Facebook knows why you just bought that sex toy
Facebook, Inc. is relaunching Atlas, the ad service it purchased from Microsoft Corp. at the beginning of the year, and its new and improved capabilities could prove to be a threat to Google Inc.’s…
3 years and 180-degrees later, Oracle turns to cloud | #OOW14
Oracle Corp. has made some big transformations in the three years since it decided to focus on cloud offerings. theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Frick and John Furrier discussed the changes on which Oracle has been…
Rackspace boasts 99.99% uptime and adds containers to OpenStack with private cloud upgrade
Rackspace Inc. is upping the ante in the race to bring OpenStack into the enterprise mainstream with a new version of its private cloud offering that implements the latest release of the project with…
Oracle extends its single pane of glass to the database with Enterprise Manager for MySQL
Oracle Corp. is bringing the capabilities of its unified management and monitoring system to MySQL environments as part of an update meant to make the open-source database more competitive against non-relational alternatives that are…
What you missed in the Smart World: TV that tracks health, battery-free chips
Today’s Smart World recap features a miniscule battery-free chip, a TV that tracks your health, expectations for Big Data powering the erection of smart buildings, and upgraded platforms for the Internet of Things developers. For…
With iOS 8, Apple is bringing sexy back to app development
By Saroj Kar
Unveiled at the opening of the Apple 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, iOS 8 is launched in parallel with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The big story is that iOS8…
Opinion: theCUBE covers Oracle OpenWorld at critical time
Today theCUBE kicks off three days of coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2014 at a critical time in Oracle Corp.’s history. Like many of the old-line vendors, Oracle is seeing its markets shift radically beneath…
Circle out of beta, opens up to international audience
By Kyt Dotson
Circle, a Bitcoin wallet and payment service, has been a very long time in coming and has carried with it a great deal of hype. The seemingly secretive service went through a recent closed-beta…
Take the ultimate selfie thanks to Nixie, the wearable drone
By Collen Kriel
The drone craze meets the wearable tech craze. Meet Nixie, a prototype wearable quadcopter drone equipped with a camera that you can use to capture the ultimate selfie. A finalist in Intel Corp.’s ongoing…
What you missed in Cloud: Horizontal disruption driving vertical change
History has proven time and again that however saturated, a market will always have room for a new player to disrupt the status quo. On the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) front, Ericsson is betting big that…