ASAP IT Technology Blog

In their efforts to revitalize its handset business, Lenovo Group has decided that its Motorola Mobility division will take over the company’s smartphone development as well as manufacturing. This reorganization is due to the company’s hopes to cut costs while enabling the Chinese company to produce better products. Chen Xudong, the head of Lenovo’s mobile business group, has said in an open letter that this move will help provide for better products by taking the best technology and resources from both Lenovo and Motorola Mobility. Read more >>

Rambus Inc. has taken the move to start selling semiconductor chips under its own brand as part of its newly devoted and concentrated effort at reducing the company’s dependence on income from litigation to defend its patents. Rambus is currently working on shipping samples of the chips to potential customers in order to gauge the market. Read more >>

On August 10, 2015, Google announced that they are restructuring their business so that they are under the umbrella of new parent company Alphabet. This is big news but don’t worry, the Google search engine will still exist. Read more >>

IBM Watson Group announced a $1 billion deal last week to acquire Merge Healthcare Inc. Merge Healthcare sells systems that help doctors store and access medical images, an essential step to eventually applying artificial intelligence to medicine. Merge Healthcare services is used by over 7,500 hospitals and clinics across the nation. Read more >>

Adobe Systems has updated its Flash media player to patch a vulnerability that hackers were exploiting after attack code leaked from the devastating Hacking Team breach. Adobe is creating a fix for a critical vulnerability after a team of hackers broke into the surveillance firm Hacking Team’s systems. The vulnerability affecting Flash Player allowed for hackers to hack into servers belonging to Hacking Team which was infiltrated this past weekend. The attack was sophisticated and is estimated to have taken only days or weeks to complete. Over 400 gigabytes of corporate data was stolen. Read more >>