The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreMobile app downloads over the week from Christmas to New Year's Eve increased to 1.76 billion, up from 1.2 billion a year ago. It's also a significant spike over the 1.07 billion weekly average recorded earlier in December.…
Read MoreAvis Budget is buying Zipcar for $500 million in cash as it takes a big leap into the car-sharing market. Zipcar will get a big backer who can make it more efficient and help it grow.…
Read MoreFab is just 18 months into its existence as an online design store, but it's been an eventful ride. Here's a look at far the company has come based on some figures and slides provided by CEO Jason Goldberg.…
Read MoreRunkeeper is updating to 3.0 for iOS just in time for the New Year. The improvements include a cleaner UI, better photo sharing and tracking abilities and refactored code base that should enable faster and better improvements in the future.…
Read MoreCar keys may soon be a thing of the past. Hyundai is testing out a concept in which it allows users to access their car using NFC-enabled smartphones. The tap-and-go interaction can also trigger individual user preferences and initiate streaming between the phone and car.…
Read MoreOuya, an open $99 gaming console built off of Android, raised $8.6 million on Kickstarter. And now it's shipping 1,200 consoles to developers, who can begin to create games for the system using Ouya's SDK.…
Read MoreMoovit is trying to be the Waze of public transit by offering a crowd-sourced transportation app for bus and train commuters. The system hopes to provide more accurate estimated time of arrivals and better updates on upcoming travel conditions.…
Read MoreChristmas Day, the biggest day for mobile device activations, lived up to its billing, said Flurry, which noted that device activations hit 17.4 million devices, up from 6.8 million a year ago. Tablets edged out smartphones for activations.…
Read MoreThe Pew Research Center reported that almost a quarter of Americans are reading ebooks. But more of the growth in ebook reading devices is happening on tablets than dedicated e-readers.…
Read MoreRIM posted better than expected results but it's still facing an uphill battle as it looks ahead to the launch of BlackBerry 10. RIM's got cash but its subscriber base slipped in the most recent quarter.…
Read MoreKickstarter project POP, which promised a fast-charging, high capacity charger for mobile devices, is refunding backers their money after Apple rejected the project. It's one of the biggest projects to issue a refund on Kickstarter.…
Read MoreKickstarter is not a store, but many people who back technology, design and game projects sometimes think that way, which can be a problem when projects gets delayed. Here's my suggestion for how to fix this issue.…
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