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Hassle-free home security sounds good, right? Perhaps $160,000 good, if you’re Scout Alarm … with none of that money going through crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo. In fact, Scout Alarm crowdsourced that cash all on its own. The Scout Alarm is a $120 “next-generation” alarm system that is designed for renters as well as [...]
Image copyright Adisa There was a time when retail was a fairly straightforward business. Buy inventory with an eye to customer demand, put out a “Yes, We’re Open!” sign, provide friendly customer service and repeat. Technology has changed that, and the advent of information-on-demand and Internet-enabled mobile devices is pushing retailers to adapt their practices [...]
Image copyright Adisa There was a time when retail was a fairly straightforward business. Buy inventory with an eye to customer demand, put out a “Yes, We’re Open!” sign, provide friendly customer service and repeat. Technology has changed that, and the advent of information-on-demand and Internet-enabled mobile devices is pushing retailers to adapt their practices [...]
Nvidia’s Tegra 4 beat out Qualcomm’s fastest Snapdragon processor in a benchmark test, according to Nvidia’s own released benchmark data from a couple of weeks ago. Today, the Microprocessor Report confirmed that analysis and said that the Tegra 4 is the fastest mobile processor based on ARM’s chip architecture. Kevin Krewell, analyst at The Linley [...]
Nvidia’s Tegra 4 beat out Qualcomm’s fastest Snapdragon processor in a benchmark test, according to Nvidia’s own released benchmark data from a couple of weeks ago. Today, the Microprocessor Report confirmed that analysis and said that the Tegra 4 is the fastest mobile processor based on ARM’s chip architecture. Kevin Krewell, analyst at The Linley [...]
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is about to go shopping for acquisitions, and he’ll have $1 billion to spend. The company just announced a plan to raise its debt by issuing convertible notes due in 2018. Salesforce says it will use the proceeds to fund “possible acquisitions of, or investments in, complementary businesses, services or technologies, [...]
They wanted to play SimCity. They really did. And maybe they will soon. But our guest writers who are reviewing the city-building simulation had the same server-connection issues everyone else did in the days shortly after the PC game’s release (see our coverage here). Publisher EA and developer EA Maxis say the problems are going [...]
Hewlett-Packard just filed its regular form 10Q or quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and it contains some news. In the filing HP discloses that it has been told by the Serious Fraud Office in the United Kingdom that it has opened an investigation into the allegations that HP has leveled at [...]
Perhaps because the marriage between ThinkPad and BlackBerry seems so natural, another Lenovo executive is hinting that the company would be open to purchasing the beleaguered smartphone company. Lenovo chief executive Yang Yuanqing told the French financial paper Les Echos that a BlackBerry deal “could possibly make sense, but first I need to analyze the [...]
Sept. 9 – 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Salesforce.com announced this afternoon that it will raise $1 billion in convertible debt with the potential for $150 million more. The cloud computing giant will float convertible bonds due in 2018. Since the news was released, shares are down 35 cents [...]