From PC World: SAP has taken the wraps off of Project Orca and given the service a new name: SAP Cloud for Analytics.
Due in the fourth quarter, the technology is built natively on SAP's Hana Cloud Platform, which has the company's Hana in-memory database at its core.
SAP will deliver the service...
From CNET: Twitter will let go of up to 336 employees, or about 8 percent of its workforce, in an attempt to streamline its operations.
It's the first major business move by the company since it appointed Jack Dorsey as its permanent CEO a week ago.
The social network, known for the brevity and...
From CRN: Dell has acquired EMC in a $67 billion deal that transforms the onetime PC maker into a $90 billion computing powerhouse with its sights set on dominating the enterprise IT market.
The deal -- the largest in the history of the IT business -- creates a new world order in the intensely...
From InfoWorld: The end of the BlackBerry handset is nigh -- or at least it will be if the company can't get its phone business in the black before 2016 is out. BlackBerry CEO John Chen already said he'd think about giving up on handsets if the company's situation didn't improve. At Code Mobile on...
From PC World: While Google cheerily advertises the 13 antennas packed into its new OnHub router, the company’s been less forthcoming about the software under the hood.
Now that some hackers have rooted the high-tech Wi-Fi router, we have some clarity: OnHub appears to run a heavily-modified...
From CNET: Adobe Systems has apologized for releasing a bug-plagued update to its Lightroom software but still faces customer wrath over changes to the program for editing and cataloging photos.
The new Lightroom, version 2015.10 for Adobe's Creative Cloud subscribers, or version 6.2 for those...
Have you ever met someone who likes to affix all their honors and achievements after their name to make them look more important? Recently, I was talking to a friend, who sent me a PowerPoint slide of a professor in university who had more than half a dozen of such abbreviations when introducing himself to the class in his first lecture. Now, do not get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with plugging in proper credentials when introducing yourself...
From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard and SanDisk have announced an agreement to jointly develop "Storage Class Memory" (SCM) that could replace DRAM and would be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash.
The two companies will market their SCM products for use in enterprise cloud infrastructures based on HP's...
From PC World: Continuing the expansion of its AliCloud cloud computing business, Alibaba Group is setting up a second data center in Silicon Valley.
The Chinese company said customers could apply from Monday for services from the data center, which will span over 10 cloud services including...
From CNET: Apple's two latest iPhones may be off to a strong start in terms of sales, but fewer people are buying the company's MacBooks and iMacs.
Analysts aren't in agreement over the rate of the slowdown, with IDC reporting a 3.4 percent decline in Mac units shipped and research firm Gartner...
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