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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

By Rich Tehrani on Monday, May 20

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Tagged call center, contact center, crm, customer service, hallmark, net promoter score, nps, tsr

Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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Tagged 5g, android, apple, cisco, dell, foldable, folding, galaxy fold, huawei, ios, ipad, iphone, mate x, samsung, tariff, trump

IGEL Advances Future of Work

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tagged automation, displayport, fow, future, future of work, google, green technology, linux, microsoft

Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Tagged apple lost american jobs, china, supply chain

Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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Techland May Be Ready for Another Crack at Dead Island 2

August 24, 2015

Back when Dead Island first came out, it was said there was a little--or maybe more than a little--friction between its developer Techland and its publisher Deep Silver. That didn't bode well for the creation of Dead Island 2, which at least partially explains why Deep Silver turned to Yager instead. But with Yager filing for insolvency, that leaves Dead Island 2 somewhat in limbo, a limbo that Techland, reportedly, might like to help fix.

Techland producer Tymon Smektala stepped in, noting that he would "...love to go back to Dead Island," and would be ready to serve should Deep Silver call. Smektala even charitably referred to the Yager insolvency as "sad news," not only believing that it could well have been Techland on the bad end of that news, but also hating to see progress halted on Dead Island 2 altogether.

Tagged: Dead Island, Gamescom, German language, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Insolvency, Internet Protocol, Koch Media, Techland, VideoGamer.com, Yager : Related Tags: zombie gaming, dying light, island, techland, silver, smektala

Xbox One and Windows PC Starting to Look a Lot Alike

August 19, 2015

Not so long ago, when talking about the Xbox Preview Program and the games contained therein, I expressed the idea that it was starting to look oddly like a roster of PC titles. As it turns out, my original projection wasn't so far off after all, and some are already saying that Xbox One's Phil Spencer is out to take out the distinctions between Xbox One and a Windows 10 gaming PC, a development we're already starting to see.

First we saw "The Long Dark" and "Elite: Dangerous" make the migration, but there were plenty of others to follow, including "Ark: Survival Evolved" and "We Happy Few." But there were others as well afoot, ranging from "Sheltered" to "Day Z," titles that were formerly seen on PC, but looked to make the jump. The title roster wasn't the only place to see this sort of thing, either, and for the last decade, Phil Spencer has been pushing to make the Xbox One and the Windows PC a lot more interchangeable.

Spencer runs Xbox, and has since 2014, but he's been making mention of Windows about as often as he has Xbox, by some reports. Indeed, some even suggest that he's no longer really the head of Xbox so much as he is the head of gaming at Microsoft.

Tagged: Games for Windows, Gamescom, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, PC game, Personal computer, Phil Spencer, PlayStation, Steam (software), Xbox : Related Tags: games, gaming, microsoft, windows, spencer, gamers

Catch the Leaked Fallout 4 Video Yet?

August 18, 2015

I think anyone who's been looking at the Fallout 4 situation figured it was only going to be a matter of time. The video being shown behind closed doors at Gamescom and, ostensibly, also at QuakeCon, has leaked, and is showing up in the strangest places.

Looking like it was shot on a potato--to use the common Internet parlance--the video first made an appearance on YouTube. It's not only rather poor-quality video, but it's also hidden behind the shoulders of other attendees. But after quick intervention from Bethesda got the video shut down, it made an appearance elsewhere, out at Pornhub.com.

Naturally, as is commonly the case with video a lot of people care about on YouTube, Bethesda's move to quash it had the half life of molten boron.

Tagged: Bethesda, Fallout (series), Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Forrest Gump, Gamescom, Maryland, PlayStation, QuakeCon, Twitter, YouTube : Related Tags: video, bethesda, still, leaked, going, fallout

No One Cares About the Indie Game? Don't Say That At PAX Prime.

August 17, 2015

With so much going on in the next couple months in terms of gaming--the Paris Games Week expo coming up, a host of releases on tap--it might be easy to overlook one of the newest major forces in gaming, the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) Prime event. Held out in Seattle, the home of the original PAX event, it's going to be a huge exhibition for games of all stripes. But for those who think that the independent game may have lost its luster in the face of all those big, shiny, triple-A releases, you can count that right out: the Indie Megabooth is making its return, and showing off a huge slate of titles.

This is actually the fourth appearance of the Megabooth, and contained therein will be over 70 different titles from independent developers worldwide. Nearly half of the games being shown are actually new to the Megabooth, and some are new period, making public debuts at the show.

Tagged: Action role-playing game, Adventure game, Bigfoot, British Columbia, Canada, First-person (video games), Penny Arcade Expo, Seattle, Tabletop game, Zip-line : Related Tags: music video, games, titles, video, gaming, those

YouTube Ready to Make a Move on Twitch?

August 12, 2015

An exciting little leak slipped out just recently, and based on that leak's information, by the time the kids go back to school, Twitch will have some newly-minted competition from no less a force in the market than YouTube itself.

The project is said to be called "YouTube Gaming," and while perhaps the least original name the project could have taken, the idea is still more than sufficiently clever. Not only will the channel feature content from the creative community--the raftload of Let's Play videos and the like--but will also offer up live streaming of e-sports events, as well as game reviews and similar content. Users will be able to browse a list of trending games, and there will even be a chat window said to be a parallel for Twitch's now infamous chat system.

Reports suggest that things could be changing from here, and Android users are reportedly currently able to give the system a test drive. So what's known of it so far may not reflect the final product.

