Cars are turning into computers with a unique set of requirements. One of the more important components is a camera, which is a secondary feature in PCs. Cameras are aiding mirrors in allowing cars to self park, and they will serve as the eyes for autonomous cars, helping capture and analyze images. The number of cameras…
The moment Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was dreading has arrived: Microsoft is wielding LinkedIn against Salesforce in the battle for the CRM market. Starting Tuesday, salespeople will get LinkedIn Sales Navigator data alongside other information in the Dynamics 365 Sales dashboard. Users who have both systems will see information from LinkedIn profiles inside the lead,…
The internet of things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and 3D printing promise to improve productivity on a grand scale for enterprises, cities and other organizations. Even so, CEOs and other senior enterprise managers rate such breakthrough technologies “very low” in terms of productivity improvement in the next five years, according to a new Gartner survey of…
Your devices scoop up all kinds of information about you to provide helpful services and deliver supposedly targeted advertising. Since the debut of Windows 10 this trend has also landed in full force on the PC. But what if you don’t want to participate in this cloud-based madness? A good start is to restrict your…
Whether you have a new Android Wear 2.0 watch or a first-gen model that just received an update, they’re about to get a lot more buffed. We already know the new Google Fit app brings a bunch of new trackers and motivators for workout buffs, but in the latest update, Google is finally turning on…
One of the most common use cases for public IaaS cloud computing is storage and that’s for good reason: Instead of buying hardware and managing it, users simply upload data to the cloud and pay for how much they put there. +MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Battle of the clouds: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud…
AMD is giving a demonstration of the brute force of its upcoming Vega GPU, showing its ability to handle 4K and 8K graphics. The company is showing off its next-generation Radeon Pro professional graphics card based on the Vega GPU at the NAB show in the Las Vegas this week. One demonstration has the Vega…
ZTE’s Quartz smartwatch is the Chinese phone maker’s first attempt at breaching what’s quickly becoming a saturated U.S. smartwatch market. Two of the watch’s most promising features are its ability to be used without a phone and its affordability. But how do these promises stand up to the test? I tried it out for myself. …
As IT rises up the list of business priorities, CEOs are more likely to read about new technologies than they are to ask their CIOs for information. That’s one of the findings in a new survey by Gartner, in which 31 percent of business leaders questioned put IT among their top three priorities. It’s the…
AMD’s new Radeon Pro Duo graphics packs two of the company’s fastest GPUs, but surprisingly, is slower than its 2016 predecessor. The Pro Duo, announced on Monday, is based on the Polaris architecture. It provides 11.45 teraflops of single-precision performance, which is a downgrade from the 16 teraflops of performance offered by last year’s Pro…