Intelligent assistant landscape shows slow growth but huge potential
GUEST: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise. The truth is that innovation in this domain, as in all technological domains, follows More...
Chris Milk’s startup Vrse is slowly building a collection of the top VR video around
A few months ago, I found myself in a yard next to a school in Peru. Some Americans had come to give away shoes to students. I saw the students playing soccer, jumping rope, and dancing in their newly acquired More...
These 3 things are trying to kill Linux containers
GUEST: For nearly two years, Linux containers have dominated the world of enterprise IT, and for good reason — among others, they take on issues that virtualization simply cannot within application development More...
Sky Q has a major missing feature and it could end up costing you – here’s why
IF YOU’RE thinking of upgrading to Sky’s revolutionary TV service you might not get all the features you were hoping for. Daily Express :: Tech Feed More...
Nice, the high-performance computing company Amazon just acquired, has a heck of a customer list
Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Nice, a company in Italy with a Web interface for scheduling and monitoring high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The software must really More...
Europe’s new laws could cost you 4% of your revenues
GUEST: What’s 4% of your company’s global annual revenues? Are you prepared to pay this amount in fines? This is what you might face if you’re not paying attention to new data privacy developments in Europe, More...
How Monster Hunter finally found success in the United States
FEATURE: Monster Hunter hasn’t always been a success in the United States. Worldwide, it’s another story. Capcom’s Monster Hunter series has sold 35 million copies worldwide as of December, More...
Personalize or die: the secret to increasing email open rates, clicks — and revenue (webinar)
VB WEBINAR: Email marketing is the undisputed marketing ROI leader and the preferred channel for your customers — so why are you losing money? Join our live webinar to find out from the experts how personalization More...
Apple is replacing MacBook charging cables due to a ‘design issue’
Apple today announced that it will now offer free replacements for charging cables for MacBooks that use the USB Type-C specification, because some of them have not been working correctly. “A limited number More...
DevOps and the Enterprise: Podcast with Automic CTO John Purrier
We’re investigating the nature of these Innovation Engines in a series of What To Think podcasts, sponsored by Pivotal Tracker, and columns by VentureBeat editor at large Dylan Tweney. Tune in here to learn More...