Ericsson and SAP have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based M2M solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg announced at Mobile World Congress today. The solutions ...
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What do we mean by “the internet of things” and why is it becoming so important to software design, writes Frank Schirrmeister of Cadence Design Systems As we approach the Embedded World exhibition and conference in Nuremberg ...
IBM's Watson supercomputer has gone from game show king to doctor's office helper. You may recall the epic man vs. machine battle two years ago in which the supercomputer beat former champions on the show Jeopardy. Well, now there's a ...
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New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
RSA last week launched its Security Analytics solution in the UAE, promising to leverage big data in order to provide the visibility and context required to help defend against advanced security threats. The new Security Analytics fuses ...
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After much time spent negotiating with investors who failed to find a rescue plan for integrator and reseller 2e2, the firm entered administration, and now its customers are looking to jump ship. Hundreds of jobs on the line as 2e2 ...
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RSA has unveiled a new tool designed to let enterprises detect security threats more quickly than current technologies permit by combining big data management and analytics approaches with traditional network monitoring and threat ...
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Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
VMware has bucked recent hiring trends in the tech sector by announcing 900 job losses, despite unveiling a three per cent rise in 2012 income to $746m (£475m), while revenue rose 22 per cent to $4.61bn (£2.94bn). The ...
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Ofcom has announced that the first round of bidding for 4G spectrum has begun and expects operators to rollout services by this spring. CBR rounds of expert opinions on the auction, 4G services and the transition from 3G to LTE. Lyn ...
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Micron today announced it is shipping its highest endurance, multi-level cell (MLC) enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) for servers, P400m, which can sustain 10 full drive writes per day for five years, the company said. The P400m ...
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Flash storage vendor Violin Memory has acquired Gridiron Systems for an undisclosed sum and plans to use the company's application acceleration smarts with its flash arrays. Gridiron's operations units have already been integrated into ...
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Says they address 'advanced' malware threats Cybersecurity software and appliance vendor Sourcefire announced it has expanded its malware protection offerings to include new Incident Response Professional Services that it says assist ...
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CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
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Network World - SANTA CLARA -- At this week's Fall 2012 DEMO conference, big data was in a category by itself - and for good reason. In an event typically dominated by consumer-facing technologies, DEMO organizers created a separate panel ...
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