Google released two new internally authored technologies this week that could help ease the burdens of Web developers. One is a tool for spotting memory leaks in JavaScript code, and the other is a library written in Dart for accessing ...
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Oracle and Google are at loggerheads over some $4 million in court costs Google wants Oracle to pay in connection with its patent and copyright lawsuit over the Android mobile OS. Earlier this month, Google demanded that amount from ...
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Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has been finalized, less than a month after the companies announced the cash deal. Yammer will become part of Microsoft's Office Division, which is led by its president, Kurt DelBene. Yammer ...
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SAP has made a series of announcements defining itself as a major player in the enterprise social software market with a superior approach to rivals such as Salesforce.com. A new platform called SAP Jam, now generally available, combines ...
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Microsoft has launched Bing Fund, an angel fund with an incubator program that will make Microsoft resources available to startups and potentially provide it with acquisition targets in the future, Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday. ...
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The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitter has laid out for itself to make money and keep growing its service. The stricter ...
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Microsoft has given a makeover to its SkyDrive cloud storage service, including a new Web interface, as well as improvements to its desktop applications and developer API, the company announced on Tuesday. It's not surprising that ...
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Samsung Electronics asked a court in California to compel Apple to produce a copy of its settlement and patent license agreement with HTC,claiming the document is relevant to its own patent dispute with Apple. Apple's willingness to ...
Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
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Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first model of which is now shipping to customers, the company said on Monday. Chips in the Xeon Phi range, ...
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Google has claimed victory in one of the central arguments in its high-profile court battle with Oracle. In August 2010, Oracle sued Google, claiming Android infringed its intellectual property rights by Google illegally copying Java in ...
Current application portfolios are preventing banks from making the transformation they need ensure customer retention, says analyst Gartner, which urged them to focus more on “APIs and apps” to solve the problem. “The ...
Orange Digital, the subsidiary of Orange that manages digital services for EE, had a legacy physical infrastructure that was inadequate to offer scalability at low costs. Its IT team has adopted cloud services, not just for high ...
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Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
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IDG News Service-Verizon Wireless is closing down its app store by January next year,it said in a notice on its developer community portal. The operator said it will start removing in January the Verizon Apps application from all ...
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