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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8cx processor for Windows 10 laptops
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. made its name as the world’s biggest suppliers of microprocessor chips, but in recent years the company has taken a shot across the bow of Intel Corp., muscling into its territory with a class of chips designed to power personal computers. Today, the company stepped up its Intel attack with a brand-new ...
Application container market revenue to top $4.3B by 2022
The red-hot application container market will soon be where the money is, if the latest forecast from 451 Research Inc. holds true. The research firm has just published a report titled “Market Monitor Cloud-Enabling Technologies – Application Containers,” saying it expects the market will be worth more than $2.1 billion by the end of next ...
Subscription revenue and customer gains drive another strong quarter for Okta
Cloud identity management service provider Okta Inc. showed positive free cash flow for the first time in its history as it posted yet another strong set of financial results. The company beat market estimates with a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 4 cents per share, or $3.9 million, on $105.6 million in ...
Cloudera posts strong earnings ahead of Hortonworks merger
Big-data company Cloudera Inc. today posted positive quarterly results ahead of its expected merger with rival firm Hortonworks Inc. announced two months ago. The results came in ahead of Wall Street’s expectations. For the third quarter, Cloudera recorded a loss that narrowed from the same period a year ago, aided by a 25 percent jump in revenue, ...
Google’s Cloud Security Command Center enters beta
Google LLC today introduced a new security service in beta test that serves as a centralized portal for information technology teams to unify data on security vulnerabilities and act on potential threats before any damage is done. The company said the beta availability of Cloud Security Command Center makes it the first public cloud provider ...
Intel looks to quantum materials for the next generation of microprocessors
Researchers at Intel Corp. may have hit upon a replacement for the decades-old technology that has been used in microprocessors, memory chips and other logic circuits since their inception. The research is important because chips based on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology are nearing the peak of their potential. CMOS chips are based on transistors that connect to each other ...
Google’s new app building tool Flutter is ready to fly
Google LLC’s cross-platform mobile app software development framework Flutter is finally ready for primetime following months of testing that began with its beta release earlier this year. The release of Flutter 1.0 has been widely anticipated by the mobile developer community as it comes with the promise of helping them to build apps that can ...
Microsoft teams with Docker to dive deeper into open source
Microsoft Corp. is stepping up its commitment to the open-source software movement. It’s doing so amid an evolving information technology landscape that’s becoming increasingly reliant on the idea of distributed applications that run on multiple computing platforms. Enterprises today employ a mix of different clouds and runtime systems and use a variety of provisioning tools ...
Developers get access to new AI tools on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. is using this week’s Connect(); 2018 developer conference to beef up the artificial intelligence offerings available on its Azure public cloud infrastructure platform. The headline of a flurry of AI announcements today is the general availability of the Azure Machine Learning Service, which is a cloud-based offering that data scientists and developers can ...
Microsoft intros AI-powered productivity tools for Visual Studio developers
Developers can now take a peek at the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio integrated development environment for building software, applications, websites and other services. The Redmond-based company this morning announced the initial preview of Visual Studio 2019 at its Connect(); developer conference, adding a bevy of new features designed to boost productivity and foster ...
