Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. The company will invest in new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and ...
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Redis, an open source in-memory data store maintained by VMware, has been upgraded to be more stabile and make more judicious use of memory, two traits that should make it more appealing for enterprise deployments. “Redis 2.6 is ...
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Chip maker Calxeda has received an investment to the tune of US$55 million to develop low-power server chips with ARM processors, the company is expected to announce today. Calxeda makes a chip called EnergyCore with a low-power ARM ...
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Salesforce.com subsidiary Heroku is launching a PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud option for Java developers that is intended to make it easier to deploy Web applications on the Heroku cloud platform. Developers will able to package ...
A group of hackers has released a file containing unique identification data for over 1 million Apple iOS devices and claim that the information is part of a larger database stolen from the compromised laptop of an FBI agent. "During ...
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Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles, according to Facebook official Bo Zhang. A new Notifications API ...
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Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle, along with a number of other software and online services providers, have collaborated on a standard that they hope will ease the use of PaaS (platform as a service) among customers, an Oracle ...
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Oracle is augmenting its Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) to allow developers to create mobile applications for Apple and Android devices. The advantage the newly released ADF Mobile will offer is that a developer can write ...
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Microsoft's"Secure Boot"plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community,and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical's decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as ...
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Hackers have compromised two servers used by the FreeBSD Project to build third-party software packages.Anyone who has installed such packages since Sept.19 should completely reinstall their machines,the project's security team warned. ...
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Meaningful cloud computing standards are crucial to improve the maturity of cloud-based services and bring increased flexibility, security and interoperability, but too many competing standards could wreak damage, warned the Cloud Industry ...
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Computerworld - When one talks of computers today, he or she could be referring to a laptop, a desktop or maybe even a smartphone. Sergey Brin, CEO and co-founder of Google, wears Google Glasses during a product ...
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Microsoft today launched the new version of its flagship developer tool suite, Visual Studio 2012, as well as the availability of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. Before a crowd of developers and media in Seattle, USA, the ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8, with the hope of reclaiming a portion of the fast-growing smartphone market. The tech giant has been largely absent from the smartphone market during its most-recent years of explosive growth, but ...
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Although last week’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics showed better-than-expected results, the IT industry, was a big disappointment. After sustained growth – including 36,300 jobs added in July and August ...
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