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Microsoft Responds to Larry Page Remarks, but Oracle is Quiet
Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the executive.
Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the executive.
Page criticized Microsoft and Oracle in response to questions after his keynote speech at Google's I/O developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday. Microsoft came under fire about instant messaging interoperability, while Oracle was singled out over Java.
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Google CEO on Innovation: 'We're at One Percent of What's Possible'
Google CEO Larry Page took the stage today to wrap up a nearly four-hour long keynote that kicked off the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.
Google CEO Larry Page took the stage today to wrap up a nearly four-hour long keynote that kicked off the Google I/O developers conference here.
Page, who is dealing with a scratchy voice caused by vocal cord paralysis, didn't pitch products, but was more philosophical, talking about innovation, negativity and the future of technology.
Google CEO Larry Page speaks at the Google I/O developers conference (Image: Screengrab)
"Today, we're still just scratching the surface," said Page. "Google is working on so many innovations. I got goose bumps about it."
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Beware the Buzz that Breeds IT Discontent
Computerworld talked to tech veterans and analysts who share their insights on current buzzwords and whether they will be here to stay.
Buzzwords overflow in the tech world. Often coined by vendors for promoting new concepts and 'solutions', buzzwords can confuse users and become meaningless over time.
Tech professionals have different opinions towards recent buzzwords including: cloud, big data, the Internet of Things, SDN (software-defined networking), enterprise social networks, and augmented reality. When do buzzwords move beyond the hype stage and bring real value?
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Twitter Buys Ubalo to Speed Up Its Back-end
Details are still sketchy on the acquisition of Ubalo whose chief service focuses on faster coding.
"We've got some exciting news: The Ubalo team is joining Twitter," the site announced in a tweet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Icahn, Southeastern Make Alternative Bid for Dell
Investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have countered Dell's plan to go private with an offer that would give shareholders a large payout and still keep the computer company publicly traded.
In a letter Thursday to Dell's board, the two large shareholders in the company offered to give shareholders the option to continue holding shares in the company, and take an additional US$12 a share in cash or stock.
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Wall Street Beat: Rise in Markets Could Fuel Tech M&A
Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the mobile market.
Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the mobile market.
On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard and Poor's 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange all closed up for the week, marking three straight weeks of gains. Last week the Dow and the S&P broke through to milestone levels -- 15,000 points for the Dow and 1,600 for the S&P.
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How Crompton Greaves Integrated the ERPs of Its Acquisitions and Saved Crores of Rupees
When a slew of acquisitions hit Crompton Greaves with a host of ERPs, increasing expenses and inefficiency, its CIO rolled them all into one and saved crores of rupees.
Because of a decentralized system, earlier it took a lot of time for us to collect informationJ. Ramesh, Global CIOCrompton Greaves
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There’s no doubt that Crompton Greaves is one of the most respected companies in the power sector, but not many know that it’s one of the top ten electrical transformer manufacturers in the world. It got there by piggybacking on the success of a Belgium power transformer company—Pauwels Group—that it acquired in 2005.
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Forrester: 'Renegade' Business Execs Drive IT Strategy
Business executives are increasingly bypassing the IT department and spending their own budgets on technology as "it's too important for their business to leave to IT", says analyst house Forrester.
Business executives are increasingly bypassing the IT department and spending their own budgets on technology as "it's too important for their business to leave to IT", says analyst house Forrester.
A Forrester report, "Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer," uncovers the motivations and technology spending priorities of over 1,000 North American and European business executives.
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Fusion-io CEO Resigns, is Replaced by Former HP Executive Robison
Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard.
Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard.
Flynn resigned effective immediately "to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," according to a news release on Wednesday from Fusion-io. The company's co-founder and chief marketing officer, Rick White, has also resigned, Fusion-io said.
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VMware Announces VCloud Hybrid Service
VMware unveiled VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware and built on the foundation of VMware vSphere, giving customers a common platform to seamlessly extend their data center to the cloud.
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EMC Lays Off More than 1,000 as Restructuring Continues
As part of its ongoing restructuring, EMC today announced its latest round of layoffs, which are expected to include 1,004 positions.
As part of an ongoing restructuring, EMC reported today that it will lay off more than 1,000 employees worldwide.
The company reported in its latest 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that in the first quarter of the year it began rolling out restructuring programs that will mean a workforce reduction of 1,004 positions.
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VMware Announces VCloud Hybrid Service
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Juniper Networks unveiled the Junos® Network Analytics suite, a family of next-generation big data analytics and network intelligence solutions that now includes the BizReflex and NetReflex products.
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Jive Software has eliminated the limit on the number of people who can use its social task management application Producteev for free within a company.
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