Business

​The Alexa voice assistant seems to be pretty much everywhere these days – in Amazon's own Bluetooth speakers, living inside fancy lamps, or helping smartphone users cope with their busy lives. Now the company's business arm has unveiled plans to get Alexa into the workplace.​

​Earlier this year, Western Digital's HGST business arm announced a 12 TB hard drive aimed at businesses and data centers. Now the company has managed to add another 2 terabytes of storage space into a single drive unit for the launch of the Ultrastar Hs14 enterprise-class HDD.​

Hewlett-Packard's fourth generation Z workstations are aimed squarely at design and productivity professionals, with its pack leader, the Z8 G4 desktop computer, claimed to be the most powerful desktop workstation in the world.​

Wheelys, the company that introduced the 24-hour, app-controlled, unmanned convenience store, has now added mobility to the concept. Designed to travel autonomously to various locations, the Moby concept aims to bring retail shopping via smart technology directly to the customer.

​Organizing an office full of people on a project can be tough, and it’s even more chaotic in the modern workforce, when that group can be meeting from anywhere in the world. To try to bring that to order, Cisco is pitching the Spark Board to use the cloud to replicate visual brainstorming sessions.

​​The cross-platform collaboration tool Slack just announced a new way that it will organize communication. The Threads feature, rolling out over the next few days, allows users to group related messages without clogging up an entire communication channel.​

​Smart glasses once seemed like a gadget our future selves wouldn’t be able to go without, but they’ve mostly retreated from the public eye. Now Lenovo has set its sights on the augmented reality eyewear arena, with a business customer-focused pair of smart specs it calls New Glass C200.

For casual drone pilots and expert racers, the International Drone Expo (IDE) in Los Angeles, California, next weekend will be the place to find top racing and business applications, and companies serving the growing drone industry.

Mention virtual reality ("VR") and you’ll likely elicit one of two responses: either utmost enthusiasm and awareness, or something along the lines of Homer Simpson yelling “Neeeeerd!” But VR deserves to occupy a more substantive niche on the mainstream public radar, and here’s why.

WorldViz, a behind-the-scenes virtual reality company that’s been working on large-scale VR solutions for enterprise and industry, just announced its new platform for business communication. The so-called project “Skofield” allows remote users to make cross-platform presentations in VR.

Google has announced its latest entry into the hardware market: Jamboard, a “digital whiteboard” and physical extension of the G Suite of business software.

From today, employees everywhere finally have a good reason to spend all day using Facebook. The social network has rolled out Workplace, a productivity platform for businesses aimed at helping employees to "connect, communicate and collaborate."