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Baidu Secures Approval to Test Autonomous Driving Vehicles in Beijing
Mar 26, 2018Chinese multinational technology firm Baidu has secured first batch of licenses to carry out road tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing. At the launch ceremony today, five cars powered by Apollo, the open autonomous driving platform by ...
Tags: Baidu, Autonomous Driving Vehicles
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Alibaba Launched a Cloud Service in Japan and Tencent Fire Overseas
Dec 16, 2016After the battle in a number of areas, the Alibaba and the Tencent began a cloud market stalemate. December 15th, Ali cloud in the cloud habitat Convention Guangdong branch announced that Ali cloud Japan officially opened the service, the ...
Tags: Alibaba, Tencent, cloud market
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Oracle's Long-Awaited 12c Database Has Apparently Received a Firm Launch Date
Jun 27, 2013Oracle's long-awaited 12c database has apparently received a firm launch date,with a company executive stating that it will be released"within the next two weeks." In addition,Oracle plans to release an update to its Fusion Middleware ...
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IBM Has Signed an Agreement to Acquire Softlayer Technologies
Jun 4, 2013IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, as it looks to accelerate the build-out of its public cloud infrastructure. The company is also forming a services division to back up the push. The financial details of the ...
Tags: IBM, SoftLayer, Public Cloud Push
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Norfolk County Council Is Seeking Bidders for an It Framework
Jun 3, 2013Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". In the Official Journal of the ...
Tags: IT Framework, Computer Products, Norfolk
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Norfolk County Council Is Seeking Bidders for an IT Framework
Jun 3, 2013Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". Further reading Wolverhampton ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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OCP Plans to Expand Its Efforts by Developing an Alternative to The Black-Box Switches
May 10, 2013A little more than two years ago,Facebook had a revolutionary idea: Inspired by the model of open-source software, it would bring together a community – the Open Compute Project (OCP) – focused on the creation of open-source ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products, software
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Cisco Extended Its Data Centre Product Line to Support Microsoft's Windows Server
Apr 17, 2013Cisco?last week extended its?data centre?product line to support Microsoft's?Windows Server 2012?hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align the two companies' data centre and cloud architectures for joint customers. The ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Race to The Bottom for Cloud Computing Prices Continues
Apr 9, 2013Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues. On Thursday, while announcing that the beta tag has been removed from the Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud service, Google also ...
Tags: cloud computing, Computer, Google
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Arms Vendors Are Moving Into The Cyber Security Sector
Feb 19, 2013Arms vendors are moving into the cyber security sector in response to a decline in sales of their traditional weapons, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute It is the first time that annual arms sales have ...
Tags: cyber security, Arms, annual arms sales
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Google Reveals a Few Secrets to Maintaining Speedy Operations on Large-Scale Systems
Feb 18, 2013Running the world's most popular website, Google engineers know a thing or two about keeping a site responsive under very high demand. In the latest issue of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) monthly magazine, Google reveals a ...
Tags: Google, large-scale systems, company news
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IBM Been Selected to Continue Supporting Ontario's ESO
Feb 17, 2013IBM been selected to continue supporting Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) by operating the province’s Meter Data Management & Repository (MDM/R) system with new computing infrastructure and an updated ...
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WorldPay Will Make Its Co-Located Datacentres Fully Operational
Dec 27, 2012Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
Tags: WorldPay, IT, Computer Products, RBS split
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Analyst Firm IHS Published an Important Study Last Week
Dec 26, 2012Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC ...
Tags: IHS, PC, smartphones, tablets, cloud
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Top NRA Retail Awards Are Received by Kohl's & Lululemon
Dec 20, 2012The National Retail Federation is pleased to announce that Amazon,Crocs,Kohl's and lululemon are the recipients of its prestigious annual awards.The award winners are selected each year by select members of the NRF Board who comprise its ...