Yesterday, Chicago Public Library opened the doors to its maker lab for the masses, a place where the public can play with 3D printers, milling machines and more. Those previously barred from…
Oracle Acquires Nimbula to Brighten Its Cloud
Oracle, the enterprise software giant, has acquired Nimbula, the cloud management software company built by the original creators of Amazon Web Services, to help brighten its cloud offering with some much needed…
Oracle to Pay $1.7B for Acme Packet
Oracle, the world’s third largest software maker and top producer of high end business computers, will pay $1.7 billion to acquire Acme packet, a company that sells telecommunications VoIP hardware. “The addition…
Apple: China to Become #1 Customer, Negotiating with China Mobile
While making his second trip to China as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook told China’s state-run Xinhua news agency that China will one day become the company’s largest customer. Currently, China ranks as…
Jury Rules Apple’s iPhone Guilty of 3 Patent Violations
A Delaware federal jury has ruled that Apple’s iPhone violated three patents owned by MobileMedia Ideas, a patent-licensing firm owned by MPEG-LA that acquired patents from Sony and Nokia. After four hours…
Apple to Invest Over $100M to Produce Macs in US
Apple plans to spend over $100 million in the next year to start producing Mac computers in the US. The move shifts a small segment of Apple production away from China, where…
Big Switch Networks Lands $25M for Network Virtualization
Big Switch Networks has just landed $25 million to help it take on such giants as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and Juniper Networks in the network virtualization space. The round was led by…
RainStor Nabs $12M for Compressed Databases
RainStor, the provider of a specialized database that enables wide scalability through extreme compression techniques, has raised $12 million in a Series C round led by Credit Suisse and Rogers Venture Partners.…
Seoul Court Rules Samsung Didn’t Steal Apple Design
A Seoul Court ruled Friday that while both Samsung’s and Apple’s devices look similar, Samsung is not in violation of stealing the design, Reuters reported. The judge ruled that consumers were not…
A Dozen times Around the Globe: Google’s Robot Car
Google’s self-driving robot cars have now clocked over 300,000 miles, the equivalent of driving 12 times around the world’s 25,000 mile equator circumference. And they’ve done it without an accident, or at…