twice-per-year schedule for both platforms, though there’s still a little wiggle room: Microsoft…
Broadcom this week introduced a family of Ethernet switches that support new technology aimed at helping users address the rising network implications of the Internet of Things, automotive networking and video applications. +More on Network World: Ethernet: Are there worlds left to conquer?+ Key to that strategy is that the new family — Broadcom StrataConnect…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to deregulate the providers of the business data lines connecting broadband service to many small businesses, schools, hospitals, and ATM machines. The deregulation of business data services, or BDS, could mean broadband price hikes for those businesses as well as for mobile phone customers, critics said. BDS provides…
And definitely unplug the microwave. And maybe consider going to Settings > Siri and turning off the switch for “Allow Hey Siri.” Best of luck, Cher, we love you! NO JOKE…SIRI,OUT OF NOWHERE STARTS WRITING DOWN WHAT IM SAYING?MY PHONE ISNT IN MY HAND,&SEEMS “OFF”‼️OMG SHES IN LEAGUE WITH MICROWAVE? — Cher (@cher) April 20,…
A hotly anticipated upgrade to Google Home will let users train the company’s virtual assistant to recognize different voices and provide personalized responses to each person. When users set up speaker recognition, their Home devices will ask that they say “OK Google” and “Hey Google” two times each. Whenever someone uses one of those phrases…
The assistants in our living rooms are supposed to be as personal as they are on our phones, but it’s never really felt that way. Anyone who walks into our homes can say, “OK, Google,” or “Hey, Alexa” and get access to whatever they want, from upcoming appointments to the kind of music we like,…
How many virtual assistants can you fit in one smartphone? European network operator Orange is hoping there’s room to squeeze in one more. With the right apps, you can already talk to Alexa, Cortana and Google through your smartphone — and maybe also to Siri or Bixby if you went with one of the big…
MongoDB today announced that it has expanded support for its MongoDB Atlas database as a service offering to 14 Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions across the globe. MongoDB Atlas is a cloud-based version of the company’s open source, NoSQL document-oriented database. When it launched the service in June of 2016, MongoDB made it available only…
Google makes a lot of money from online advertisements. In what appears to be a surprising move at first glance, the company is likely to introduce an ad blocking feature that could be turned on by default in desktop and mobile versions of its Chrome browser, according to a news report. The move by Google…