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Oracle Ruling Allows Second-Hand License Sales in the EU
Database giant Oracle sued UsedSoft a while back; a German firm that specializes in buying up software licenses from customers that purchased them straight from the source, and then reselling them for a discounted rate. That’s bad for business if you happen to own the rights to that software, but as the recent ruling in ...
Cisco’s Big Linksys Update Not so Great, Customers Say
Last week I wrote about an update that Cisco rolled out to its A2700, EA3500, and EA4500 routers. The main feature that the new firmware introduced was Cisco Connect Cloud, a connected interface with the purpose of simplifying configuration and network management. The vision went beyond that, with the addition of tools that empower developers to ...
Xeround Strengthens Strategy with Plan Changes, More Rackspace Options
Today cloud database software provider Xeround announced an update to all three versions of its offering. The free edition, which comes with a mere 10 megabytes of capacity, one megabyte of throughput and five connections, is now available for Rackspace Cloud users. It’s not much and is only enough to allow any potential customer to ...
Grafetee is the New, Data-driven Foursquare
Rakettitiede is a Finnish startup with less than 10 employees that is pitching a new location-based application called Grafetee. It’s not unlike Foursquare and other similar services, but it focuses on augmenting the user’s ability to share directly rather than just as a part of a social platform. And as it turns out, businesses are ...
Augmented Reality Offers Personalized Shopping Experience from IBM
One of the things that Big Blue is most known for is its consistent readiness to invest in R&D, unlike a few companies like HP that have been neglecting research a bit these last few years. Today, the company announced that it has entered the augmented reality scene with a mobile app that may not be ...
Simplenote Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
This week’s app roundup is all about simplicity, and one of the featured apps even has the word in its name. iPad Simplenote Simplenote for iPad tops the list, and the reason is that the application offers exactly what it promises. The app replaced fluff and an over-bloated feature list with automatic note-syncing that the ...
This Week in Big Data: Innovation in Travel and Beyond
There were several major highlights this week coming from the analytics space, and one is the story of an upcoming travel service that aims to achieve for its industry what Google did for search. Hopper is a 2007 startup that is behind Hack/Reduce and a number of other initiatives. One of the founders is Fred ...
Cisco Embraces the Cloud, Third Party Apps
A day after Cisco’s big partnership with Citrix was announced, the networking company rolled out a big update to Linksys Smart WiFi router series’ firmware. The EA2700, EA3500, and EA4500 consumer boxes now give users access to a lot of new functionality via Cisco Connect Cloud, which also opens up a big opportunity for developers. Cisco ...
EnterpriseDB’s Cloud Database Gains over 2,300 Customers
EnterpriseDB debuted Postgres Plus Cloud Database just five months ago, with the premise of a more cost-efficient and easy to use PostgreSQL DB that can run on AWS and HP Cloud Services. The company hasn’t expanded the support roster as of yet, but did manage to build up a rather impressive customer base. In less than six ...
Transparency a Double Edged Sword for Big Data in UK Government
The British government hopped aboard the big data bandwagon this week with a new initiative that’s bent on making the U.K. a better place by sharing information collected by the different agencies. The full details are covered in this white paper, and over 9,000 datasets have been released so far, spanning health, transport, crime and ...