The first two of 7,500 Link kiosks are set to become available Jan. 5, and will deliver free gigabit-speed WiFi signals up to 400 feet away.
New York City is reportedly set to begin replacing its aging pay phone booths with a network of kiosks that will provide free high-speed Internet, phone and cell phone charging services to residents in the city’s five boroughs.
Parrot showed off a fixed-wing, hand-launchable “Disco” drone that can fly for up to 45 minutes at up to 50 mph, and offers a new autopilot mode. Just two months after launching its second generation, Linux-based BeBop 2 quadcopter, claimed to offer a groundbreaking 25 minutes of flight time, Parrot showed off a fixed-wing “Disco” UAV claimed to almost double that with 45 minute battery life.
Google’s planned mobile operating system, which has been referred to as Android N, will leverage OpenJDK APIs rather than Google’s own Java implementation alone. The move has been praised as good for Java overall and might help the company in its ongoing legal battle with Oracle.
Oracle has griped that Android violates Java copyrights and patents. OpenJDK provides an accessible open source version of Java.
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Many IT initiatives require multiple internal teams, external consultants, and hardware and software companies. Here’s how to assemble and manage a winning coalition.
In all but the simplest projects, multiple parties are generally required to get the job done. This may be a straightforward arrangement, where one team provisions hardware and another does software configuration, or it may be a large team spanning a half-dozen companies and a similar number of internal teams. For the latter scenario, establishing roles and monitoring the various teams can be a project in itself…
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