This is actually pretty exciting news; we're looking at a competitor to Twitch, which is about the largest name in the game right now when it comes to e-sports streaming, that has the muscle and market power of YouTube. That could be a very big deal, and destabilize the market as it's known today.

Tagged: Android (operating system), Digital video recorder, Dota 2, Electronic sports, Google, Google Play, Let's Play (video gaming), Streaming media, Video game, YouTube : Related Tags: reports suggest, known today, youtube, market, twitch, known

So Who Won Gamescom 2015, Anyway?

August 11, 2015

The ink has dried on another Gamescom event, and with it and E3 now a memory and the year in gaming pretty much laid out before us, I like to turn my thoughts to the inevitable question: who won, anyway? While E3 gave me something of a nebulous winner--there was just too much goodness coming out on all sides to really declare a company the winner--Gamescom, I think, is more specific.

This year it was all about Microsoft.

Microsoft was flooding the show floor with impressive titles, and while it was hardly alone, Sony's seemingly tactical move to push back to the Paris Games Week instead may leave it in a better position at that show, but it may have had to concede Gamescom to win. Microsoft also gets something of an edge in PC gaming, because let's face it, most PCs these days run on Microsoft products. Any Windows game is a Microsoft game of sorts, and an Xbox One game is likewise.

There were some serious titles out there showing some impressive trailers and providing some release dates as well; once September 1 hits, it's going to be an absolute avalanche of top-flight titles hitting the grid, with only a couple weeks between each.

Tagged: Games for Windows - Live, Gamescom, Halo Wars, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Minecraft, PC game, Personal computer, Steam (software), Xbox : Related Tags: paris games, microsoft, gamescom, titles, right, while

20 Million Players, Two Billion Hours: Destiny

August 10, 2015

Activision's quarterly investor call offered up one major surprise: word about the performance of one of its newest titles, "Destiny". The word, meanwhile, seems to be "popular", and that's a point backed up with the newest numbers.

The word from the investor call says that, so far, the game has fully 20 million players, who have put in a cumulative average of two billion hours of gameplay. That, no matter how you slice it, is a huge number, and one that proves that Destiny's easily one of the biggest games around. Gamers have logged an average of 100 hours of play per person.

What's more, the game won't be just resting on its laurels, either.

Tagged: Bungie, Destiny (video game), Game Informer, Game of Thrones (TV series), Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Nathan Drake (character), Nolan North, Peter Dinklage, Video game, Voice acting : Related Tags: billion hours, million players, hours destiny, hours, destiny, logged

Gamescom 2015: Microsoft's New Xbox Preview Program Titles

August 5, 2015

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting hearing anything about the Xbox Preview Program out of Gamescom, but the program bringing early-stage release titles to users is making a bit of headway, adding two new titles set to come out in the next few months.

The first of these is coming this winter--which means it might end up seguing into 2016--and is the survival experience par excellence "Ark: Survival Evolved." Meanwhile, sometime this holiday season--which pretty much means before 2016 hits--will be the Kickstarter-funded "We Happy Few," a game described as "a game of paranoia and survival."

I've seen enough Let's Play videos of "Ark: Survival Evolved" to be excited about this one. It looks like nothing so much as a 3D "Minecraft" with a load of weapons--even some guns--and the ability make stuff, roam the world, and tame dinosaurs.

"We Happy Few," meanwhile, I'd never even heard of before this announcement. That was a surprise for me, and the trailer that came out was even more so.

Tagged: Digital video recorder, Gamescom, Germany, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, News conference, PC game, PlayStation, Sony, Xbox : Related Tags: preview program, survival evolved, program, titles, preview, survival

Gamescom 2015: It's a Bigger Event Than You Think

August 4, 2015

Gamescom isn't exactly a big name for a lot of people; it's certainly no E3, and it's even not quite a match for the Penny Arcade Expo. But this German game trade show is regarded as one of the biggest events of the year, and with good reason.

No matter what your gaming system of choice is--whether you take a side in the console wars, believe Nintendo still has a chance to take it all, or count yourself as part of the Glorious PC Master Race--you've got a lot to look forward to. In fact, one recent listing found out at IGN suggests fully 65 games making some kind of appearance at the show,with quite a few to get playable versions on the show floor.

First, Nintendo's actually going to have a fair crop of games on hand here. "Chibi-Robo!

Tagged: 3D printing, Animal Crossing, Bionics, Chibi-Robo!, Mario Kart, Nintendo, Reddit, Super Smash Bros., Wii U, YouTube : Related Tags: gamescom, exclusives, making, appearance, games, believe

Twitch Drops its Flash Viewer for HTML5

August 3, 2015

You might have heard recently that Mozilla and Google actually dropped support for Flash from their Firefox and Chrome browsers. This isn't great news for Flash, which had already been taking it on the chin for some time as far back as when Steve Jobs gave it a metaphorical working-over. But Twitch has joined a host of other firms pulling support for Flash and putting that support behind HTML5 instead.

Twitch, owned by Amazon, is rolling out controls with an HTML5 basis on what's described as a gradual basis. Right now, it's mostly focused on the video player's controls, but it's likely to carry on from there.

Tagged: Adobe Flash, Adobe Systems, Facebook, Firefox, Google, Mozilla, Steve Jobs, Twitter, Web standards, YouTube : Related Tags: support flash, pulling support, mozilla google, flash, twitch, likely

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