Extron Electronics introduces two new DisplayPort SM "Show Me" Cables for the company's popular TeamWork Collaboration System.

The cables, available with full-size or mini DisplayPort input connectors, actively convert DisplayPort signals to HDMI for use with TeamWork-compatible digital switchers. The cables meet Section 508 accessibility standards and are certified for use with Extron Cable Cubby enclosures.

To simplify the process of planning, configuring, and ordering custom TeamWork systems, the new TeamWork System Builder is now available online. The TeamWork System Builder allows users to select from a wide range of Extron switchers, control processors, and cable management enclosures or other architectural connectivity to create a system that fits precise collaboration requirements, for up to eight users. Read more...

Wearable electronics are supposed to be the IT industry's new hotness, but few such devices appear to be worth, well, wearing. One of these might be a futuristic smart contact lens able to measure glucose levels.

A project hailing from Google's mysterious "X" lab, the contact lens combines a tiny wireless chip and a miniature glucose sensor inside two layers of soft material and measures glucose levels in tears. The lab is working on prototypes able to generate one reading per seconds, as well as the possible integration of tiny LEDs that light up if the wearer becomes hypoglycemic.

During his CES 2014 Cisco keynote CEO John Chambers says the Internet of Everything (IoE) represents an global opportunity worth $19 trillion between public and private sectors, with private sector "value at stake" of $14.4tr.

"If you were to take away only one number from today, think $19 trillion," Chambers says. "This is where I get the attention of CEOs, governments and business leaders."

According to Cisco the IoE can help governments "create value by saving money, improving productivity, generating new revenue and enhancing citizen benefits." How so? One example the company gives is internet-enabled streetlights, which could potentially cut the $13 billion a year Europe spends on street light by 70-80%.

Oracle posts better-than-expected results for fiscal Q2 2014 as it beats Wall Street expectations with revenues worth $9.3 billion, up 2% from the previous year.

The software giant sees new software license and cloud subscription revenues dropping by -1% Y-o-Y to $2.4bn. Meanwhile, in a neat demonstration of how much it depends on current, rather than new, customers license update and product support revenues grow by 6% Y-o-Y to $4.5bn.

Hardware systems (including hardware systems products and support) revenues remain flat at $1.3bn, with hardware systems product revenues dropping by -3% Y-o-Y to $714m.

Bloomberg reports Google considers designing own server processors based on ARM technology-- potential bad news to Intel, since it makes an estimated 4.3% of revenues from the selling of processors to the search giant.

According an anonymous source with "knowledge of the matter" own hardware would improve the management of hardware-software interactions, as well as allow the addition of custom IP and accelerators. However the source says the company has made no decisions on the matter, and plans might change.

“We are actively engaged in designing the world’s best infrastructure,” a Google spokesperson tells Bloomberg in reply to the report. “This includes both hardware design (at all levels) and software design.”

Yahoo, still searching for relevancy in today’s internet, buys up the team behind the concert live streaming platform Evntlive.

One of many startups out there that want to reinvent live music events, Evntlive wanted fans to engage with live music online by creating an interactive, virtual venue. Since launching a beta service in April 2013, they have live streamed hundreds of performances from artists and festivals to fans all over the world.

This acquisition means the Evntlive team will join Yahoo Video, but the Evntlive service will Read more...