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Microsoft shocks the world by open sourcing .NET

Microsoft open sources .NET Microsoft’s new CEO has been very busy making changes to the software behemoth’s culture and products. The latest change comes as a real shocker for many who are used to Microsoft being a much more proprietary company. Parts of .NET will be open sourced, and will …

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Oracle and SAP settle long-standing TomorrowNow lawsuit

SAP and Oracle have settled a long-standing copyright-infringement lawsuit, with the German company agreeing to pay about US$359 million in damages and interest to Oracle instead of the $1.3 billion awarded in 2010. Oracle sued SAP in 2007 on allegations that its now-defunct subsidiary, TomorrowNow, had illegally downloaded Oracle’s software …

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U.S. put fake cell towers in planes to spy on people

The U.S. Department of Justice is putting devices that emulate cellphone towers in Cessna aircraft and flying them around the country to track the locations of cellphones, a practice that targets criminal suspects but may also affect thousands of U.S. citizens, according to a news report Thursday. The program is …

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Mozilla plunks ads into Firefox

Mozilla kicked off its long-under-development plan to run ads in Firefox with the launch of version 33.1 on Monday. The ads, which Mozilla calls “sponsored tiles,” were first discussed by the company in February. In the months that followed, Mozilla defended the in-browser ad project against critics who called it …

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Facebook gives its server racks a Tesla touch

Matt Corddry, Facebook’s director of hardware engineering, should be grateful to Tesla. Not because he drives one (he doesn’t), but because the popularity of its electric cars could help Facebook take a little more cost out of running its data centers. Corddry runs Facebook’s hardware engineering lab, which designs the …

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IBM shares plans for supercomputing future

IBM plans to load future supercomputers with more co-processors and accelerators to increase computing speed and power efficiency. Supercomputers with this new architecture could be out within the next year. The aim is to boost data processing at the storage, memory and I/O levels, said Dave Turek, vice president of …

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Mozilla explores virtual reality Web development

Mozilla has launched a virtual reality website this week in hopes of inspiring others to build their own. Featuring demos including a fly-through of coastal British Columbia and a 360-degree view of the Arctic, MozVR.com is intended to offer a “native VR” Web experience, Mozilla technologists said in a statement. …

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Cisco joins chorus against Obama’s net neutrality plan

President Barack Obama’s call for ISPs to be regulated like traditional telecommunications carriers continued to send shockwaves through the Internet industry on Wednesday as the head of Cisco Systems warned that the idea could hurt his company’s business. Internet service providers ordered less network gear during Cisco’s fiscal first quarter …

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Sophos CEO: We’re betting entirely on the cloud

Sophos is betting entirely on the cloud in a bid to make it easier for understaffed IT departments to manage cyberattacks. Kris Hagerman, CEO of the computer security company, said Thursday the challenge is that SMBs often have small IT departments and may have no one dedicated to full-time security. …

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Fujitsu brews up cloud platform to test IoT ideas

Fujitsu wants to promote Internet of Things (IoT) technologies by launching a cloud-based development platform. The Human-Centric IoT platform allows Fujitsu customers to try out their ideas for IoT applications and works with Fujitsu sensors, networks, middleware and applications, according to the electronics manufacturer. Connecting offline equipment to the Internet …

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Salesforce Lightning Connect marries old apps to new

Salesforce has a solid lock on the SMB space, and more forward-looking large organizations have moved to its cloud CRM, marketing and sales solutions, apparently to great success. But for every Virgin America or Burberry, there are many, many more older companies out there with siloed-off, older systems; they couldn’t get …

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BlackBerry bolsters its enterprise pitch

BlackBerry announced a renewed enterprise focus on Thursday, including a partnership with Samsung that provides secure mobile software for certain Samsung Android smartphones and tablets. The software, to be available early next year, will bring together BlackBerry’s new BES12 Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) software with Samsung smartphones and tablets that …

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