Google, BMW and Gap Moving into Augmented Reality Shopping

📅 January 9, 2017 - A real world application of Google's ambitious virtual reality effort will allow shoppers to see what they can get without stepping outside their home. Recently, Google announced partnerships with Gap and BMW for the 3D-scanning project named Tango.

The technology uses cameras and sensors to create digital images in physical space. It's similar to the mobile game Pokemon Go. It was announced at the CES show in Las Vegas and Google hinted at even broader ambitions for this mapping technology.

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📅 Jan 9, 2017 - OVH Stepping into the U.K. Market with Three Data Centers - OVH, a French hosting and cloud provider, recently announced they are stepping into the U.K. market with three data centers. They launched the first of three data centers in the suburbs of London.

The company is most-known for the headlines they made back in 2010. They are a Roubaix-based company and in 2010, OVH agreed to host WikiLeaks after Amazon chickened out due to U.S. government pressure.

Currently, OVH is in the middle of expanding across the globe after receiving a large funding round, which closed in 2016. Along with the U.K. market, the company has launched data centers in Poland, Singapore and Australia, recently. They also have plans to step into the U.S. market with a data

📅 Jan 6, 2017 - India Receiving Website Building and Google Training for SMBs - Google recently announced the launching of training for 51 million small and medium-sized businesses in India. This is called the Digital Unlocked and it was announced on Wednesday at an event held in New Delhi.

The Digital Unlocked website will provide 90 training videos with 23 total digital marketing topics covered. About 5,000 workshops will be held throughout 40 different Indian cities across the next 3 years, as well.

Since less than one-third of the small businesses found in India have any type of web presence, Google believes they can make a difference. The training will help teach small and medium-sized businesses how to create, maintain and market a website.

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📅 Jan 5, 2017 - GoDaddy and Jonas Valanciunas Teaming Up to Reach Small Businesses - Jonas Valanciunas of the Toronto Raptors is teaming up with GoDaddy to create a new campaign aimed at reaching Canadian Small Businesses. The campaign will launch a website called IttyBittyBallers.ca, which will sell 3D figurines and was created by Jonas using the GoDaddy professional development tools.

While this is not a real business and the money made from any figurine sales will go to the MLSE Foundation, the goal is to show how easy it is for small businesses to create a website through GoDaddy. There will also be an Itty Bitty Ballers Contest for Small Businesses, which will provide $5,000 in cash for the winner, along with $2,500 in GoDaddy services.

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📅 Jan 9, 2017 - Revenues from Cloud Vendors Hit $148 Billion in 2016 - While many were ready to move on to 2017, the cloud vendors are hoping for a repeat. With cloud vendor revenues reaching $148 billion, according to the Synergy Research Group Report, the industry has grown by 25%. The report also showed that IaaS and PaaS grew the most with about 53% growth over 2016.

Microsoft and AWS led the way in IaaS and Paas with Rackspace and IBM leading the way in hosted private cloud infrastructure. Salesforce and Microsoft topped the list for enterprise SaaS. ...

📅 Jan 9, 2017 - Microsoft Explores Idea of Underwater Data Center Reef - In 2015, Microsoft announced they were working with an idea to have data centers underwater. One of the ideas from this experiment, known as Project Natick, was for the center's housing enclosure to double as an artificial reef to provide marine life additional habitat.

Since the experiment proved successful, Microsoft has filed a patent application for the Artificial Reef Datacenter. As well as providing marine life a home, the underwater data center will utilize the ocean water as it's cooling system. The center will also be able to detect intruders.

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📅 Jan 9, 2017 - BitCasa Shuts Down - Bitcase, the cloud storage firm has announced they are shutting down. The company's CEO Brian Taptich confirmed the announcement.

“Bitcasa is no more, and this is not bad news. Thanks to the very hard work, generosity and persistence of a number of folks – from employees to investors and advisors – Bitcasa and its platform have become a part of something much, much bigger.

We have no doubt that Bitcasa has found the right home to fulfill a mission that has driven the company from its 2011 beginnings – to eliminate the storage and computing limitations of your connected devices, however small, in the most secure and efficient way possible. We remain optimistic that, before long (and though