Splunk .conf2013 is all-systems-go at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV. The data management platform unveiled two product updates this morning. The first is a refresh on its Enterprise suite, making version 6 of its platform available today. The second is the complete cloud availability of its Enterprise toolkit, delivering a fully virtualized offering to appease ...

Remember when Microsoft removed the Start button on Windows 8 last year? Customers and analysts alike were less than thrilled with such a departure from the familiar Windows experience, and Microsoft is listening.  When the software maker releases Windows 8.1 on October 18th there will be the Windows-standard Start button, The Verge reports this morning. With this, ...

Academia.edu continues to make scientific research a more open and networked practice, raising $11.1 million in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital and True Ventures today. According to AllThingsD, we learned that the San Francisco-based company now has 4.5 million registered researchers and eight million monthly visitors. Reiterating the growing interest in data-driven startups ...

Amazon announced the third generation Kindle Fire this week, with two new HDX models in 7-inch and 8.9-inch sizes. The Kindle Fire HDX models come packed with brand-new, high-resolution screens (339 pi), running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2.2GHz, and Fire OS 3.0, aka “Mojito,” Amazon’s latest operating system. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ...

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 (#oow13) is in full swing this week.  theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante, Jeff Kelly, and Stu Miniman sat down after day one at Oracle OpenWorld to discuss Larry Ellison’s opening keynote, what they expected to see and hear at Oracle OpenWorld this year, and everything in between. Oracle’s messaging is marching to the ...

I’m sure all of the Apple-fanboys will be happy to hear that the first week iPhone 5c and 5s sales numbers are in, setting a new record for opening weekend with over nine million devices sold. That beats out the iPhone 5’s opening weekend sales of five million, though this year’s launch features two devices ...

BlackBerry. Sigh. Poor BlackBerry. We reported earlier this week that vultures were circling over BlackBerry, with patents and its OS being the most desired assets. Yikes, what happened to BlackBerry? From being the smartphone that once dominated the corporate world, it’s now a distant fourth behind the powerhouses of iOS and Android, and the deep ...

Oh hey, the National Security Agency (NSA) is snooping around all of your financial information too. Or are they? We already knew they could read your e-mail and listen to your phone calls, but according to the German magazine Spiegel, citing new details from the Edward Snowden files, reported yesterday that an NSA program called ...

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 takes place next week, running September 22 through 26, at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. One thing our readers are anxious to learn more about is Oracle’s recently launched storage appliance the ZS3 Storage Appliance, particularly given Oracle’s goals of reducing infrastructure costs with this new product. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his company ...

Today Box has unveiled an online word processor called Box Notes, in a move that could will undoubtedly help Box in the cloud storage war. Additionally, Box’s services are now more on par with that of Google Drive, too. Box Notes looks to have a fairly mature feature set right out the gate, including: collaborative ...