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Google steps up ecommerce efforts with “buy” button on mobile
Google is muscling even deeper into Amazon’s retail turf with a plan to add “buy” buttons to some of its mobile search results that take netizens directly to a new purchase page. The move is the latest sign of Google’s ambitions to expand its presence as a shopping portal, rather than just a place to ...
Google’s cloud shift will pave the way for others
Google is rapidly embracing the cloud, and hopes to have all of its internal corporate applications running there in the not-too-distant future. Already, more than 90 percent of its corporate applications have migrated, and as such the company has had to change the way it thinks about security, reports The Wall Street Journal. Google has ...
Microsoft says “non-genuine” Windows users will not get a free upgrade
Anyone running a “non-genuine” copy of Windows who was hoping to take advantage of Microsoft’s free upgrade to Windows 10 offer is likely to be disappointed. Contrary to earlier reports, it seems Microsoft isn’t going to just let anyone upgrade willy-nilly. Previously it was rumored that Microsoft was so keen to get everyone onto the ...
Back to school: Amazon announces AWS Educate to boost cloud learning
Amazon Web Services is hoping to entice more students to take up cloud computing, with the launch of a new program called “AWS Educate” that’s totally free for all approved educators, institutions and students. The program allows educators and students to apply for credits for a range of AWS service skills, such as Amazon Elastic ...
Azure rattles AWS & Google in Nasuni’s cloud storage tests
Storage-as-a-Service gateway startup Nasuni Corp. has just released one of its bi-annual reports rating the major public cloud service providers (CSPs), and it doesn’t make good reading for Google. Nasuni is a startup that offers cloud-based storage to its customers, using its NF-series filters as gateway devices. The company provides service-level agreements to its customers, ...
Oracle announces new spatial & graph tools for Hadoop and NoSQL
Oracle has just rolled out a handy new tool to help companies explore the oceans of data being consumed by technologies like Hadoop. Called the Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, the tool brings several new analytic capabilities to Hadoop and NoSQL. Oracle’s database already has its own spatial and graph tools, reports the IDG ...
Sage teams up with Salesforce to deliver new cloud platform for SMBs
Just as everyone was getting excited at the prospect of the $50 billion mega-acquisition of Salesforce.com, Inc., it looks as if there wasn’t any interest in the company after all, and instead all of the excitement was generated by a boring old partnership its has just announced with the UK-based Sage Group plc. Details of ...
Canonical gets “snappy” with Microsoft as it launches IoT push
Canonical Ltd. has made no secret of its ambitions to push its Ubuntu operating system everywhere, from the data center all the way to the new categories of connected devices emerging at the edge. The company still has some way to go though, especially in mobile, where its efforts seem to have stalled over the ...
Rackspace throws around its “fanatical support” to keep investors happy
Rackspace Inc. has a problem on its hands. The company is growing, but not nearly fast enough to satisfy its investors, who responded by selling off company shares in their droves earlier this week on the back of disappointing guidance. On Monday, Rackspace posted revenues of $480.2 million for the first quarter, a 14.1 percent ...
Filmmakers denounce “six strikes” Copyright Alert System
In a piece of news that barely made any headlines last month, a group of small movie studios teamed up to launch a new coalition dubbed the Internet Security Task Force (ISTF). But while the group’s launch largely went under the radar, it’s now looking poised to be much more aggressive than The Motion Picture ...