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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
How Facebook Plans To Get The Whole World Online: Cheaper, Bigger Data
Facebook, which recently teamed up with the likes of Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek, Opera and others to launch the Internet.org initiative a few weeks ago, has just published a white paper that outlines its master plan to wire up the rest of …
Jolla’s Sailfish OS Gets Android Apps & Hardware Compatible
Finnish mobile startup Jolla has big plans for its nascent Sailfish mobile OS to emerge as a genuine rival to the likes of Android and iOS, and now it’s taken a massive step in achieving those goals with the announcement of compatibility …