Day: October 23, 2019

PTC to acquire Onshape for its SaaS product development platform

The $470 million deal should help PTC, a major industrial IOT player, accelerate its transition to a SaaS-based business model. …read more Source:: ZDNet


HPE plans to go all-in on everything as a service with heavy dose of Greenlake

HPE outlined its fiscal 2020 outlook at its analyst meeting and highlighted how its business will shift as it moves to a subscription model. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Last Week’s Fortnite Update Helped Akamai Set a New CDN Traffic Record

The Fortnite Chapter 2 update that rolled out to gamers worldwide last week has shattered traffic records at Akamai, one of the multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) Epic Games was using to get the game update to its players. From a report: Traffic numbers during the update’s rollout peaked at 106 Tbps on Akamai’s network,…


HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with ‘Price Fixing’ as the subject

Quanta was the last one standing… and now kneeling HP on Tuesday won a six-year court case against suppliers that it accused of price-fixing, with a jury in Texas awarding $176m to the US computer giant.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Great Data Takeout: Facebook, Google etc may be forced to hand over control of your info via an API (for a fee)

Delivery may be slow: US lawmakers, NIST still figuring it all out Assuming US lawmakers can set aside differences long enough to vote on actual legislation – not at all a foregone conclusion – users of large online communications platforms may be able to look forward better data portability and interoperability between services, eventually.… …read…


Android Pie Passes 20% Adoption After 12 Months

Google today shared that in August 2019, Android Pie had 22.6% adoption. From a report: That means the second-latest version of Android was running on a fifth of devices after some 12 months. Google did not share adoption numbers for any other Android version, including Android 10, the latest version that started rolling out last…


eBay posts solid Q3, concludes operating review

While the e-commerce company is still reviewing the value of StubHub and its Classifieds business, eBay’s finalized operating review resulted in a three-year plan to improve margins. …read more Source:: ZDNet


PayPal Q3 tops estimates as active user base climbs to 295 million

The company also delivered strong guidance for the current quarter and fiscal year. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Haunted by Europe’s GDPR, ICANN sharpens wooden stake to finally slay the Whois vampire

Whois to become Whoisn’t Like a bad horror movie in which the vampire keeps coming back from certain death, the Whois protocol – which provides information on who owns specific internet addresses – has endured far longer than anyone wanted or expected. But the final act is nigh and the wooden stake is being sharpened.……


Wyze celebrates its two-year anniversary with free shipping

The company is known for its inexpensive smart home products, and on Thursday, it’ll be even cheaper. …read more Source:: ZDNet