Pure Storage, which is at the vanguard of enabling the storage industry’s seismic transition from mechanical disk to flash memory, has raised $150 million in its Series E round. The latest round values the four-year-old Mountain View, California startup at a billion dollars. Pure Storage‘s FlashArray T. Rowe Price, Tiger Read More
IDC Errs in Tablet Shipment Forecast Cut
Market researcher IDC today modestly lowered its worldwide tablet shipment forecast for 2013 citing diversion in consumer spending on larger screen smartphones and new categories such as wearable devices like smart watches. IDC’s revised tablet shipments forecast for 2013 is 227.4 million units, down from its earlier estimate of 229.3 Read More
For $80 a year, you can access all the programs on your Mac or PC remotely from your iPad with the new Parallels Access service. Parallels Access has received favorable reviews from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The $80 annual fee is a sticking point though Read More
Google’s Hangouts video chat service has started letting users chat with friends and family in HD (high-definition). HD is being rolled out to the live streaming Hangouts on Air service initially. Google intends to extend HD to all desktop Hangouts video calls in the coming weeks. Google is ditching the Read More
Gold Gimmickry Won’t End iPhone Fatigue
Say what you will but I think a lot of consumers in North America and Europe have developed iPhone fatigue. iPhone upgrades increasingly bring few substantive improvements to justify their premium prices. Apple has relied on gimmickry like Siri voice control (introduced in the iPhone 4S) or the anodized aluminum Read More
IBM Buys Israeli Cybersecurity Specialist
To help banks and other financial institutions thwart the plague of cybercrimes, IBM is strengthening its cybersecurity business with the acquisition of Israeli startup Trusteer. IBM is setting up a new cybersecurity software lab in Israel that will bring together its researchers as well as Trusteer’s 200 security specialists. The Read More