Gaming: a question of skill
Bring it in: There is a demand that betting on sports such as cricket should also come under gaming and be termed as games of skill. | Photo Credit: Getty…
Sprint seeks alternatives to a merger with T-Mobile -sources
Sprint Corp has proposed a merger with Charter Communications Inc as the wireless carrier seeks an alternative to a deal with T-Mobile US Inc that has so far not come to fruition, according to…
Upgraded AWS automation streamlines cross-account controls
AWS CloudFormation, Amazon's infrastructure-as-code offering, this week added StackSets to manage changes across regions or accounts. That comes a month after the monitoring service CloudWatch Events added cross-account support, too.…
Somnoware Adds Cloud-Based Sleep Study Scoring Functionality
Digital health technology company Somnoware announces the addition of a secure cloud-based polysomnography (PSG) distributed scoring solution to its healthcare management platform. This solution provides physicians with remote scoring capability…
Stanford, Cal coaches talk players’ social media
Photo: Mark J. Terrill, Associated Press Cal head coach Justin Wilcox says social media can tell you a lot about what a player is really like. The benefits and drawbacks…
Amazon reportedly acquired GameSparks for $10M to build out its gaming muscle
Amazon and its enterprise cloud division AWS have been making a number of moves to expand the company as a platform to build and host games. One of the latest developments…
Microsoft’s slow creep back into mobile
Despite an early lead with Windows Mobile and Windows CE — and spending billions on Nokia’s mobile business — Microsoft has been on its heels in the mobile device market…
Salesforce updates Service Cloud with more customization tools
Salesforce released an updated version of Service Cloud on Thursday that aims to make it easier for businesses to customize and extend the platform across an organization, as well as…
Parkinson’s study uses ‘Avatar’ technology to prevent falls
It looks, admittedly, a little peculiar. “When I sent a pic to my daughter, I said do not put this on Facebook,” jokes 63-year-old Sandie Hampton. “Just wait until the…
How to declutter your technology
If you have ‘worked’ from home with young children, you’ll understand the quotations. Often not a great deal of work gets done. It’s difficult to maintain your mental focus when…