Alleged assault appears to have arisen from a desire to not be videotaped. Mobile World Congress: 5 Hot Gadgets (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) A woman says she was assaulted for wearing Google Glass at a San Francisco bar on Friday evening, the most recent in a chain of confrontations that belie the city’s longstanding reputation for tolerance. On her Facebook page, Sarah Slocum, contributing editor at social news site Newsdad and resident of San Mateo, Calif., wrote that she was verbally and physically assaulted and robbed “as a result of some wanker Google Glass haters.” She claims one among her assailants, a guy, grabbed her Glass from her face and ran outside and that his friends stole her purse, wallet, and cellphone. She says she recovered her Glass but has not found her other possessions. A San Francisco Police Department spokesman confirmed that a police report in regards to the incident have been filed and is under investigation. The girl got into... Read More »

IBM moves flash storage contained in the box — 12.8 TB of it — to work alongside RAM and cut data movement latencies. IBM Predicts Next 5 Life-Changing Tech Innovations (Click image for larger view.) IBM has unveiled what it calls its next generation of cloud and massive data servers, the X6 series. The x86-based line will run Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processor in four- and 8-way configurations and should be full of flash memory. IBM has used flash or solid-state drives as adjuncts to spinning disks and RAID arrays outside the server. However, now it has migrated flash contained in the server case. To take action, it needed to redesign flash memory sticks to slot into the random access memory’s dual-inline memory slots on a server’s motherboard. It then designed motherboards with room for 12.8 TB of flash, in addition to 6 TB to twelve TB of RAM. That’s a primary for IBM and a primary for the industry, IBM spokesmen said. By redesigning... Read More »

Microsoft’s Surface 2 is a huge improvement, but it is not for everybody. I’ve been using Microsoft’s Surface 2 for just about a month, and it improves in literally every far more than its misbegotten predecessor, the outside RT. That isn’t necessarily saying much, given the low bar set by the unique, however the Surface 2 is essentially a beautiful satisfying device. I’m consequently disappointed that i will not wholeheartedly recommend the skin 2. It is a terrific device for specific groups of users, but given its cost and limitations, a lot of people it will likely be better served by other options. The Surface 2 is fun to apply, but with a $449 base price, it would be too compromised for many users. Still, progress is progress. The skin RT, which Microsoft still sells for $349, doesn’t warrant even a certified endorsement — its sales had been awful for a reason. Windows RT 8.1 adds some polish to the device’s OS, however the RT... Read More »

Oracle joins the cloud-integration party late, but says its wizard-driven SOA Suite will appeal where on-premises apps prevail. Oracle introduced the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com on Thursday, vowing that it won’t be too little, too late on the subject of cloud application integration. Oracle says its SOA Suite have been used to construct one-off, Web-services integrations into cloud-based applications for years. However the Adapter for Salesforce.com is the primary of many packaged integrations that the seller says will broaden its choice of greater than 300 pre-built adapters heretofore fascinated about on-premises application integration. “We’re making things easier so as opposed to having to read documentation and work out which APIs to name, we package all of it in a graphical, wizard-driven adapter,” Demed L’Her, VP of product management for Oracle integration products, said in an interview with InformationWeek. [Want more on cloud integration? Read Informatica Adds Integration Options As Cloud Demand Multiplies.] The Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com works with the Oracle SOA Suite wizard-based... Read More »