Day: April 1, 2014

Cloud Culture Microsoft

Microsoft Azure Matches Amazon’s Price Cuts And Introduces New “Basic” Tier

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As reported TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois After Google’s drastic price cuts for its cloud computing services, Amazon quickly matched them. Given that Microsoft always promised to match prices, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the company todayannounced its own round of massive price cuts. Prices for compute on Microsoft Azure (previously known as Windows Azure) dropped by up to 35 percent and Microsoft cut storage prices by up to 65 percent. With these changes, Microsoft matches all of Amazon’s prices and…

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Business

One Company Betting On Oculus Rift As The Platform For VR HR Training

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington The Oculus Rift and its creator Oculus VR have been purchased by Facebook, and that’s causing some, including Minecraft developer Mojang, to reconsider their projects for the platform. But others are doubling down on their Oculus investment, including Technology Transfer Services (TTS), a company that designs training software for workforce education. This is another story today where I had to check to make sure it wasn’t an early April Fools’ joke,…

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Culture Design

New York Public Library now lets you use 20,000 historical maps for free

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Ever wanted to see what New York City’s maps looked like before skyscrapers took over… or before Americans took over, for that matter? It’s now easy as pie. The New York Public Library has published more than 20,000 of its historical maps under aCreative Commons public domain license. You can freely download, manipulate and publish cartography created between 1660 and 1922, a large chunk of which explores New York City’s neighborhoods in…

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Hardware Dev TV

Verizon FiOS Media Server arrives as Quantum TV DVR that records up to 12 channels at once

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER We double checked the calendar too, but no, it’s not an April Fools joke — Verizon’sFIOS Media Server is finally available in a few areas as a part of the new Quantum TV package. The VMS1100 upgrades the standard cable boxes used by Verizon and other providers by shoving six tuners and a 1TB hard drive into a box that then feeds TV to other smaller set-top boxes in the…

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