SAP invests in Vivanda, a food digitization, big data company
SAP and its HANA portfolio are aiming to ride along with a company that digitizes, personalizes, maps and analyzes food preferences for individual consumers. Read More
Windows 10 tip: Shut down OneDrive completely
In Windows 10, OneDrive is built in. The connections are so tight, in fact, that OneDrive has its own node in File Explorer, with no obvious way to remove it. But the options to disconnect OneDrive are there if you know where to look. Here are full instructions. Read More
Samsung unveils Tizen-powered Z2 with 4G in India
The Z2 smartphone is the third in the low budget series aimed at the country and the first to support 4G LTE connectivity. Read More
The marriage of Microsoft and Linux
Wim Coekaerts, corporate VP of Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Group, came to LinuxCon preaching enable, integrate, release, and contribute instead of embrace, extend, and extinguish. Read More
Samsung could be preparing Amazon Echo competitor, FCC filing shows
The smart home is becoming a key target for hardware firms, and now Samsung is ready to join in with the ‘Scoop’. Read More
Parrot Disco fixed-wing drone lands for $1,300 in September with headset
Parrot has a new take on the consumer drone — with a headset to match. Read More
Google reportedly launching Daydream VR platform in ‘coming weeks’
Google is ready to take virtual reality past Cardboard. Read More
Boomerang launches machine learning email composition tool Respondable
Writing emails that get responses is a valuable skill – but it is hard to determine what makes an email likely to get a response. Boomerang thinks its new tool has the answer for businesses. Read More
Best Buy posts surprise Q2 earnings beat driven by strong online sales
Best Buy said domestic online sales grew nearly 24 percent year over year. That growth also marks a 75-percent increase in online revenue over the last three years. Read More
Raspberry Pi and Docker: Tiny $35 computer gets major new release of HypriotOS
After Microsoft’s Windows IoT Core update and Google’s Fuchsia, the Raspberry Pi sees a major new release of Hypriot’s Docker-friendly container tech. Read More