The suspense is over: Google has revealed the sweet nickname for its newest edition of the Android operating system -- Nougat. Google, which had been calling the in-progress OS Android N, disclosed the news initially via Snapchat and Twitter.Google has a history of naming Android versions after sweet treats, with Kitkat, Lollipop and Marshmallow being the most recent three. The company solicited suggestions for the latest name following its recent Google I/O event.Google CEO Sundar Pichai earlier this year hinted that an Indian delight could be in the offing as a nickname, and indeed nougat is popular in India. It's also contained in popular candy bars such as 3 Muskateers and Snickers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
You won't necessarily be able to use Amazon Prime Day on July 12 as an excuse to avoid family, like some do with Black Friday, but Amazon is promising that you'll get to choose from 100,000 great online shopping deals.
The second annual Amazon Prime Day is available only to those who have subscribed to Amazon Prime, which gets you free shipping, access to entertainment content and more for $99 a year (though you can also go the free trial route if you just want to dip in for Amazon Prime Day).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Bowdoin College’s WiFi network encompasses 550 Cisco access points and handles the wireless needs of up to several thousand people depending on how busy things are on the Brunswick, Maine campus. But CIO Mitchel Davis says this WLAN still has plenty of room to grow.The college over the past couple of weeks has been testing new WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy access points and accompanying cloud-based management tools from a Mountain View startup called Mist, formed by ex-Cisco WLAN big shots, as a possible way to expand its wireless services in exciting new ways.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Much of this past week in iPhone 7 rumorville was occupied with rehashing and debunking a lot of the most popular scuttlebutt (dual cameras, no more 3.5mm headphone jack, etc.) about Apple’s next flagship smartphone, which is expected to debut in September. Plenty continues to be said as well about how boring the new iPhones promise to be (though Apple will need to try really hard to make it duller than its recent Worldwide Developers Conference bounty). Macworld’s Macalope column rips into those who don’t have faith in Apple to do the right thing, including a writer for The Verge who urges Apple shoppers to have “Have some dignity” over buying what Apple is reportedly selling this time around.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
While new iOS 10 features like improved Maps, Siri integration and Photos were expected during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week, the company stunned developers by leaving the kernel unencrypted in the preview edition of its new iPhone and iPad software.MIT Technology Review first reported on this revelation, discovered by security researchers and iOS developers, who were left wondering whether Apple did this on purpose or goofed up big time. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Those outrageous Ticketmaster fees you've perhaps grudgingly been paying for years have indeed been found to be outrageous, and now the company has been forced to dole out $400M in vouchers that can be used to buy new tickets.For people like me, who have bought many Red Sox, Celtics and concert tickets over the years, this could be quite a windfall. Or not.As you can read on the FAQ page for Schlesinger et. al. vs. Ticketmaster, the ticket brokerage firm was found to have used an unclear fee system and overcharged those who had tickets shipped to them between Oct. 21, 1999 and Feb. 27, 2013.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Those outrageous Ticketmaster fees you've perhaps grudgingly been paying for years have indeed been found to be outrageous, and now the company has been forced to dole out $400M in vouchers that can be used to buy new tickets.For people like me, who have bought many Red Sox, Celtics and concert tickets over the years, this could be quite a windfall. Or not.As you can read on the FAQ page for Schlesinger et. al. vs. Ticketmaster, the ticket brokerage firm was found to have used an unclear fee system and overcharged those who had tickets shipped to them between Oct. 21, 1999 and Feb. 27, 2013.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Innovation Everywhere ChallengeImage by CiscoNearly half of Cisco’s 74,000-member workforce got involved in the company’s recently Innovation Everywhere Challenge, designed to spark startup-like activity among its ranks. More than 1,100 ideas were submitted and 3 winners were selected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Innovation Everywhere ChallengeImage by CiscoNearly half of Cisco’s 74,000-member workforce got involved in the company’s recently completed Innovation Everywhere Challenge, designed to spark startup-like activity among its ranks. More than 1,100 ideas were submitted and 3 winners were selected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Innovation Everywhere ChallengeImage by CiscoNearly half of Cisco’s 74,000-member workforce got involved in the company’s recently completed Innovation Everywhere Challenge, designed to spark startup-like activity among its ranks. More than 1,100 ideas were submitted and 3 winners were selected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Innovate Everywhere ChallengeImage by CiscoNearly half of Cisco’s 74,000-member workforce got involved in the company’s recently completed Innovate Everywhere Challenge, designed to spark startup-like activity among its ranks. More than 1,100 ideas were submitted and 3 winners were selected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Innovate Everywhere ChallengeImage by CiscoNearly half of Cisco’s 74,000-member workforce got involved in the company’s recently completed Innovate Everywhere Challenge, designed to spark startup-like activity among its ranks. More than 1,100 ideas were submitted and 3 winners were selected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Innovate Everywhere ChallengeImage by CiscoNearly half of Cisco’s 74,000-member workforce got involved in the company’s recently completed Innovate Everywhere Challenge, designed to spark startup-like activity among its ranks. More than 1,100 ideas were submitted and 3 winners were selected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
For a giant 30-plus-year-old company, Cisco has a reputation for keeping things fresh via spin-ins, buyouts and venture investments. But late last year, the vendor launched the Innovate Everywhere Challenge just to make sure it wasn’t overlooking any great new ideas among its 74,000 employees.
