The vendor's new Cloud Consumption as a Service offering monitors the use of public cloud services by company employees. Read more »
The time has come. Today, Microsoft stops supporting older versions of Internet Explorer, potentially leaving many small businesses at risk. Read more »
The company upgrades its cloud-based disaster recovery offering for virtualized environments powered by VMware. Read more »
The deal is part of a larger effort by Citrix to streamline operations that includes spinning out its GoTo online meeting business. Read more »
Google claims that a spec-to-spec comparison shows its prices are between 15 and 41 percent lower than those of Amazon Web Services. Read more »
Free Basics, previously known as Internet.org, offers limited Internet access to users who cannot afford a broadband connection or smartphone data plan. Read more »
The new year means new updates to Microsoft's blockchain effort, including a larger roster of Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service supporters. Read more »
One of the most accurate yet still practical representation of material appearance is the Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF). The BTF can be viewed as an extension of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)... Read more »
This paper introduces the Laplacian spectral distances, as a function that resembles the usual distance map, but exhibits properties (e.g. smoothness, locality, invariance to shape transformations) that make them useful to processing... Read more »
Various processing algorithms on point set surfaces rely on consistently oriented normals (e.g. Poisson surface reconstruction). While several approaches exist for the calculation of normal directions, in most cases, their orientation has... Read more »