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Salesforce.com, Inc. has added eCommerce functions to its Community Cloud via drag-and-drop Lightning Components, making it possible to display a “Buy Button” on any of its online communities. Salesforce’s Community Cloud is a platform that allows businesses to build websites where they …
IBM boosts Bluemix with streaming analytics & data warehousing services
IBM has expanded its Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering with new analytics and data warehousing services as part of a bid to add more analytics offerings to cloud-based apps. With the new services, IBM said developers will be able to integrate both data …
Parse open-sources its SDKs for app developers
Parse, the Facebook-owned platform for building native mobile applications, has moved to open-source its SDKs, beginning with kits for Android, iOS and OS X. Those SDKs are available on GitHub now, while SDKs for JavaScript, React, Windows Phone and Xamarin will be …
Oracle slams Google, says its “destroyed” market for Java
Oracle Corp. has hit out at Google and claimed that its Android operating system is “destroying” the market for its Java software, and potentially losing it millions in lost revenues from mobile devices. The claims come as part of an amendment to …
Report: Configuration problems leaking Big Data all over the Web
Misconfigured installations of enterprise technologies have caused more than a petabyte of data to be exposed online, according to a new report from BinaryEdge. The Switzerland-based security engineering firm probed four popular enterprise technologies in its study, namely Redis, MongoDB, Memcache, and …
Rackspace reveals plan to piggy-back on AWS’ success
Having all but thrown in the towel in its public cloud fight against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Inc. says its now building a managed services product for its arch rival’s platform. Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes announced the plan at the company’s …
Google adds Cloud Dataflow & Pub/Sub to its Big Data suite
Google has made two of its Big Data tools generally available, adding a new data analysis framework and real-time data stream management service to its cloud portfolio. These include Google Cloud Dataflow, which offers a framework for merging data from different sources …
Foreign firms urged to revise their budgets ahead of IT price hikes
CIOs of foreign companies are being advised to reasses their technology product budgets in light of the continuing strength of the U.S. dollar in relation to other currencies. The warning comes in a new report from Gartner Inc., which notes that currencies including …
Link controversy threatens to shoot down Jet.com
Jet.com, Inc’s dreams of surpassing Amazon.com, Inc.’s as the world’s number one eCommerce platform could be in ruin, just weeks after its official launch. The startup, which is backed by $220 million in venture capital funds, has found itself in hot water …
Buggy Windows 10 update causing endless cycle of reboots
Microsoft has borked a major update for Windows 10 that’s reportedly bricking some people’s PCs. The KB3081424 update, described by Microsoft as a “cumulative” update, is supposed to incorporate all previous bug fixes that have been rolled out for Windows 10 since …