Saturday, July 2, 2016

Oracle To Pay HP Enterprise $3 Billion In Damages After Losing Itanium Lawsuit and other top stories.

  • Oracle To Pay HP Enterprise $3 Billion In Damages After Losing Itanium Lawsuit

    Oracle To Pay HP Enterprise $3 Billion In Damages After Losing Itanium Lawsuit
    Oracle must shell out $3 billion to Hewlett Packard Enterprise after a jury ruled against it in a trial that was on the table for five years. The two companies locked horns over Intel’s Itanium chipset.  ( Oracle | Facebook ) Oracle must pay $3 billion to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a lawsuit that debuted five years ago over the use of Itanium processors. HP claims that Oracle refused to further develop software for servers that work on Intel's Itanium chips. At the same time, ..
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  • Dell Steps Out Of Android Tablet Business, Discontinues OS Updates Too

    Dell Steps Out Of Android Tablet Business, Discontinues OS Updates Too
    Attention Dell Venue tablet users, the company will be discontinuing production lines for this device and ceasing future updates on its firmware. Those looking to invest in Android tablets should also be warned that this market is declining.  ( Dell ) If you've seriously invested or are starting to invest in Android tablets, reports have found that the market for such is on the decline. The first victim to drop off from the race is Dell, which recently announced that it will be a..
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  • Government probes Tesla driver's death using car's 'Autopilot'

    Government probes Tesla driver's death using car's 'Autopilot'
    A driver so enamored of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car "Tessy" and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated "Autopilot" system has become the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the driver's death Thursday, and said it is investigating the design and performance of the Autopilot system.Joshua D. Brown of Canton, Ohio, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company, was killed M..
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  • Android 7.0 Nougat -- what you need to know

    Android 7.0 Nougat -- what you need to know
    It's finally happened! Shout it from the rooftops, tweet it from your nexus phone -- Google has announced that the official name of the Android N operating system is Android Nougat.Is it the name everyone was expecting? Maybe not, but it follows Android's naming conventions. Nougat will officially be released this fall, but that hasn't stopped everyone from talking about it now. In IT Blogwatch, we serve up the tasty parts. Why Nougat? And what exactly is that? Ken Salcedo gives us the back..
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  • Facebook simplifies confusing chatbots with buttons, not text commands

    Facebook simplifies confusing chatbots with buttons, not text commands
    “What do I type?” is the big question making chatbots hard to use. So today Facebook Messenger is giving chatbot developers new “Quick Reply” buttons and persistent menu options to make their bots easier to navigate. Messenger bots can also now send videos, audio, GIFs, and files so they can encompass wider range of use cases. People can now rate bots with one to five stars to teach developers how to improve, though there’s no word on the chatbot analytics Facebook has promised. And if custome..
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  • Facebook Paper News App Shutting Down Next Month

    Facebook Paper News App Shutting Down Next Month
    Facebook's Paper news app is about to fold and be tossed into a bin filled with other Facebook apps that just never really took off. Paper goes down at the end of this month.  ( Facebook ) Facebook is tossing out the Paper news app. And while the company won't recycle the app, Facebook will continue to reuse elements of it in the core Facebook app. The Paper app, an iOS exclusive, will see its support come to an end on July 29. From that date forward, users won't be able to log i..
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  • Nintendo NX news: Console to introduce groundbreaking concept in terms of electronic entertainment

    Nintendo NX news: Console to introduce groundbreaking concept in terms of electronic entertainment
    (Facebook/Nintendo)The Nintendo logo For months now, the electronic entertainment industry has been relentlessly waiting for any significant information with regard to Nintendo's next generation console, dubbed as the NX. Unfortunately, tech buffs only have a target launch date to go on, alongside a slew of vague comments promising that the device would take the world by storm when it finally debuts. As it turns out, the Japanese electronics company has a reasonable explanation as to why it is..
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  • Facebook Rolls Out Personal Fundraisers In US, Enabling Individuals To Raise Money For Nonprofits

    Facebook Rolls Out Personal Fundraisers In US, Enabling Individuals To Raise Money For Nonprofits
    Facebook extended its fundraising tool to individual users in the United States, allowing them to raise money for their preferred causes. The rollout is limited for now, but the tool should become available to all U.S. users in the coming weeks.  ( Facebook ) Facebook started rolling out a new tool that makes it a lot easier for individual users in the United States to raise money for the causes they want to support. This follows the release of the Facebook fundraising tool back ..
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  • A Smart Crib Is a Stupid Idea

    A Smart Crib Is a Stupid Idea
    Patent drawing for Nest’s smart crib concept Baby products have always been part of a predatory industry that feasts on the paranoia of new parents. But it’s gotten worse in the last few years with the wave of baby-tracking tech. Now Nest—which makes a camera which is one of the top-rated baby monitors—is proposing a smart crib, according to patent documents filed by Google. Case in point: The “Sproutling” for baby convicts A Nest smart crib would join hundreds of devices that track bre..
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