Google Cloud Platform cozies up to Windows Server
Google has just announced expanded support for Windows on its Google Cloud Platform, in a move the company hopes will help it to lure in more enterprise customers. Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows…
China’s Tsinghua Unigroup weighs up $23B takeover of Micron
Chinese government-backed Tsinghua Unigroup is said to be interested in acquiring U.S.-owned semiconductor firm Micron Technology Inc. in a $23 billion deal that would boost China’s efforts to become less dependent on foreign technology.…
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Nimble supercharges its flash storage stack with new software-defined capabilities
Having recently witnessed two of its top rivals roll out new capabilities for their respective flash arrays only a few weeks apart, Nimble Storage Inc. is now joining the fray as well with a…
Jitterbit rolls out unified API deployment/management platform
By Paul Gillin
Enterprise integration vendor Jitterbit, Inc. today announced a cloud platform for companies to use in quickly designing and managing real-time application program interfaces (APIs), a middleware technology that is fast gaining favor as a…
MariaDB adds Docker, Chef support in summer release
By Paul Gillin
MariaDB Corp. is focusing on developers in the summer release of its namesake database and related MaxScale proxy server. Founded by the developers of MySQL in the wake of Oracle’s acquisition of that software, MariaDB…
There’s life in Windows Phone yet, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
There’s been a lot of talk concerning what Microsoft is going to do with its encumbered phone business following the huge layoffs last week. And now on the back of the news that Microsoft…
How to disable download, print, copy for files shared via Google Drive
By Collen Kriel
On Tuesday Google introduced a new Information Rights Management (IRM) feature to Google Drive, the company’s file storage and synchronization service that lets users store files in the cloud, share files, and edit documents,…
Report: Samsung Galaxy Note 5, S6 Plus, S6 Edge Plus coming August 12, on sale August 21
By Duncan Riley
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.’s latest Android-powered smartphones may be not far off, with an unconfirmed report Tuesday suggesting that they’ll be announced in August. According to Samsung dedicated site Sammobile, Samsung will announce the…
Hacking Team found a way to track and trace Bitcoin transactions, and the software is now in the wild
By Duncan Riley
Notorious spyware vendor Hacking Team may have set the cat among the pigeons in the Bitcoin space with news that it has found a way to track Bitcoin transactions. According to Ars Technica, among…
Epic’s forums hacked, taken offline during investigation
By Kyt Dotson
Epic Games, Inc., developer of the Unreal Engine and the Unreal series of first person shooters, is currently sending out e-mails warning users that its forums have been subject to a hack. The e-mail,…