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Smart Columbus releases operating system to solve transportation challenges

Smart Columbus—a partnership of businesses, local governments and research groups that oversees the city’s work on the federal Smart Cities grant—is introducing the initial version of a computer operating system meant to address a variety of transportation-related challenges in the city of Columbus this week. The system is called the Smart

Why Social Media Discretion Is Increasingly Important to Your Brand

Pre-internet, the extent to which we knew about each other was the extent to which we volunteered information about ourselves. We generally kept our business to ourselves, and we were happy in our ignorance. We had a work life and, at the end of a long day, we

Survey: Solar Companies Want Software to Speed Growth, Manage Utility Rates

While it may seem niche, the world of solar software is becoming larger and more diverse by the minute. According to Paul Grana, co-founder of software firm Folsom Labs, the general trend in the solar software space is toward fragmentation. “There are literally thousands of apps just

7 Best YouTube channels to learn web development & designing

Need to learn web design and development? No worries, there are millions of tutorials, and videos available on YouTube for people to learn new skills or to pursue any new course. Anyone who has a desire to learn something new will never be disappointed. And the best

25+ Web Resources to Help You Build Your Projects

This article was created in partnership with Mekanism. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The competitiveness between web designers and developers has reached a crescendo. There are several ways to beat your competition. One is to have more knowledge and become an expert. Another

Kansas City Southern to upgrade railroad operating system

Transportation holding company Kansas City Southern (KCS) in the US has partnered with CloudMoyo (CM) to modernise its Management Control System (MCS), which operates the city’s railroads. Following the partnership, KCS will deploy the CloudMoyo Rail Transportation Management (CRTM) system, which was developed on the CloudMoyo Transportation

Huawei developing its own mobile operating system to reduce its dependancy on Android

Recent media reports suggest that Huawei is developing its own proprietary operating system for mobile devices. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer seems to have been working on this OS since as early as 2012. South China Post has suggested that the plan to develop a new OS is a backup

Pakistani man’s maiden trip to Europe on foreign airline is the funniest thing on internet right now

Friends of a Pakistani lawyer recently put up a banner congratulating him for his maiden  trip to Europe, giving the netizens a good reason to chuckle. The picture of the banner is being circulated on the internet in Pakistan with social media users sharing it with hilarious

Qualcomm to depose Apple services chief Eddy Cue

Qualcomm Inc can depose Apple Inc’s services chief Eddy Cue in addition to Chief Executive Tim Cook, a magistrate judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of California has ruled, part of the chipmaker’s effort to determine whether Appleworked with Samsung to focus regulatory scrutiny on Qualcomm. The access

Huawei working on alternative to Android operating system

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies is working on its own proprietary Operating System (OS) since 2012 after a US investigation into the company, the media reported. The company, which is also the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, would ditch Google’s Android platform amid reports that it is