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Google gives up on robots, looks to sell Boston Dynamics
If you were worried that Google was plotting to take over the world with its impressively horrifying robotic creations designed with the military in mind, well there’s good news – that’s not going to happen, because Google is reportedly looking to sell off its Boston Dynamics robotics research division. Executives at Google’s parent company Alphabet ...
Google open-sources its load balancing train, Maglev
Google says it’s going to open-source its Maglev load-balancing tool to developers, in a move that will also provide a boost to its own infrastructure. Google engineers Daniel Eisenbud and Paul Newson explained in a blog post that Google has a long history of building its own networking gear, including its own load balancers, which ...
Google takes marketing to the extreme with Analytics 360 suite
Google is throwing down the gauntlet to Adobe Inc.’s Marketing Cloud service with the release of several new tools aimed at enterprise marketers. Launched on Tuesday,Google’s Analytics 360 suite encompasses several integrated data and marketing analytics tools that are designed to help marketers reach consumers with the right message at the right time. Google’s Analytics ...
Amazon files ‘pay-by-selfie’ patent application for online purchases
Instead of entering a password or credit card number every time you want to purchase something online, soon you might just be able to take a selfie and have done with it. Retail giant Amazon.com, Inc., has just filed a patent application for a new “pay-by-selfie” technology that would allow consumers to do exactly that. ...
VMware adds HTML-5 Host Client to vSphere 6.0
VMware Inc. has added a new HTML-5 Web interface to vSphere 6.0 in what is the second major update for the tool. vSphere 6.0’s new Host Client is derived from what VMware calls a “Fling”, that is, unsupported code the company has written but not incorporated into its products, but which admins are encouraged to ...
Software to account for almost half of all Big Data revenues by 2026, Wikibon says
The growing usage of Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS-based, applications in the enterprise means that software will displace traditional services to account for almost half of all Big Data revenues by the middle of next decade, Wikibon CTO David Floyer asserted in a new interview. Speaking to SiliconANGLE ahead of the publication of Wikibon’s Big Data Vendor ...
Dell’s in the doldrums ahead of EMC merger
Dell Inc. has enjoyed the luxury of not needing to post it’s financial results for almost two-and-a-half years following its decision to take itself private again, but with the company firmly setting its sights on an EMC Corp. gobble, its been forced to open its accounting books up for scrutiny once again. And those numbers ...
Oracle posts mixed Q3 earnings: Cloud grows but profits slide
Oracle posted a disappointing set of Q3 fiscal 2016 numbers, blaming the strong dollar for cutting into its profits. The database giant reported revenues of $9 billion for the quarter, a three percent decline from one year ago, and net income of $2.14 billion, down 14 percent year-on-year. Still, the company said that when those ...
Dell to sell off “non-core” businesses to pay back EMC debt
With just weeks to go before EMC Corp. shareholders meet to vote on whether or not to go ahead and merge with Dell Inc., the two companies have put together documentation arguing the case for the merger, and that documentation also reveals a number of Dell’s non-core businesses are set to be sold off. The ...
Dropbox bails out of Amazon’s cloud
Dropbox Inc. built the world’s most popular file sharing and storage service on the back of Amazon Web Service’s cloud infrastructure, but after years hosting its services in the cloud, it’s now using its own technology instead. “We’re excited to announce that we’re now storing and serving over 90 percent of our users’ data on ...