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Privacy rights advocates up in arms as Senate votes to quash ISP privacy rules
Despite protests from privacy and consumer advocacy groups, the Republican-led Senate has voted along party lines to roll back broadband privacy rules that were approved just months ago by the previous Obama administration. Last October, the Federal Communications Commission introduced new rules that meant Internet Service Providers such as Comcast Inc. and Verizon Wireless Inc. would ...
CoreOS expands Tectonic Kubernetes solution to Azure and OpenStack
Container software company CoreOS Inc. wants to help more companies adopt a “cloud-native” information technology infrastructure, and to do so it’s making its Tectonic Kubernetes solution available starting today on more platforms, including Microsoft Azure and OpenStack. In addition, the company said it’s extending its Quay container image registry, which can now manage, store and ...
SAP launches new fund and incubation program for startups
SAP SE wants to help more startups get off the ground with the launch of a new $35 million fund for entrepreneurs that can help to expand its own ecosystem of software and solutions. SAP said the SAP.iO Fund is just one aspect of what it calls its new “open innovation model.” The software giant is ...
Splunk and New Relic meld their big data analytics platforms
Splunk Inc. and New Relic Inc., a pair of companies that offer specialized big data analytics, have decided their services can work better if married together. To that end, they announced a strategic alliance on Wednesday to make it happen. The companies said they’re integrating Splunk’s back-end information technology monitoring platform with New Relic’s application and code tracking ...
Airbnb rebrands as Aibiying to go after the Chinese market
The controversial hospitality firm Airbnb Inc. is gunning for China’s rapidly growing growing travel market with a rebranding, more investment and more staff hires in the country. The biggest news is the name change. Airbnb will henceforth be known as “Aibiying” (爱彼迎) in China, which translates as “welcome each other with love,” the company said ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 hardens security in final release
Red Hat Inc. launched version 6.9 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform on Tuesday, an incremental update that offers improved security capabilities. Red Hat’s enterprise platform is actually already at version 7, which the company describes as its “leading edge.” However, it continues to add new features to RHEL 6 as well, even though ...
Microsoft customizes Windows 10 for China’s government
Microsoft Corp. has paved the way for Windows 10 in China after finishing a customized version of the operating system for government and state-owned businesses. China has long been a problematic market for Microsoft. The market’s size is so enormous that no tech company can ignore it, but Microsoft has had to contend with numerous ...
ARM unveils new microprocessor designs for AI and machine learning
Smartphone chip designer ARM Holdings plc showed off its latest microprocessor design today, touting its ability to support intelligent systems in everything from phones and personal computers to connected cars and more. The new multi-core, micro-architecture goes by the name of DynamIQ, and will serve as the foundation for the next generation of Cortex-A processors, ...
IBM boosts hybrid cloud play with new partnerships, storage offering
IBM Corp. said Monday it’s working with Red Hat Inc. to speed up adoption of the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack and make it easier for enterprises to migrate their Linux computing workloads into private clouds. To that end, IBM said it’s making Red Hat’s OpenStack and Ceph Storage solutions available on the IBM Private Cloud ...
IBM partners with Dalian Wanda to bring Watson and cloud services to China
IBM Corp. is teaming up with Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group Co. Ltd. to take another crack the Middle Kingdom’s cloud computing market. The two companies plan to form a joint entity called the Wanda Cloud Co. that will begin offering services from 2018, IBM said at its InterConnect conference Monday. Dalian Wanda is an enormous entity ...