Peter Sayer
Senior Editor
Peter Sayer covers enterprise applications for CIO.com.
SAP wants to embrace all your data stores with Data Hub
If data warehouses are for tidiness freaks -- information packaged into neat inferences, sorted and stacked, the rest discarded -- and data lakes are for hoarders -- tip everything in, you never know what might be useful -- then SAP's...
SAP buys Gigya to boost customer identity access management offering
SAP is giving its business software users a new way to track their customers, with the acquisition of customer identity management specialist Gigya.
Imagination wants to add intelligence to smartphone chips
Specialized hardware needed to accelerate machine learning algorithms is moving out of the data center and into high-end mobile phones. Soon it could be in everyone's pocket, if chip designer Imagination Technologies has its way.
Google tightens grip on Android hardware with HTC deal
Google is buying its way back into the smartphone business, almost four years after selling its stake in Motorola Mobility to Lenovo.
Here's how to fix the future of the internet, suggests ISOC
From smart but sulky light bulbs to shopping malls that filter potential clients the way we filter spam, ISOC has imagined how the future of the internet might take a wrong turn, and makes recommendations for how we can set things...
Google appeals $2.9 billion EU antitrust fine
Google has decided to appeal the record-breaking fine imposed on it by the European Union's highest antitrust authority in July.
Google invites private networks into its cloud
Google is offering enterprises a new way to build hybrid infrastructure, with a service that extends corporate networks into its cloud platform.
Amazon opens competition for new headquarters location
Amazon.com is inviting North American cities to bid to host its second headquarters
Intel gets second chance to appeal $1.25B antitrust fine
The European Union's highest court has given Intel another chance to appeal a massive fine imposed in a 2009 antitrust ruling.
This drone could help inspect flooded infrastructure
A drone on show at IFA in Berlin would need no authorization from the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority to play its part in relief efforts in Houston, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey.
How to listen to music safely on a bike
Wearing headphones while cycling can be dangerous, even illegal. Instead, you can use a Bluetooth bicycle helmet or wearable speaker to listen to music or traffic directions safely while riding.
Motorola X4: Four times the Bluetooth audio
Lenovo's new Motorola X4 smartphone is half the price of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S8, but does at least one thing twice as well: stream audio to multiple Bluetooth speakers or headphones.
Neato Robotics adds more smarts to its vacuum cleaners
Neato Robotics has doubled the storage in its latest robot vacuum cleaner, the Botvac D7 Connected, and given owners new ways to interact with it.
UK seeks to limit Brexit effect on personal data flows
With a new round of Brexit negotiations beginning Monday, the U.K. is seeking to ensure that businesses sending personal information to or through the UK are not left stranded when the country leaves the EU.
IBM wants to make blockchain good enough to eat
After addressing information security in its cloud-based, permissioned blockchain, IBM is now turning to food security.
Symantec sells its problem SSL unit to DigiCert for $1B
Symantec has found a way to make a dispute with Google over the validity of its TLS and SSL website certificates go away -- and get paid almost US$1 billion in the process.
EU court must rule how forgetful Google should be
Just how forgetful must Google be when applying the "right to be forgotten" created by a 2014 European Union court ruling? That's the question the court that made the original decision must now answer, in a case pitting Google against...
Qualcomm opens European front in patent war with Apple
Qualcomm has asked two German courts to suspend sales of iPhones, alleging they infringe on its patents, while four Apple contractors from which Qualcomm had sought patent license fees have filed antitrust complaints against the chip...
Bluetooth devices could soon have mesh networking capabilities
Bluetooth is about to get some significant new mesh networking capabilities -- and the best bit is, you may not need new hardware to benefit from them.