“We have phenomenal innovation programs for engineers, IT people, marketing people and sales, but what we’ve never really done is mix them up across functions and geographies,” says Cisco Director of Innovation Strategy & Programs Alex Goryachev, who counts Napster, Liquid Audio, IBM and Pfizer among his previous employers. “If you think about a true startup you have to have a great engineer, a great marketing/PR person, a business person, a finance person and a product person.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
It might surprise you that Cisco, one of the more acquisitive network companies around, hasn’t yet joined the fray of multi-million and multi-billion dollar virtual and augmented reality acquisitions and investments. Then again, Cisco now can look internally for a growing amount expertise in that field.
Cisco’s recently completed Innovation Everywhere Challenge surfaced the Enterprise Virtual and Augmented Reality (EVAR) team, an ad hoc group with user experience, IT engineering and system analysis chops that was among the Challenge’s three $50K winners. And yes, the team incorporated virtual reality into its live pitch at the competition finals.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
For a giant 30-plus-year-old company, Cisco has a reputation for keeping things fresh via spin-ins, buyouts and venture investments. But late last year, the vendor launched the Innovate Everywhere Challenge just to make sure it wasn’t overlooking any great new ideas among its 74,000 employees.
“We have phenomenal innovation programs for engineers, IT people, marketing people and sales, but what we’ve never really done is mix them up across functions and geographies,” says Cisco Director of Innovation Strategy & Programs Alex Goryachev, who counts Napster, Liquid Audio, IBM and Pfizer among his previous employers. “If you think about a true startup you have to have a great engineer, a great marketing/PR person, a business person, a finance person and a product person.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
For a giant 30-plus-year-old company, Cisco has a reputation for keeping things fresh via spin-ins, buyouts and venture investments. But late last year, the vendor launched the Innovate Everywhere Challenge just to make sure it wasn’t overlooking any great new ideas among its 74,000 employees.
“We have phenomenal innovation programs for engineers, IT people, marketing people and sales, but what we’ve never really done is mix them up across functions and geographies,” says Cisco Director of Innovation Strategy & Programs Alex Goryachev, who counts Napster, Liquid Audio, IBM and Pfizer among his previous employers. “If you think about a true startup you have to have a great engineer, a great marketing/PR person, a business person, a finance person and a product person.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The really shocking iPhone 7 news this week would be if anything related to Apple’s next big smartphone were announced at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Yes, big improvements to iOS and Siri are expected to be unveiled, and they will be important for iPhone 7, but we’re talking iPhone developments beyond that that might hit the market in the fall.We’re talking about really crucial stuff, like phone color…Goodbye gray, hello blue iPhone 7?
Speculation swirled late last week that Apple is plotting to ditch its Space Gray iPhone color for deep blue (undoubtedly with some grabby qualifier attached). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
It's open season on wireless carriers' silly and confusing commercials.Sure, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile have been the butt of jokes for some time now, and justifiably so, for the flimflam they spew about their amazing speeds and bargain pricing. SNL, for example, skewered Verizon a few years back in a skit that depicted all the jargon spewed by Verizon as "an old person's nightmare."Comedy Central's Amy Schumer more recently sent up those mobile phone ads that feature perky young women interacting with customers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
It's open season on wireless carriers' silly and confusing commercials.Sure, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile have been the butt of jokes for some time now, and justifiably so, for the flimflam they spew about their amazing speeds and bargain pricing. SNL, for example, skewered Verizon a few years back in a skit that depicted all the jargon spewed by Verizon as "an old person's nightmare."Comedy Central's Amy Schumer more recently sent up those mobile phone ads that feature perky young women interacting with customers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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