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Featured Articles » Google Selling Boston Dynamics: Robotics Ambitions Abandoned? Robotics was the hot topic on many lips for a long time, but now there's some evidence that the market is in remission as Google was recently spotted poised to sell Boston Dynamics, makers of the Big Dog robot line. While the concept was getting huge worldwide attention, Google reportedly had some doubts as to just how marketable this product line really was. » Nokia Addresses 100G Transport with Enhanced Photonic Switches Expansion of Nokia 1830 photonic service switch portfolio highlights growing need for automation, elasticity and 100G and higher speeds. Sponsored by: IoT Evolution Expo - July 11 - 14, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada » Apple Event: Apple Is Transitioning Into a Solutions Company Apple is changing into a firm more focused on solutions which should allow them to dovetail better with both IBM and Cisco as they flesh out those partnerships. But I think the thing to watch is what Apple eventually does in Healthcare and business because this will reflect the growth markets for the company and the hardware, while still important, will increasingly become just another part of the solution not the main focus of the company. » Amazon Looks to Patent 'Pay by Selfie' Technology Call it a mobile payments idea for the Kardashian age: why not use selfies for payment processing? Amazon thinks it's the way to go: The e-tailer is looking to patent the ability to authenticate a payment using a selfie. » GM, Ford Make Moves to Fast-Lane Self-Driving Cars And indeed, car manufacturers obviously represent the fastest path to rollouts (no pun intended) at scale, especially if the conversion technology works as advertised. But other first-movers are pushing the market into higher gear as well, including Tesla, Lyft rival Uber and Google. Google's cars, with safety drivers aboard, are now self-driving a combined 10,000 miles per week, which is about what a typical American adult drives in a year. It expects its driverless cars to hit the road commercially in about five to 10 years. GM could leapfrog rivals to be commercial in two to three years. » AMD Gets Serious About Virtual Reality For years at the Game Developer's Conference, AMD's event looked like a visit to your poor relatives. In the midst of huge presentations by AMD's competitors they'd typically have a small, dingy room where they could show their wares. Well this year was massively different, AMD came to play and they are clearly excited about riding the VR wave. With a host of who's who supporters on stage, AMD is moving to be the player expected to cause a massive game revolution. Featured Resources » Colocation: The Essential Buyer's Guide » Risk to Consumers, Public Safety and National Security » The New Help Desk: TeamSupport Enables Businesses to Better Understand Their Customers » The Power of One - Vodafone Pulls It All Together to Make M2M Work Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here    Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. FOLLOW TECHZONE360   FEATURED MAGAZINES FEATURED EVENTS

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