Tech Data Corp. will buy Avnet’s Technology Solutions unit, which preconfigures data center gear and offers other services, in a deal valued at $2.6 billion in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Tech Data will pay Avnet $2.4 billion in cash and 2.8 million common shares valued at $200 million. The deal […]
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Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day is a good one for customers looking to give their home WiFi network a shot in the arm. Today only, customers can save some 40 percent or more off selected TP-Link networking products, including routers, Wi-Fi extenders, and smart home products. In total, Amazon has 17 different TP-Link products on
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Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs has raised a new $120 million (U.S.) Series B round from investors including Intel Capital, The Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Investments Canada. The fresh funding will add considerably to the company’s coffers, and should help it with its goal of expanding its product line beyond the original Myo armband it currently
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When you speak to your phone — whether it’s Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa or the next one in line — you want to be heard, right? Well, Microsoft says it’s next in line for proving that it has got voice recognition down pat, better than ever before. A team of Microsoft researchers says they’ve gotten
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Internet of Things Technology Market Forecast to 2022 Based On Hardware (Processor, Sensor, Connectivity Technology), Platform (Device Management Platform, Application Management Platform, Network Management Platform) Software Solutions, Services, Application, Geography. – Advertising – – Agency – “Internet of things technology market is expected to grow at a high CAGR during the forecast period” The Internet
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced the first public meeting of a new “multistakeholder” process to address Internet of Things cybersecurity patching and upgrading will take place on Oct. 19 in Austin, TX. “The goal of this process will be to develop a broad, shared definition or set of definitions around security upgradability
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Peter Coffee The current level of energy around the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) demands an answer to one simple question: What’s different this time? For literally half a century, AI seemed to be an ever-receding destination that was always “20 years from now.” In the 1960s and 1970s, optimism and expectations for human-level computer
Some find Siri very helpful, though perhaps only those that the virtual assistant actually understands, but there is such a thing as being too helpful. According to a post on Reddit, Apple’s iconic personal assistant was only too willing to give its owner’s neighbor access to the house, via the front door even. Despite being
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Malta GlobalFoundries‘ plan to spend billions of dollars at its Fab 8 computer chip factory in Saratoga County in the next several years is part of the company’s strategy to get ahead of what it believes will be a sustained period of growth for the semiconductor industry. While some see evidence that ebbing consumer demand
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The Internet of Things may be taking a turn toward invisibility when it comes to marketing, at least in how a new connected farm is being positioned. Freight Farms, the company that turns shipping containers into year-round farms, is introducing a new connected farm unit that is four times smaller than its flagship offering. The
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