Monthly Archives: August 2015

IBM’s Makeover: A Buy-or-Die Strategy for Big Blue

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There’s lots of talk about what’s wrong with IBM, lots of opinions about how the strategies of the old CEOs undermined today’s IBM, and just as many about the company’s lack of vision. Unless you’re in the technology trenches, you probably don’t know how emotional these discussions can get: there are lots of IBM lovers and haters who are not afraid to express their thoughts about what went wrong and how to “fix” IBM.

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Lollipop grows to nearly one-fifth of all Android devices in latest distribution results

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For those keeping track, Google actually skipped the month of July when it comes to showcasing the latest Android distribution numbers, but it’s back again this month to show that Android Lollipop has not stalled in its adoption.

For August 2015, of which closes out Google’s 7-day recording period that ended on August 3 of devices that access the Google Play Store app, Android’s Lollipop variant (Android 5.0 and Android 5.1) had settled on 18.1 percent of devices. Breaking it down a bit more, Android 5.0 is currently on 15.5 percent of devices, while Android 5.1 is currently enlisted on 2.6 percent. That’s up from 12.4 percent in June.

Android 4.4 KitKat still managed to pull in the highest percentage at 39.3 percent of devices, and it actually saw an increase from the 39.2 percentage it held back in June. Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 through Android 4.3, showed up on 33.6 percent of devices, which sees a considerable drop down from 37.4 percent back in June. Android 4.0.3 – 4.0.4 saw a result of 4.1 percent of devices, another drop from the last recorded period.

All in all, it’s good news for the latest version(s) of Android, with Lollipop continuing to take over more devices.

Which version of Android are you running on your daily driver?

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EA Teases X-Wings And New Gameplay Mode For ‘Star Wars: Battlefront’

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Where are the X-Wings? The people asked. Sure, lasers and lightsabers are cool, but the X-Wings: we want the X-Wings. Vehicles have been a crucial part of the Star Wars: Battlefront series before, but we didn’t see any of them at the E3 gameplay preview. It looks like that’s going to change for Gamescom. Ea uploaded a short clip of some X-Wings, A-Wings and Tie Fighters (or Tie Interceptors, I think) to its Facebook page, promising us more to come on August 5th. They’re calling the upcoming mode “fighter squadron.”

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What Uber-style Transportation Networking Has Done To Taxis, Is Soon To Be Replicated For Trucks

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In the US, over 70 percent of all freight movement fueling its economic engine is hauled by trucks of various types and sizes. Needless to say, any improvements in freight efficiencies will have a cascading positive impact on all corners of the world’s largest and most dynamic economy. The last time the US transportation and logistics industry experienced revolutionary changes was in the 1990s, when IT induced remarkable efficiency gains. We are now at the cusp of a similar revolutionary transition in the trucking industry with Uber for truck-type apps entering the market, but this time the competition will be high and the solutions a lot more fragmented.

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