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Rackspace announces new managed services partnerships with Google and Pivotal
Cloud services provider Rackspace Inc. is teaming up with Google Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc. in two separate partnerships aimed at delivering new multicloud capabilities. With regard to Pivotal, Rackspace said Tuesday it now supports the company’s Cloud Foundry application development platform that’s designed to run on both public and private clouds or dedicated hardware. The ...
Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa
Amazon.com Inc. made a significant acquisition earlier this year in order to “improve” its voice-powered Alexa digital assistant, according to reports. Amazon splashed out “tens of millions of dollars” to acquire Santa Barbara, California-based startup Graphiq Inc., which specializes in big data visualizations, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing “four sources familiar with the deal ...
IBM Watson now understands if you’re happy, sad or angry from the tone of your voice
Natural language processing has come a long way in the last few years, as digital assistants such as Apple Inc.’s Siri being able to listen to human speech and understand exactly what was said. Siri also can act on those words, for example by providing answers to people’s questions or requests for information. But true ...
Report: Intel shuts down its wearable-technology business unit
Intel Corp. has finally given up its ambitions of dominating the wearable device market, despite having once had high hopes for the segment. CNBC news cited people familiar with the matter as saying that the company has shut down the operations of its wearables business unit, which focused on products such as fitness trackers. The ...
Microsoft beefs up electrical grid security with new cyberanalytics service
Microsoft Corp. is attempting to ward off cyberattacks on utilities with the launch of a new Azure Cyber Analytics program for electrical grid companies. The new Microsoft Azure Certified Elite Partner Program for Cyber Analytics in Power and Utilities comes bundled with the company’s Operations Management Suite, which is Microsoft’s primary cloud-based information technology and ...
Oracle to bolster cloud sales teams with 1,000 new hires
Oracle Corp. has launched a major recruitment drive aimed at boosting its cloud sales force, even as it prepares to make layoffs elsewhere. The move comes amid a major reorganization of Oracle’s sales teams that began last May. Oracle said in a statement that it’s seeking to hire staff with “a strong sense of personal drive” ...
Amazon drops controversial cloud contract clause to win over more customers
Amazon.com Inc. is trying to make itself appear more friendly by eliminating a controversial clause in its cloud customer agreement contracts that has put off many companies from doing business with it. For several years, potential Amazon Web Services customers have chosen not to do business with the company because of a clause that prohibits ...
Google Analytics can now handle natural-language voice queries
Some of Google Inc.’s products and services are already pretty good at dealing with queries spoken in plain English. We no longer have to type our searches into Google, for example, we can just ask for it and get the answers we need. We can also tell our smartphones to find the fastest route to ...
Public cloud spending will hit $266 billion by 2021, says IDC
Enterprise spending on public cloud infrastructure and services is set to hit $266 billion by 2021, according to new research from International Data Corp. The analyst firm said public cloud services spending will also grow 25.4 percent this year alone, to $128 billion. About two-thirds of enterprises’ public cloud spend will go to software-as-a-service, or applications ...
Qualcomm CEO says he expects to reach a settlement with Apple in patent royalties case
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s chief executive officer has broken his silence on the company’s ongoing legal wrangles with Apple Inc., making comments that suggest he wants the dispute to be settled out of court. Steve Mollenkopf made the comments during an appearance at the Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, Fortune reported. He suggested that the ...