Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing. The U.S. patent system isn't perfect, but lawmakers ...
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They are probably the biggest cellphone makers most people have never heard of. Despite ranking third and fourth in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter, mention Huawei and ZTE to many Americans or Europeans and you're likely ...
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Microsoft is wielding the big stick of dramatically higher custom support costs as it pushes enterprises to abandon the 11-year-old Windows XP, an analyst said today. Custom support plans, which Microsoft negotiates on a ...
Seven years after the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has disclosed details about its new PlayStation 4 gaming console, which it said will be out by the end of this year. Sony introduced its latest console at an event in New York City ...
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Google has launched fee-based support services for customers of its cloud platform and infrastructure products, like App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and Big Query. Google, often criticized over the years for having weak ...
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Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-license trial. "[Microsoft is] very clearly heading towards ...
Google has released another promotional video for its widely-anticipated Glass project – the wearable device which takes the form of a pair of translucent spectacles that appear to enrich the user's experience of the world around ...
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Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-licence trial. “[Microsoft is] very clearly heading towards ...
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Calling it the biggest news since its creation, VCE last week added two low-end models to its line of Vblock pre-configured, cloud-computing systems. VCE also announced that it is teaming with SAP to add the SAP HANA database to its ...
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At Sony's PlayStation press conference in New York yesterday, it became official: the next-gen PlayStation 4 gaming console is arriving for the 2013 holiday season. Sony's event was more of a teaser than an unveiling, though: The company ...
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Sony has announced its PlayStation 4 videogames console at a press event in New York today. The fourth iteration of the company's hugely successful gaming platform, the machine confirms many of the rumours that have been running rife ...
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Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed a friend of the court brief in support ...
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NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country as part of a push to offer its cloud-hosting services worldwide. The company has opened ...
Computerworld - After offering solid-state drives (SSDs) in its storage arrays over the past three years, NetApp said it will begin selling an all-SSD array this year and what it called a "purpose-built" flash storage architecture in 2014. ...
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