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Investors flock to tiny device that promises online anonymity
A new gadget with the potential to strike terror into the hearts of online marketers has just set off a crowdfunding frenzy on Kickstarter. The Anonabox is a tiny, 2.4 inch by 1.6 inch router that aims to anonymize online activity by redirecting Ethernet and Wi-Fi traffic through the Tor network. It launched its fund-raising ...
Windows 10 is idiot-proof, but is it enterprise-ready?
Microsoft Corp. is in something of a celebratory mood, having announced over a million downloads of its Windows 10 Technical Preview. “This is going to be a different Windows,” wrote Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore in a blog post. “We’re going to share our plans and progress with you earlier and more often as we want to ...
Linux Foundation launches drone initiative
As interest in drones for everything from truck driver training to search and rescue grows, groups are coming together to build standards for what promises to be a messy adoption and regulatory approval process. The Linux Foundation has just announced an open-source software initiative called the Dronecode Project, that it hopes will provide developers with the ...
EMC buys into OpenStack with Cloudscaling acquisition
It might be struggling to keep its federation together, but that hasn’t stopped EMC Corp. from furthering its expansion efforts elsewhere. This time round it’s just bought into OpenStack with the acquisition of The Cloudscaling Group, Inc., one of the first vendors to sell it’s own distribution of the open-source cloud software. Cloudscaling’s offering is ...
Salesforce.com’s crashes Big Data analytics party with Wave platform
Big Data is such a booming business that it was only a matter of time before Salesforce.com Inc. entered the market, and it is doing so with a splash. Salesforce.com’s new product, called Wave, is set to be announced during CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote at the company’s annual Dreamforce Conference, reports Bloomberg. Wave is a platform ...
GE enlists Cisco, Intel and Verizon in push to unify Internet of Things
General Electric Corp. (GE) would like to to own the Internet of Things, and it moved a step closer to that goal with an important new partnership with Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., and Verizon Wireless that aims to connect its GE’s Predix software platform to millions of new machines and sensors, regardless of manufacturer. ...
SAP buddies up with Birst to bring data analytics to HANA cloud
When it comes to IT, timing is everything, which is why on the eve of an expected announcement from Salesforce.com about its analytics cloud, Germany-based SAP SE has launched a pre-emptive strike. SAP said on Friday it’s teaming up with a startup called Birst Inc. to extend its reach in the business intelligence market. The partnership ...
Symantec does the splits: One for security, another for storage
Another day, another Silicon Valley giant does the splits. This time it’s the turn of Symantec Corp., which has just confirmed it’s planning to split itself into two distinct brands: one focused on security, and another focused on information management. Symantec’s announcement is the latest in a spate of multi-billion dollar mega-corporation restructuring moves over ...
Cisco denies it’s planning to bail out on VCE
Cisco Systems Inc., has been denying reports that it’s about to limit its involvement with the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE), but the direction its various backers are moving in does suggest there’s more to this than mere speculation. VCE is a converged systems company backed by Cisco, EMC and VMware. Its main product line ...
Teredata loops into Cloudera’s Hadoop
Data warehouse firm Teredata Corp. is jumping into Hadoop again, only this time round it’s teaming up with Cloudera Inc. at the same time as it launches its new Hadoop cloud service. The biggest news is Teredata’s partnership with Cloudera. Up until now its enjoyed a very close integration with Cloudera’s rival Hortonworks, and so ...