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Oracle bigs up cloud potential as on-premise revenues slide again

By Mike Wheatley Dec 17, 2015

Oracle saw its total revenues fall once again as it posted its fiscal 2016 Q2 earnings results, but the database giant can take encouragement from substantial growth in its cloud business that helped the…

An improved Skype for Business comes to Android

By James Farrell Dec 16, 2015

Microsoft’s Skype for Business app is now out of preview and available from Google Play. Android users that were previously using Lync 2013 will receive an automatic update to the Skype for Business app based on their…

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 16: Microsoft Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service, SWIFT and blockchain technology, GASH Point bitcoin payments and more

By Kyt Dotson Dec 16, 2015

Technologies related to the blockchain, the distributed-ledger technology that underlies Bitcoin infrastructure, has seen a great deal of attention the past year and many more ventures involved continue to appear. This week, Microsoft’s Azure…

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Target botches holiday season cybersecurity, again

By Maria Deutscher Dec 16, 2015

Two years and about $300 million in legal costs later, it seems that Target Corp. still hasn’t fully internalized the lessons from the 2013 holiday season breach that saw hackers steal the personal information of more…

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Streaming doesn’t obviate RDBMS analytics, says Wikibon

By Bert Latamore Dec 16, 2015

The driver in creating the Systems of Intelligence analytic data pipeline is cutting the time between capturing data and making a decision, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert in part two of his…