SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to ...
Tags: SAP Security, HTTP Services
Coffee giant Starbucks has refused to comment on plans to tackle tax avoidance agreed by G8 leaders in Northern Ireland yesterday (June 18). Many have found Starbucks' UK tax strategy hard to swallow A spokeswoman for the firm ...
Tags: Tax avoidance, Archbishop of York, Starbucks, G8 Summit
Hints that the Federal Reserve could pull back on its easing efforts later this year sent stocks broadly lower, with high-dividend-yielding stock sectors leading declines. After falling modestly in the initial minutes following the ...
Natural gas producers in the US will be able to keep up with the projected demand because they are becoming more efficient, a spokesman for Southwestern Energy told a conference in Washington Tuesday. "A frequently asked question is, ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Efficiency Gains
Global oil prices are unlikely to drop below $100/b until 2025, supported by OPEC's market management efforts and crude demand growth in Asia, Leonid Fedun, vice president of Lukoil said Tuesday, presenting key findings of the company's ...
Tags: Oil Prices, OPEC's market
Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Oracle will be announcing next week ...
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India’s garment exports are likely to increase to US$ 17 billion this fiscal, compared to US$ 14 billion exports made during 2012-13, according to Clothing Manufacturers’ Association of India (CMAI). Speaking at a ...
Sony has been urged to create an independent entertainment arm by New York hedge fund Third Point, which has raised its stake in the struggling electronics giant. Third Point has suggested Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai be made chairman of the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has agreed to hold off on several possible changes to equity market trading rules, in the wake of concerns expressed by market participants and market manager ASX Limited. Yesterday's ...
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With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
Tags: Facebook, Network Fabric, Social Network
CEO of business analytics and intelligence firm Jim Goodnight is glad his company does not have to C"strange world of the internet", and is mystified by Google's recent decision to spend $1bn for crowd-sourced GPS app Waze. Goodnight told ...
Wall Street plans to hold a simulated cyber-attack against equity markets this month that experts hope will set an example of how industries should test their defences against assailants. Called Quantum Dawn 2, the drill will involve big ...
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Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
Tags: Oracle, IBM, Unix Server Processor
Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, IE, Security Bounty Programs
The Australian dollar fell as speculation of a scaling-down in US stimulus measures boosted the greenback. At 7am AEST the local unit was trading at 94.86 US cents, down from 94.92 cents at yesterday’s local close. With the US ...
Tags: Australian Dollar, Speculation