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Google's new $200 router made for better WiFi
In response to today’s connection issues, Google created a router that’s more capable of handling our daily needs.
Speaker can answer questions
Designed around voice recognition, Amazon Echo is hands-free and always on. With seven microphones and beam-forming technology, Echo can hear from across the room, even while music is playing. It is also an expertly tuned speaker that can fill any room with immersive sound. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news and check sports scores or the weather. All you have t...
Altair Announces High-Performance Computing Cloud Challenge
Altair announced a new High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud Challenge utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel technologies to demonstrate the benefits of leveraging the cloud for large-scale design exploration in the area of computer-aided engineering (CAE).
Is DC grid a viable solution for data centres?
Increasing internet traffic and video streaming will encourage large data centre investments in the coming years with around $143bn invested for new data centre projects worldwide. Large online companies such as Amazon, Facebook and Google are leading the investment in next-gen 'green' data centres. There is a trend towards building larger data centres, consolidating and increasing the density of server concentration for the sites which require m...
Cloud software simplifies the development of IoE devices
Qualcomm has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Atheros, is expanding its IoE platform with the addition of six new ecosystem providers whose distinct client software for cloud services are now integrated within the QCA4002 WiFi solution and its accompanying development platform. The addition of these providers further simplifies the development of devices that use WiFi to connect to the IoE by increasing cloud service flexibility and making...
Online gaming to fuel $150bn digital content market by 2019
A recent report from Juniper Research has found that the value of the global digital content market will reach $154bil annually by 2019, an increase of nearly 60% on 2014. The latest research, Digital Content Business Models: OTT & Operator Strategies 2015-2019, observed that mobile and online games would account for the largest share of content sales (38% of cumulative revenues), with game formats continuing to transition from physical to di...
Carrier billing will deliver $14bn in revenue by 2019
According to a report published by Juniper Research, content paid for via carrier billing will provide operators with more than $14bn in revenues over the next five years. The report, titled Digital Content Business Models: OTT & Operator Strategies 2015-2019, argues that growth will be fuelled by a dramatic rise in carrier billed payments made on devices such as tablets, consoles and smart TVs.
MCU Car Rally winners announced
Renesas Electronics Europe has revealed the winners of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students, which was held at embedded world 2015 in Nuremberg. Seventeen teams comprising 100 students from all over Europe participated in the event by developing a functioning model rally car based on sensors and other electronic components from Renesas.
Apple invests in pioneering $850m solar energy deal
In February 2014, Tim Cook, CEO, Apple, responded to a climate-change heckler at the company's annual shareholder meeting with a rebuttalin which he told investors who care only about profits to “get out of the stock.” Now Cook is putting his prodigious sums of money where his mouth is, proclaiming the “biggest, boldest, most ambitious project ever,” an $850m deal to buy power from First Solar, the biggest U.S. developer o...
UAV market to shift from military to commercial, says report
The popular term 'drones' gives a military connotation to the long-awaited, futuristic innovation that is Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). According to IDTechEx, most of today's market value lies in military applications, both for electric and - the big money - non-electric versions. Nonetheless, small UAVs are increasing in sales fastest, primarily due to non-military applications.