IDG News Service - Former Atari Interactive CEO Frederic Chesnais has decided to take a 25.23% stake in the company in a bid to save it from bankruptcy, Atari announced Tuesday. He will pay principle shareholder BlueBay just 400 euros for ...
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IDG News Service - With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. "We're in constant dialogue with our customers and users, ...
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The general availability of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely occur within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Service has learned. Oracle had previously said the general release would come sometime ...
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Oracle’s long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely be released within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Service has reported. Oracle had previously said the general release would come sometime this calendar ...
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IDG News Service - Google has created a €60 million (US$81 million) fund designed to settle disputes with French publishers over lost revenues, providing an alternative to a proposed "link tax" that would have charged the company for ...
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With its future in the balance, the company until now known as Research In Motion launched its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, two new handsets and a new company name on Wednesday. The new operating system brings the BlackBerry ...
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The seventh-grade classroom at Aptos Middle School buzzed with animated kids, many of whom whispered to friends and shot curious looks at the visitors scattered around their classroom. Local politicians, the superintendent of schools and ...
Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time. Herrod has taken a job at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he will work as a managing ...
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IDG News Service - China's Internet population reached 564 million at the end of December, an increase of 26 million over the past six months, according to a non-profit research group in the country. The new figure brings China's Internet ...
Advanced Micro Devices has been granted by a court in Massachusetts a temporary restraining order against four former employees, three of whom are alleged to have left the company to join Nvidia with confidential documents and trade ...
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Internet users should consider disabling Java in their browsers because of an exploit that can allow remote attackers to execute code on a vulnerable system, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recommended late Thursday. ...
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IDG News Service - IPv6, the next version of the Internet Protocol, could make life easier and battery life longer for electronics-addicted consumers. Much of the push for IPv6 has been focused on the requirements of enterprises and the ...
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IDG News Service - Ericsson has agreed to transfer 1,922 patents and 263 patent applications to Unwired Planet in return for a share in ongoing revenue from the patents. The transfer includes 753 U.S. patents related to 2G, 3G and LTE ...
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IDG News Service - Foxit Reader, a PDF viewer application often used as an alternative to the more popular Adobe Reader, contains a critical vulnerability in its browser plug-in component that can be exploited by attackers to execute ...
NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's ...
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