Intel, whose chips have long gone into PCs, servers and mobile devices, has begun chasing the market for the so-called “Internet of things” with new low-power chips and software for connected devices and data-gathering ...
French Retail Group selects Oracle to support commerce growth. News Facts - Groupe ERAM, a 1.7 billion Euros French group, has selected Oracle Commerce to create a multi-site ecommerce platform for its shoes and apparel brands. -With ...
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If the community edition of the JBoss enterprise Java application server could no longer be called JBoss,what other name would you choose?JOpen?JWorker?JFree?JMinion?JBoss community users get to decide. Red Hat is planning to change the ...
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Few parts of the world house data centres that require air conditioning, and operators need to "push the envelope a little harder" to stop using it. This is the view fo Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain at ...
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CyanogenMod, an open source alternative operating system built on top of Google Android, looks set to become an operating system in its own right after raising $7m (£4.3m) in funding. The smartphone operating system "mod" has ...
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Current proprietary software models are not fit for purpose as companies increasingly enter the cloud, IT bosses from Channel 4, accounting software firm Sage and Investec Bank have agreed. Speaking on a customer panel at Amazon's AWS ...
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Systems giant IBM is to open its wallet and write out another $1bn cheque to support the development of open source operating system Linux in an era of cloud computing and big data. The investment was announced at LinuxCon North America ...
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Swedish online music streaming service Spotify is to work with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks as it looks to further personalise its services and improve its analytics. An early adopter of the Apache Hadoop data storage and processing ...
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Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
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Rovio, the Finnish studio behind the popular Angry Birds computer game, has deployed Riak, the open source NoSQL database from Basho Technologies, to aid scalability and management of data volumes from its games and animated Angry Birds ...
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Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
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Intel’s dominance of the chip market is starting to wane as PC shipments slump and smartphone and tablet adoption grows, but the manufacturer will try to prove it can make fast and power-efficient processors for mobile devices at its ...
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Google's Android will command 90 per cent of the smartphone operating system market in the next five to 10 years, according to Jon ‘Maddog' Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT ...
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Microsoft's acquisition of Finnish firm Nokia's mobile phone business and patents is a bad piece of business, according to Jon "Maddog" Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT professionals that ...
Samsung Knox smartphones will include mobile security software from Lookout to protect business users from mobile threats, the San Francisco company said Tuesday. The deal is part of Lookout's plan to build and offer security products for ...
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