Wearable technology such as Google Glass, Nike+ FuelBand and the reported Apple iWatch will not only enhance consumers' lives, but will also provide a new source of commercially exploitable data. In an interview with Computing, Rackspace ...
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company delivering a new generation of APM, has released PureStack Technology. Compuware believes it is the first solution to finally expose how IT infrastructure conditions impede the ...
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Cisco has raised the stakes in its fight against Microsoft's $8.5bn (£5.3bn) acquisition of Skype, claiming that European Union regulators who approved the deal have effectively created a monopoly in internet voice communications. ...
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Enterprises must innovate and adapt to the emerging trends, or be left behind. This was the message imparted by IT solutions provider Dell during the Philippine leg of its Solutions Tour 2013. The company said that cloud computing and ...
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CIO - That itch in your throat and those watery eyes? Merck, which makes the allergy pill Claritin, anticipated your hay fever and--a year ago--started making plans to capitalize on it. With a subscription to specialized weather forecasts, ...
The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
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BSkyB was been warned by the BBC that it could soon be facing charges to carry BBC television signals across its networks, after retransmission fee talks between the two companies broke down. Currently, BSkyB charges the BBC and other ...
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The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
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Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app. That's one of the tools the world's largest retailer plans to use to improve the in-store shopping ...
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Dannon, a subsidiary of French food company Groupe Danone and a leading yogurt producer in the US, is using IBM cloud-based predictive analytics to ensure the delivery of the correct product mix at the right time to satifsy customers in the ...
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Cardinal Health, a healthcare services company, has short-listed Datameer for healthcare data discovery, to help improve the lives of its customer's patients. Under the deal, Datameer will provide self-service tools required for ...
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Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers. SAP will introduce a ...
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Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers. SAP will introduce a ...
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GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) are collaborating to enable bar code scanning features built directly into mobile devices. This will make it ...
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