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Nepal earthquake: How tech firms are pitching in to help
In the wake of last weekend’s terrible earthquake in Nepal, tech firms including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have pitched in to help with the relief efforts. Apple has teamed up with the American Red Cross, and is asking for donations to help the rescue effort via its iTunes Store. According to Apple, 100 ...
Cloudy king? AWS said to be bigger than Google, Microsoft, IBM AND Salesforce combined
Few were surprised to learn that Amazon Web Services is the leading cloud player when it comes to the amount of cash it’s raking in, but is it really larger than all four of its closest competitors – Google, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce.com, Inc? It is if you believe the latest analysis from Synergy Research ...
Google makes a case for encrypting the Web
China kicked up a storm earlier this month when it was alleged to have used its “Great Cannon” weapon to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against GitHub, a code repository for open source projects, and GreatFire.org, a project that provides servers to aid Chinese citizens in circumventing the national firewall. The attack ...
Nokia pours scorn on rumors its planning a smartphone comeback
Nokia Technologies has come out to quickly squash rumors it’s planning an imminent return to the smartphone business. The Finnish company, which was at one time the world’s biggest and best known mobile phone maker, exited the handset business last year when it sold its core business to Microsoft Corp. for $7.2 billion in 2013. ...
IBM voted #1 cloud by enterprise users
Following a rather flat looking set of financial numbers released this week, IBM could certainly do with a boost. Which is exactly why the company will welcome the results of a new survey out of 451 Research LLC., this week that reveals that Big Blue is the choice cloud services provider for enterprise users. 451 ...
Spinning disk shipments to crumble as Flash accelerates
Yet more evidence that flash is the future has arrived by way of Nidec Corp., a Japanese spinning disk electric motor manufacturer, which says that disk drive shipments will fall by 3.7 percent between 2013 and 2020. The hit will be felt most of all in the data center, with enterprise-related shipments set to slump ...
Microsoft’s cloud business goes sky-high as Windows sales fall off a cliff
Microsoft might have surpassed Wall Street’s expectations on profits and revenues in its latest results, but the bigger news is that the company’s painful transition is well underway, and it won’t be able to rely on its traditional cash cows for much longer. But first the good news. The company made $4.98 billion in net ...
Hadoop gets an update with version 2.7.0 release
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0 via the Hortonworks blog. The latest version of everybody’s favorite Big Data crunching software comes with some “significant enhancements” to the Hadoop Distributed File System and YARN, among other components, not too mention the obligatory bug fixes. As noted by Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli, ...
Microsoft adds proactive data loss prevention capabilities to Office 365
Microsoft is hoping to shield Office 365 users from potentially expensive leaks of sensitive information, with new data loss prevention (DLP) features built into OneDrive and SharePoint Online. Microsoft said its entering phase two of a multi-phase rollout of DLP features for its cloud productivity suite. It began doing so last year with features that ...
Box builds an even better Box to power enterprise app development
Cloud file sharing firm Box has launched “Box Developer Edition”, a platform designed to be used as the backbone of new apps they build. Announced at the second annual Box Dev Day, the new product allows devs to use only the features of Box they want – be it file storage, content previews or something ...