Oracle is requiring database administrators to upgrade their certifications if the ones they hold are for older versions of its platform. “Earning an Oracle certification is a well-respected achievement,” the company said on its website. “However, as products age and are removed from Oracle standard support maintenance, the technology becomes …
Changing databases is not a move to be taken lightly, especially when the switch is to a relatively new kind of database. The Weather Channel, however, found that it had to switch to a NoSQL MongoDB data store in order to more quickly develop apps and add features to its …
SAP’s Hana Enterprise Cloud service will be made available through IBM’s global cloud infrastructure, in a move that expands options for customers around the world who are considering moving their business applications off-premises to the cloud. The deal will give SAP access to a total of 60 data centers between …
Oracle is requiring database administrators to upgrade their certifications if the ones they hold are for older versions of its platform. “Earning an Oracle certification is a well-respected achievement,” the company said on its website. “However, as products age and are removed from Oracle standard support maintenance, the technology becomes …
The Java2D classes, as defined in the java.awt.geom package, define four basic geometric constructions (plus the point, but that hardly counts). The constructions are the line, the ellipse, the rectangle, and the generalized path. Perfect circles are a subset of the ellipse class; regular squares a special kind of rectangle. …
SAP’s Hana Enterprise Cloud service will be made available through IBM’s global cloud infrastructure, in a move that expands options for customers around the world who are considering moving their business applications off-premises to the cloud. The deal will give SAP access to a total of 60 data centers between …
What could be better than an app that lets you make payments to friends, charities or crowdfunding sites with a few taps on your smartphone? How about an app that does all that — and tells everyone what you spent. That’s essentially what French mobile payment company S-money, a subsidiary …
On Thursday, Skype debuted Skype Qik, a “spontaneous” video chat app that allows you to fire off video messages to a group of friends, react to them, and rest easy in the fact that they’ll disappear in two weeks’ time. That may seem like a mouthful, but that’s about the …
Your phone can receive messages from around the world. But how about emanations from beyond our solar system? Scientists from the University of California (UC) have launched an effort to use smartphones to detect signs of cosmic rays, a form of high-energy radiation that sends subatomic particles zipping through space. …
Hackers claim to have stolen a database of almost 7 million Dropbox log-in credentials, but the company says its service was not hacked and that unrelated websites are the data source. The first data dump appeared Monday in an anonymous post on Pastebin.com and contained 400 username and password pairs. …
Hackers claim to have stolen a database of almost 7 million Dropbox log-in credentials, but the company says its service was not hacked and that unrelated websites are the data source. The first data dump appeared Monday in an anonymous post on Pastebin.com and contained 400 username and password pairs. …
It’s official: Most people who tried Windows 10 ignored our warnings. Microsoft released some glowing Windows 10 stats on Monday. Already more than 1 million people have registered with Windows Insider to become a Windows 10 tester. Great! More than 200,000 suggestions or complaints have been filed via the Windows …
The good thing about open source projects getting killed off is that there always seems to be another to take its place. Here’s a look at this year’s carnage to date, including some free software and freeware. TrueCrypt disk encryption The managers of the TrueCrypt open source encryption file and …
Image by Shutterstock While growth in the IT industry as a whole continues at a brisk pace, some skills are hotter than others. “There are key areas of technology right now that are growing faster than others,” says Dice.com president Shravan Goli. “What’s interesting is that this growth stretches across …
SAP may be trying to become a big player in cloud-based business software, but most of its customers run their applications on-premises and many have no plans to move them into the cloud anytime soon. In recognition of this, SAP has announced the extension of mainstream support for its flagship …
Apple owns the mobile enterprise. That dominance means enterprise developers are building solutions that make iOS even more essential, including BroadSoft‘s latest unified communications solution, UC-One. iBeacon redux In a new twist, UC-One works with Apple’s iBeacon devices to enable more precise identification of an individual’s location within a work …
SAP may be trying to become a big player in cloud-based business software, but most of its customers run their applications on-premises and many have no plans to move them into the cloud anytime soon. In recognition of this, SAP has announced the extension of mainstream support for its flagship …
Камеры видеонаблюдения в одном из автобусов Китая сняли момент взрыва смартфона в руках у женщины. Это случилось, когда она стала менять аккумуляторную батарею устройства. Аппарат вспыхнул у пассажирки в руках, и она поспешила вынести его из автобуса. Другие пассажиры тут же бросились к выходу. Согласно источнику, пострадавших не было, а власти провинции …
A cyberespionage group operating out of Russia has launched malware attacks against the Ukrainian government and at least one U.S.-based organization through a previously unknown vulnerability that affects most versions of Windows. The group, which has been dubbed the Sandworm team, has been actively attacking organizations like the NATO alliance, …
CIOs at Humana, Progressive, Vanguard, Western Union and other huge companies talk candidly about where they are with cloud computing — some are “all in” with all things cloud, others are proceeding more cautiously with, say, public cloud for specific types of apps — and share some of the lessons …
Cloud giants Image by Chris Koehler CIOs and cloud leaders at large enterprises — Campbell Soup, Dow Chemical, GE, Nationwide, Western Union, Whirlpool and others — talk about their successes and challenges as they deploy resources to public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Here’s a snapshot of life in the …
In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don’t know what your network and servers are doing at every second of the day, you’re flying blind. Sooner or later, you’re going to …
Сервис облачного хранилища Dropbox оказался в центре скандала. Неизвестный хакер разместил на Pastebin 400 логинов и паролей его пользователей и заявил, что у него есть имеется 6 937 081 паролей к учеткам и потребовал за них выкуп в биткойнах. Представители Dropbox ответили на это тем, что их база данных не была взломана, а срок …
В команду компании Xiaomi вошел еще один бывший топ-менеджер корпорации Google. Им оказался Джей Мани (Jai Mani), возглавлявший подразделение по стратегическому планированию и аналитике в Google Play. Джей Мани возглавит отдел разработок Xiaomi в Индии. По словам Хьюго Барра (Hugo Barra), который сотрудничал с ним в Google, Джей Мани будет осуществлять …
Российские хакеры замышляют ограбление мировых финансовых институтов на 1 млрд долл. (618 млн фунтов). Об этом сообщает “Россия 24” со ссылкой на заявление Полицейской службы Евросоюза (Европол). …
A Nigerian court last week gave the green light to the privatization of state-owned Nigeria Telecommunications (Nitel) and its mobile arm, Mobile Telecommunications (Mtel), but there are no guarantees this latest effort to sell the company will succeed. read more