Over the next five years, the company behind Snapchat will pay Google at least US$2 billion in cloud bills. On Thursday, Snap revealed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it signed a five-year contract to pay Google at least $400 million a year for cloud services. That’s a steep figure,…
The internet is what made IoT happen, providing a common protocol to take the place of separate, specialized networks. But the public internet itself may not always be the best path between a connected device and the cloud. Enterprises can now connect cellular IoT devices to back-end systems via NetBond, a private network service from…
RSA Conference 2017 will take on the threat posed by the internet of things, something that was demonstrated last fall by the DDoS attacks that took down Dyn data centers and many of the high-profile Web sites it supports. Those attacks, generating peak traffic of 1TByte or more, raise the question of how best to…
The rocketship of cloud growth continued at the end of 2016 for Amazon Web Services. The public cloud provider announced Thursday that it brought in a little more than $3.5 billion during the fourth quarter of last year, up 47 percent from the same period in 2015. Quarterly operating income rose 60 percent to $926 million, compared…
Geek out Image by Stephen Sauer Treat your favorite Valentine to something special. Check out these gifts that offer a techie alternative to the usual flowers, jewelry and candy. MORE IDEAS: See our Valentine’s Day gift guides from 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Source:…
Sanctions imposed by former President Obama on Russia for hacking during the U.S. election had an unintended side effect: they essentially barred U.S. tech firms from selling new IT products in the country. Part of last month’s sanction order was designed to block U.S. companies from doing business with Russia’s Federal Security Service, also known as the…
Here’s further evidence that Apple wants to develop “smart bands” for Apple Watch. According to a recently published patent, Apple has developed a way for Apple Watch bands to incorporate a wearable battery that could charge the device on the go. These batteries could be partially embedded within a band or attach to an existing…
Microsoft today asked the U.S. government to create a mechanism for granting exemptions to last week’s executive order on immigration that would meet “the pressing needs of real people,” including scores of company employees and their families. In the letter to the heads of the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security, Brad Smith,…
Major American companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, have drafted an open letter to Donald Trump that is now being passed around Washington D.C. The letter, obtained by Recode, takes a positive yet cautious approach to addressing Trump’s immigration restrictions. “Our nation’s compassion is a part of what makes it exceptional, and we…
The Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward the eventual roll-out of over-the-air terrestrial 4K television broadcasting in the U.S. On Thursday, the agency published a proposed regulation that would allow TV stations to begin broadcasts using the ATSC3.0 format, a newer version of the digital transmission format used today. ATSC 3.0 uses…