It seems that large companies see the agility of startups and wish that they were small again. As their core products reach small profit margins, these companies are separating to allow their enterprising potential grow. Symantec split into Symantec and Veritas, PayPal and eBay split up, and effective today, HP has split into two companies. Announcing the change last year and … [Read more...]
Army caps email inboxes to 4GB
The US Army began enforcing size limits on mailboxes with a deadline of today. DoD Enterprise Email (DEE) business accounts are now limited to 4GB by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) while basic users are limited to 512MB. The 512MB quota for basic users went into effect on March 12th while the 4GB quota went into effect today. The size limitations are being … [Read more...]
Google restructuring to Alphabet, Inc.
Google announced to the official blog that the company is restructuring. A new company is being created called Alphabet, Inc. which will run Google, Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary. What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield … [Read more...]
HP’s Martin Fink updates The Machine
At last year's HP Discover, the company's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink announced an ambitious new technology, The Machine. At this year's HP Discover, he was back with an update. The Machine's uniqueness is its memory-based architecture compared to today's CPU-centered architecture. This is what they are calling memory-centric computing. Following HP Discover 2015, … [Read more...]
Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2015
The keynote for Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference took place yesterday. In it, Apple CEO Tim Cook and others announced new features and services. Some announcements were nice iterations to improve performance while others might make more of a splash across the industry. Straight from the source: Apple Previews iOS9 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, with a public beta … [Read more...]