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Moscow has announced that it is to begin moving the email software on thousands of the city’s computers away from Microsoft towards home grown options. The city is to start by removing Microsoft Exchange server and Microsoft Outlook on 6,000 computers. According to a report by Bloomberg.com, email systems... Read more
AI Is Everywhere, But Is It A Good Thing?
News September 19, 2016
From toothbrushes that sense your general oral health to refrigerators that learn how much milk is left for your next cup of coffee, AI is everywhere. It’s the hot topic buzzword that’s working its way into every sector of society, from the bathroom to the boardroom. It’s become an... Read more
Google Wins Java Victory Against Oracle In US Court
News May 27, 2016
Google has won a major 6-year long court battle in the US against Java owner Oracle. A jury found Google had not unfairly appropriated code associated with the Java programming language. Oracle had argued that Google had infringed its copyright by using 11,500 lines of code from Java when... Read more
Court transcripts leaked to the web last week have revealed that Google allegedly paid Apple $1 billion to become the default search engine of choice for the mobile version of Apple’s Safari browser. The figure relates to the amount of money Google handed over in 2014 to gain the... Read more
Java 9 Release Date Now March, 2017
News January 5, 2016
Java 9 has been delayed again. The release date for the eagerly awaited Jigsaw has now been officially declared as landing in March 2017. Why the Delay? The team behind the new version of Java, are taking the extra months to make sure the final version has as many... Read more
Oracle Settles With FTC Over Faulty Java Security
News December 25, 2015
It’s a case of good news/bad news for software developer Oracle. In its recent legal woes with the federal government, the company was charged with knowingly putting out software with glaring security flaws. Fortunately, in this particular instance, the Federal Trade Commission didn’t go after massive fines or even... Read more
A recently released Chrome update, Chrome 42, no longer supports Oracle’s Java plugin, bringing to the forefront Google’s decision to completely phase out NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) by Chrome 45 in September, 2015. NPAPI first came on the scene in 1995 as part of Netscape Navigator 2.0... Read more
Oracle Buys Responsys For $1.5bn
Internet December 25, 2013
The rumours floating around regarding the Responsys buyout have been confirmed. Oracle will buy cloud-based marketing company Responsys for $1.5bn. Oracle has finally reached an agreement to obtain the cloud marketing company, for $1.5bn (£945m), as they continue to build up their cloud services portfolio. The deal also continues a... Read more
AMD has just released a set of developer tools for Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) ahead of their launch of ‘Berlin’, the first ever server chip based on Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA). The rollout is expected in the first half of 2014. The software includes ArrayFire 2.0, CodeXL 1.3, clMath, PGI... Read more
Oracle Openworld New Hardware, Faster Databases
Internet September 30, 2013
Software giant Oracle has kicked off its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco with a big keynote speech by CEO Larry Ellison, during which he said the company has significantly boosted the speed at which its databases can run. In a 90-minute presentation, Ellison went on considerably about how... Read more
During a recent press conference the Microsoft Corporation said it would support Oracle software on its cloud-based platforms. This tie-up is aimed at improving the rivals’ chances against smaller Web-based rival companies chipping away at their traditional businesses. The two industry leaders have been in competition for many years... Read more