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Google LLC is reportedly in advanced talks with Nokia Oyj to buy its airplane broadband business, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Using Nokia’s technology, Google might be able to offer a faster alternative service to current in-flight Wi-Fi, Bloomberg said. Nokia’s airplane Wi-Fi technology is based …
Oracle adds new AI services to its Customer Experience Cloud Suite
Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday that it has enhanced its Customer Experience Cloud Suite with the addition of three new products aimed at helping customers step up their digital transformation efforts. The new products include an analytics application called Infinity, a segmentation tool for …
OCI announces new standard for distributing software container images
The Open Container Initiative has just launched a new project as part of its mission to create open industry standards around software container formats and rules. The group said Monday it wants to standardize container image distribution based on Docker Inc.’s Registry v2 …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release targets hybrid clouds
Open-source software company Red Hat Inc. is stepping up its game around Microsoft Windows integration, hybrid cloud environments and software containers in the latest version of its enterprise Linux distribution. Red Hat Tuesday announced its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release, …
Marc Benioff says Salesforce will introduce a blockchain product later this year
One of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, Salesforce.com Inc., has hinted at its plans to introduce a “blockchain and cryptocurrency solution” later this year. The comments came from Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff (pictured) himself during an interview at the …
Gartner: IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion thanks to record 6.2% growth in 2018
Worldwide information technology spending will grow by a record 6.2 percent this year, hitting $3.7 trillion, according to a new estimate from Gartner Inc. The prediction, which came via the analyst firm’s latest forecast on IT spending, is for the highest annual …
Google improves transcription with new training models for Cloud Speech-to-Text
Google LLC is refusing to let up on the artificial intelligence front. In its latest update, the web giant today announced some major changes to its popular Cloud Speech Application Programming Interface, which was first introduced in 2016. Google said it’s renaming the …
Velostrata enables rapid application migration to Google’s cloud
A startup called Velostrata Inc. wants to make it easier and cheaper for enterprises to migrate on-premises workloads to Google LLC’s cloud platform. The startup said its new GCP-Velostrata-integrated service can reduce the cost of workload migrations by performing them five times faster …
Immuta adds native policy enforcement for SparkSQL data
Data management startup Immuta Inc. today announced it’s updating its platform, enabling data scientists using the widely adopted data processing software Apache Spark to build algorithms that adhere to strict policies on governance and privacy. Immuta’s data management platform focuses on preparing data …
There’s no stopping Samsung as memory chips drive profits up 58 percent
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is set to top analysts’ projections for its earnings once again. In a preliminary earnings forecast issued early Friday in Korea, the company said it’s expecting a greater than 50 percent jump in its fiscal …