Apivio Announces New Recurring Revenue Model Through CLive Contract with Sora Telecom

Apivio Systems Inc. , a leading provider of VoIP solutions, is pleased to announce Sora Telecom as its first customer to adopt the Company’s cloud-based Internet protocol device management service . Developed under the guidance of NEC Corporation of America , Sora Telecom will soft-launch its hosted VoIP phone service in the coming weeks with the NEC UT880S Android desk phone developed by Apivio, along with Apivio’s Liberty L2 Wi-Fi phone, and Dexter D1 desk phone.

Fireglass Named to the First Ever CNBC Upstart 25 List

Emerging from Israel’s cybersecurity industry , Fireglass was selected among hundreds of nominees to place on this exclusive list that CNBC described as “a diverse group of companies that are building brands, breaking industry barriers and scaling quickly on the path to becoming tomorrow’s household names .” Fireglass’ award-winning True Isolationi 1 2 technology breaks barriers by completely eliminating malware and phishing from web and email while providing a seamless user experience.

TERA players can now conduct transactions in reais via UOL BoaCompra

UOL BoaCompra, the leading company in digital payments in the gaming segment in , closed on a partnership with the North American publisher En Masse Entertainment, making it easier for gamers to acquire exclusive items from the TERA Store using reals. Players can now use all of BoaCompras’s payment methods, including any brand of national credit cards, bank payment slips, online deposits with the country’s principal banks, online payments via PagSeguro, and the virtual card, Go4gold.

AMD details Zen-based Naples server processors

After the successful launch of its new Ryzen processors last week, AMD has announced the first details of its upcoming Naples CPUs intended for servers and data centers. These processors were designed around the same Zen architecture as Ryzen though they will be a great deal more powerful.

DNAStorage

In a case of technology meets biology, scientists in labs across the country are experimenting with synthetic DNA as a storage medium, most notably Microsoft and the University of Washington. Engineers have successfully been pushing more storage into smaller spaces for decades, but that can’t go on forever.

In a change of attitude, NASA appears to embrace private rockets

On Wednesday, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William Gerstenmaier, flashed an interesting slide during a presentation that showed 23 different rockets, from the small Orbital ATK Antares and Russian Soyuz boosters all the way to SpaceX’s massive Interplanetary Transport System. Some of the boosters, such as the Soyuz, have flown often.

Bookstore News: March 9, 2017

ABA to provide low-cost e-commerce platform; a feminist bookstore opens in Montreal; a Providence store faces a forced move; and more. ABA Adding Low-cost E-commerce Alternative: IndieLite is a new platform under development by the American Booksellers Association for bookstores just getting started with online sales or want a simple, low-maintenance option compared with ABA’s signature IndieCommerce platform.

Alibaba seeks $5 bln loan amid tech financing rush – Basis Point

An employee is seen behind a glass wall with the logo of Alibaba at the company’s headquarters on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, April 23, 2014. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is in talks with banks to raise $5 billion in new funding, sources told Thomson Reuters’ Basis Point, amid a flurry of fund-raising by China’s tech giants.

Uber Pledges to Stop ‘Greyballing’ Law Enforcement

The practice, which came to light last week in a New York Times report, was used to deceive authorities in cities where the ride-hailing service is banned. When Uber suspects that someone is using its app in a way that it deems improper – say, conducting a sting operation to identify Uber drivers – the company will display phantom cars to confuse the person, or manually cancel a trip if the person manages to be matched with a driver.

It’s official: Potatoes can grow on Mars

An experiment simulating conditions on Mars demonstrated that the hearty tubers can thrive even under the harsh conditions on the Red Planet. Two years after a humble potato patch co-starred in “The Martian,” scientists have found that fictional astronaut Mark Watney’s strategy for surviving on the Red Planet could actually work.

IBM creates hard drive from a single atom magnet

IBM stores one bit of data on a SINGLE atom: Breakthrough may lead to credit card-sized devices capable of holding the entire iTunes library of music Imagine one day being able to carry vast libraries of data, currently stored in rooms full of servers, in your pocket. That’s the dream of a team of IBM scientists who have built what they say is the world’s smallest ever magnet, which uses a single atom to store information.

Has Walmart found a digital answer for empty store shelves?

There’s a lot going on at Walmart these days as the retailing giant continues its aggressive push to create a seamless shopping environment between its stores and online businesses. One example was revealed yesterday by Walmart CFO Brett Briggs who told attendees at the Raymond James Investor Conference that the retailer is testing an endless aisle solution in some of its toy departments.

FBI investigating source of WikiLeaks’ purported CIA document dump

The last time something similar happened was when NSA contractor Edward Snowden had revealed that the agency was secretly collecting call metadata from United States citizens. “That’s today”, tweeted Edward Snowden, who leaked classified government information four years ago and claimed that yesterday’s WikiLeaks revelations “look authentic” and are “genuinely a big deal”.

Lonza Names New Leader in Research and Technology

Jordan Petkov, Ph.D., has joined Lonza Consumer Care as global head of research and technology for its personal care and hygiene businesses. Based in Blackley , Dr. Petkov provides technical support for Lonza’s portfolio of hygiene, preservation, hair and skin care products.

San Jose flood: Rock Springs still ravaged two weeks later

Some areas are recovering faster than others, and the Rock Springs neighborhood that was first to flood will be last to return to normal Rob Souza’s backyard cottage, destroyed by a falling oak tree during the Coyote Creek floods, waits for demolition in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Marie Perry watches from her Rock Springs homeless camp as nearby residents, many now homeless themselves, salvage what they can from their flood-damaged homes in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

Researchers uncover new agents

Mayo Clinic researchers have uncovered three new agents to add to the emerging repertoire of drugs that aim to delay the onset of aging by targeting senescent cells – cells that contribute to frailty and other age-related conditions. A recent study of human cell cultures shows that the drugs, fisetin and two BCL-XL inhibitors – A1331852 and A1155463 – cleared senescent cells in vitro.

Gold Suffers Worst Run Since October as Slide Below $1,200 Looms

Gold is sliding toward $1,200 an ounce in its longest losing run since October as positive U.S. economic figures reinforce expectations that yields on other investments will rise this year. Bullion for immediate delivery fell 0.3 percent to $1,204.14 an ounce by 9:40 a.m. in London after touching the lowest level since Feb. 1, according to Bloomberg generic pricing.

Akzo Mulls Breakup After Rejecting $22 Billion PPG Bid

Akzo Nobel NV, Europe’s largest coatings company, rejected an unsolicited 20.9 billion-euro takeover bid from PPG Industries Inc. and said it may separate its specialty chemicals business to boost the stock price. PPG’s bid, worth 83 euros a share at the end of February, substantially undervalued the company, Amsterdam-based Akzo said in a statement Thursday, confirming a Bloomberg News report that the U.S. company was exploring a deal.

Descartes Labs imagery search engine

We have looked at a number of image recognition based search engines before, such as Google faces tracker , which we saw in 2013, which was designed for finding faces in Google Earth imagery, or Terrapattern a more recent and more general search engine. We have also had a look at DigitalGlobe’s use of artificial intelligence to analyse imagery.

Orange3 3.4.0

It includes a range of data visualization, exploration, preprocessing and modeling techniques. It can be used through a nice and intuitive user interface or, for more advanced users, as a module for the Python programming language.