Facebook has acknowledged the perceived difficulties it is having monetising its mobile platform,but has claimed that it benefits advertisers more than any of its other channels. Matt Trainer,manager Facebook PMD(Preffered Marketing ...
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Google's new Field Trip smartphone application offers users facts,photos and deals within their immediate proximity.The app is a free download from the Google Play store and is coming to iOS and international users soon. Google hosted ...
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While upcoming upgrades to the Enterprise and Standard editions of Java are expected to lack some hoped-for improvements,the upgrades still will have a lot to offer,including enhancements for HTML5 and multicore processors,Oracle officials ...
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Mark Hurd has used his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today to outline the four main pillars of Oracle's strategy. "First,we want everything to be best of breed at every level of the technollogy stack.We want ...
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Daniel Austin,Paypal's chief architect,has claimed that big data is a scam"most of the time",stating that relational database tools can almost always solve supposed big data problems. Further reading Oracle announces IaaS ...
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that will give Oracle customers access to Nokia mapping software and services. The deal,to be announced today at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 show in San Francisco,California,will enable Oracle to embed Nokia's Navteq mapping technology into ...
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The next version of Oracle's database will feature support for multitenancy as a critical feature,providing superior security,control and efficiency for software services delivered from the cloud,CEO Larry Ellison said Sunday during the ...
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Social networking site Twitter told delegates at Oracle's MySQL Connect event in San Francisco today that it uses MySQL because it understands the system,and it's capable of processing the high frequency of queries it receives. Further ...
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SINGAPORE -- The International Furniture Fair Singapore has named Ernie Koh as its chairman. Koh, who replaces outgoing chairman Andrew Ng, is executive director of bedroom, dining room and occasional manufacturer Koda Ltd. His year-long ...
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Some of the tablet makers at a launch event for Intel's "Clover Trail" processor emphasized the business smarts of their products as a way to distinguish them from Apple's market-leading iPad. Dell, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Acer and other ...
A must for the luxury-minded traveller,the Louis Vuitton's 2013 City Guides are,as asual,"packed with hidden gems and unique experiences".San Francisco Bay will be available for the first time as an individual volume and will be retailed ...
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If there is anything consumers are leery of right now,it's real estate.We never know if the market has hit bottom or if it will drop some more.It's unclear how many more foreclosures will come on the market to further reduce home ...
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HIGH POINT -- Contemporary furnishings source Euro Style has doubled its space for the High Point Market with a new 14,067-square-foot showroom in the International Home Furnishings Center, space C-332. Previously, the company was in four ...
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When it comes to replacing the soon-to-be-obsolete incandescent light bulbs in our homes, LEDs are certainly a good way to go – they're highly energy-efficient, they last for years, and they emit a nicer quality of light than compact ...
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Salesforce.com customers interested in using the vendor's emerging family of marketing software could benefit from a new partnership it has formed with Facebook for targeted ad delivery. The companies announced the pact late Thursday ...
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