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Financial services lie at the heart of use cases for blockchain, and IBM is now addressing one subset of that industry—private equity firms—with a new, specialized commercial dep...
Let's face it: The Internet can be an exceedingly rough place to have a conversation, particularly when the subject matter is politically charged. A research team from Jigsaw—p...
The widely held belief that billions upon billions of interconnected devices will make up the Internet of Things within just a handful of years rests partly on a parallel assum...
The discussion around keeping important legacy software systems up and running for the long term sometimes centers on the concept of third-party maintenance, where major upgrad...
Adobe will soon roll out digital signature capabilities based on an open standard it worked on as part of the Cloud Signature Consortium. The vendor says this is an industry fi...
The concept of indirect access to SAP systems has been a thorn in the side of customers for years, and now a major court victory for SAP stands to bring the issue to a head. A ...
A European industry group composed of cloud infrastructure providers has released a 41-page "code of conduct" that seeks to assure customers their data is being prote...
IBM made headlines in 2015 when it committed to spend $3 billion on its IoT (Internet of Things) strategy over the next several years, and this week reached a milestone in that...
Nokia is betting it can be a player in IoT by offering enterprises a single place to acquire a global IoT networking footprint. Here are the key details from its announcement a...
Google has made a long-anticipated move with the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, its globally distributed relational database that has powered many of its mega-scale consumer ser...
Oracle is not giving up hope of winning a copyright infringement case against Google over the latter's use of Java in Android, after losing two trials and an initial appeal.
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Salesforce's Einstein AI technology has surfaced in its Service Cloud product suite as the company moves to embed AI in all of its applications. Here are the key details from S...
Microsoft will soon make what appears to be a useful and differentiating service generally available for its Azure SQL cloud database. Here are the key details from Redmond's a...
While there's a long way to go, the tech industry continues to coalesce around IoT security. In the latest instance, some of the biggest names in networking and security are fo...
Competition in the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) markets is getting fiercer all the time, but now Microsoft has come up with an additional...
The global nature of cloud services such as Google Mail has long prompted thorny questions over the rights of investigating government authorities to serve warrants on informatio...
Microsoft has made significant pricing cuts for Azure virtual machines and blob storage, in a move that suggests 2017 will see competition heat back up among cloud providers on t...
Siemens' longtime chairman is stepping down at the end of this year, and the massive German industrial conglomerate has made a telling choice in the man who will replace him: For...
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has already made three acquisitions in 2017, and the rationale for all of them ties back to December 2015, when HPE unveiled its Composable Infrastruct...
Mozilla has abandoned its effort to create an open-source IoT (internet of things) platform with the dissolution of its Connected Devices group, a move that has resulted in about...
The demise of Microsoft's venerable Visual Basic programming language has been predicted for years—arguably, as far back as 2002 when Redmond introduced the .NET framework—yet it...
Cisco's strong position in networking technology puts it in an ideal place for smart building and IoT innovation. This is embodied by Cisco's new Catalyst Digital Building Series...
Fitbit's preliminary Q4 numbers are in, and to say the least they're looking a little flabby. In fact, the connected health vendor's financials are so out of shape that it's plan...
A big name in tech was conspiciously missing from the list of companies that formed the Partnership on AI last year—Apple. But now Apple is reportedly planning to join the resear...
SAP is one of the enterprise software industry's biggest bellwethers, and as a result, its financial results provide insight not just into its own execution but also the broader ...
It seems highly likely that the Trump administration will push for policies forcing tech companies to create cryptographic backdoors in the name of helping law enforcement, a hig...
One of the most talked-about announcements from last year's Google I/O developer conference, Android Instant Apps, are getting closer to production-ready status and they hold big...
Cisco is taking application performance management startup AppDynamics off the table for $3.7 billion on the eve of its long-awaited IPO. AppDynamics was most recently valued at ...
The direction of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's cloud strategy is coming into sharper focus with its acquisition of Cloud Cruiser, maker of analytics software for managing and mete...
Microsoft has quietly made some significant changes to the way it licenses Azure, positioning. Here are the key details from a blog post by Richard Smith, general manager of comm...
