Oracle’s cloud adds PHP now, Ruby later

From InfoWorld: Oracle is adding PHP development to its cloud platform, with plans to add other languages, including Ruby. Support for Oracle's open source MySQL database will be added as well.

The Oracle Application Container Cloud service for building and scaling apps in the cloud is adding PHP...

T-Mobile keeps pilfering customers from its wireless rivals

From CNET: T-Mobile was in a gracious mood on Tuesday.

It praised the "generosity" of its rivals for contributing to its impressive customer growth.

The nation's third-largest wireless carrier released preliminary third-quarter subscriber figures, noting that it had added 735,000 branded postpaid...

HTC announces the Desire 10 Pro and Desire 10 Lifestyle smartphones

From PC World: HTC took the wraps off its two latest smartphones Tuesday, announcing the Desire 10 Pro and Desire 10 Lifestyle. They’re the latest two phones from HTC's more affordable line. The company has been struggling in the market, and is trying to reverse its fortunes with a fresh batch of...

Walmart closes $3.3 billion deal for Jet.com

From CNET: Walmart's push to take on Amazon took a big step forward Monday.

The big-box retailer closed its $3.3 billion acquisition of e-commerce retailer Jet.com, pulling off one of the biggest e-commerce deals ever and giving Walmart a new set of tools and talent to bulk up online. Still...

Falling flash prices are a boon to enterprise storage buyers

From InfoWorld: As flash gets cheaper, enterprises are spending the same amount of money on storage systems but getting more capacity.

That was the big trend in the second quarter of this year, according to IDC. Enterprise storage systems factory revenue was $8.8 billion, flat compared with last...

Samsung kicks off Galaxy Note 7 exchanges

From CNET: Samsung on Monday kicked off its exchange program for potentially dangerous Galaxy Note 7 phones, in the UK and Ireland at least.

The company says it has fixed the battery flaw that caused multiple devices to burst into flames and will start issuing Note owners with replacement devices...

Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering

From PC World: Larry Ellison has a message for Amazon Web Services: Oracle is going to give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market.

"Amazon's lead is over," he said during his keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. "Amazon's going to have serious competition going...

Twitter's first NFL livestream scores a touchdown with fans

From CNET: Twitter won its NFL livestreaming debut by a wide margin.

The social network received rave reviews Thursday for the first of its 10-game package of Thursday Night Football games, a slugfest between bitter AFC East rivals the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills. The Jets hung on to win a...

Sumo Air Lounger Self-Inflatable Chair | Lounge

Back in 2006, when I was still a little boy and APH Networks was still in its infancy, I took on the challenge to write about a product out of the norm for a technology review website: The Sumolounge Omni. Even though I was sixteen years old at the time, and probably had nothing else better to do in the summer other than getting my Bronze Cross swimming certification -- at least that was what I said in my article -- there was no doubt in my mind...

Reeven Brontes RC-1001b Review (Page 1 of 4)

Everyone has their different topics that pique their interest, and they generally know a lot of specifics to these subjects. One of the subjects for me back in high school was economics. I was not overly interested in it, but it was something I wanted to know more about. I took two economics courses, microeconomics and macroeconomics, and they were both quite intriguing. One of the assignments in the course was to select a book written about...

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