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China plans a Big Data revolution with Internet Plus initiative
China has revealed more details about its “Internet Plus” initiative that aims to help foster the growth of e-commerce and Web companies in the country as part of a wider effort aimed at stimulating the economy. That plan, which was launched in March by China’s Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang, officially aims to ...
Google’s next Glass might be an ‘Enterprise Edition’
For all the fanfare, Google Glass wasn’t exactly a resounding success. Indeed, Google announced it was killing off the contraption back in January of this year, even though some businesses users and healthcare providers actually found it quite useful. But Google’s announcement was somewhat premature, for it’s now widely believed the company is planning to ...
Uber crumbles under French protests, suspends services
Uber Technologies Inc. has temporarily suspended its UberPop service in France, following mass protests from taxi drivers there who insist the service is against the law. After a week of sometimes violent protests by regular taxi drivers, Uber announced the suspension of its UberPop service last Friday, adding that it had done so to protect ...
SnapShot bids to bring hospitality into the Big Data era
SnapShot GmbH, a Berlin-based Big Data startup focused on the hospitality industry, received a big boost this week with €25 million in series B funding from Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., (Shiji Networks) to help scale out its suite of data analytics tools aimed at hoteliers. There aren’t many bigger buzzwords in tech than “Big ...
HP Enterprise split edges closer with SEC filing
Hewlett-Packard Company has filed Form 10 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the process of registering HP Enterprise Inc. as a seperate, independent firm. It’s an important step as the company prepares to split itself into two entities. The 311 page document gives us a good look at the finances ...
Microsoft to roll-out Windows 10 in “waves” starting July 29
Microsoft has at last revealed how it intends to roll-out Windows 10 to the masses when it launches at the end of the month. The company already said it plans to ship the complete OS to Windows Insider program testers on July 29. But yesterday, Microsoft OS boss Terry Myerson penned a blog post saying ...
Here’s all we know about iOS 9’s enterprise features so far
Apple didn’t give too much attention to the new enterprise features of iOS9 at its WorldWide Developer Conference last week, which comes as a mild surprise given its recent push into the workplace that includes a highly publicized partnership with IBM. That’s not because apple isn’t focusing on the enterprise – it is – but ...
Cloud providers “do not care” about enterprise success
Enterprise cloud users and even cloud providers themselves are being harmed by a lack of transparency in the industry, say analysts from Forrester Research Inc. in a new report. In a recent survey of 275 IT leaders about cloud vendors’ transparency and the metadata they provide, Forrester found that 60 percent of companies believe a ...
Data center spending stays flat despite cloud shift
Data center operators maintained a steady spending level on infrastructure during quarter two of 2015, though many are trending towards colocation services or cloud service providers, instead of building new data centers, according to a new report from 451 Research. The market tracker said that 87 percent of data center operators it surveyed in Europe ...
Like it or not, Microsoft’s stuck with Windows Phone, analysts say
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spelled out the company’s revised mission statement last week, he declared that we live in a “mobile first, cloud first world,” and that the company’s strategy is to “build best-in-class platforms and productivity services” for that world. But some commentators noticed a prominent gap in Nadella’s mobile-first vision: There wasn’t a ...