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Steve Jobs’ Biography Reveals Apple’s Design Process
Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs offers a glimpse into the top-secret design lab for Apple products, in the process revealing a good deal about the working relationship between the former Apple CEO, who died earlier this month, and his chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Apple heavily restricts access to that lab, which according to…
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Symantec: Businesses Suffer From Cyber-Security Delusions
The majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from ever increasing cyber security threats even as many fail to take fundamental precautions, according to a survey of U.S. small businesses sponsored by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Zogby…
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IBM Launches New Software to Tackle ‘Big Data’
IBM has announced new software to deliver "big data" analytics to users on a variety of devices and platforms. At its Information on Demand (IoD) 2011 conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 24, IBM unveiled new offerings that span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices…
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Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5B
Oracle announced that it has agreed to acquire Bozeman, Mont.-based cloud services firm RightNow Technologies for $1.5 billion in a deal that should close sometime at the end of this year or early 2012 and which likely positions Oracle to better pit itself head-to-head against Salesforce.com. The acquisition is a huge win for the education-heavy…
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Oracle Releases NoSQL Database
Oracle announced a key offering in the company’s portfolio of "big data" technology, the NoSQL database, which is available for download via the Oracle Technology Network. The NoSQL database enables customers to manage large amounts of data with dynamic schemas such as Web log data, sensor and smart meter data, data gathered for personalization and…
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Tablet, Shmablet! Why iPad, Tablets Are Just a Fad
Mark me down as a skeptic of all the tablet hoopla. Sure iPads are cool, but most other tablets have failed to rouse any real interest in the market, so don’t toss your laptops to the junk heap just yet. The iPad is no iPhone. It’s more like the iPod and, as such, will likely…