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What Fairfax Stands To Gain From Buying BlackBerry
The end is nigh for BlackBerry, or at least it is in its current state anyway. As of yesterday, the company published a “letter of intent,”stating its plans to sell itself to shareholder Fairfax Financial and become a private company once again. Supposing the deal goes ahead – and it’s likely to do so – ...
Why Microsoft’s Super-Fast Surface Pro 2 Still Doesn’t Cut It
Microsoft is really hoping you’ll be tempted to buy one of its newly redesigned Surface Pro 2 tablets. In fact, it’s almost desperate for you to do so – hence the bundling of software and services that’s worth almost half as much as the new $899 device itself. Microsoft’s pitch is pretty compelling too, or ...
Larry Ellison Keynote: In-Memory Option For 12c Database Unveiled @ #oow13
In his keynote speech marking the opening of the annual Oracle OpenWorld event, company chief Larry Ellision laid out his plans to dominate the burgeoning in-memory computing sector with a new option for its flagship 12c database software, together with a clutch of new products designed to speed up data flows across the web and ...
LinkedIn Accused of Hacking User’s Emails To “Grow Its Own Network”
The professional social networking site LinkedIn is being sued by its customers for apparently hacking into their email accounts in order to hunt for contacts in their address books, a report in Bloomberg claims. According to the complaint, LinkedIn does so in order to bombard those contacts with promotional emails aimed at growing the website’s ...
Ellison’s Oracle Dedicated to Cloud : Product Refresh Right on Track #oow13
Oracle posted a rather mixed Q1 earnings report this week, with software up, hardware down and net income and earnings per share rising ever so slightly, but by far the bigger talking point on everybody’s lips was the one important tidbit that CEO Larry Ellison gave up about the agenda at next week’s OpenWorld event. ...
Google Wants To Cheat Death With Big Data
In a surprise announcement yesterday, Google’s CEO Larry Page lifted the lid on what may well be the search engine-cum-everything giant’s most audacious project yet – a new life science startup named Calico that’s hoping to come up with new ideas to combat aging and its related diseases. In other words, as Time Magazine notes, ...
Big, Messy Data & The Internet Of Things
The concept of the Internet of Things isn’t nearly as futuristic as some might have you believe, in fact its dead simple. Take an object, stick on some sensors and Wi-Fi capability, and there you have it – a device. These devices are rapidly taking root, and as their number grows exponentially, so does the ...
Salesforce Cozies Up To Workday in Cloud Alliance
This morning Salesforce.com and Workday announced the beginning of a closer relationship that’ll see the two enterprise software providers step up integration between some of their key cloud offerings. The announcement, which can be read in full here, lauded the benefits of closer integration whilst also making clear that each company plans on using products ...
NSA Keeps Its Hands Clean, Buys Zero-Day Vulnerabilities From French Firm Vupen
So it seems the NSA doesn’t do all of its own dirty work after all. On occasion, it’s also prepared to stump up a fair bit of cash to get its hands on so-called ‘zero-day vulnerabilities” (previously unknown bigs) that it can use to attack computer systems, according to a new freedom-of-information request. The request ...
Google’s Secret Plan To Ditch Cookies & Track EVERYONE With AdIDs
When it comes to online advertising firms, they don’t get much bigger than Google. And so when Google decides that it’s going to make fundamental changes to the way netizens are tracked online, the repercussions of that move are going to be felt far and wide – with one possible ramification being that it’ll become ...