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Rob Williams - Wed, Aug 06, 2014
We talked last week about the latest security issue to plague Google's ultra-popular Android OS, which at the time topped-off what seems like a never-ending list of issues researchers raise about the OS. With a just-released Cisco report...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 14, 2014
IT admins would do well to prepare themselves for a rather large collection of security updates that Oracle is planning to release this Thursday. The updates are supposed to fix precisely 113 security vulnerabilities that a apply to...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, May 10, 2014
Oracle sued Google over its use of Java to build the Android operating system a few years ago, but Google won the case. However, an appeals court has overturned that ruling, finding that “the declaring code and the structure...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 01, 2014
Though the hardware market has been contending with declining sales -- at least in terms of traditional PCs -- software is another story altogether. According to latest data released by market research firm Gartner, the worldwide software...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Nov 11, 2013
AMD is banking big on a heterogeneous server future, one where CPUs and GPUs work in unison to offer unparalleled performance. And speaking of parallels, that's just where AMD thinks its APUs can shine. It should come as a surprise to no...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, Nov 02, 2013
The launch a month ago of the Healthcare.gov website, the online portal for President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (AFA), aka Obamacare, went as badly as it possibly could have gone. Millions attempted to use the site, and it simply...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 23, 2013
ARM this week announced that it's inked a multi-year contract with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for ARM 32-bit platforms and also to add Java SE support for ARMv8 64-bit platforms. The...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 25, 2013
Microsoft and Oracle are teaming up in an official capacity to enable customers to run Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure, the two companies announced this week. As a result of the partnership, customers will be...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, Jun 16, 2013
For the majority of Americans, when a fabulously wealthy person buys a private island, the eye-rolling is so severe that is causes widespread migraines. Thus, one’s knee jerk reaction to hearing via the Wall Street Journal that...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Apr 25, 2013
Each year, New York-based consulting firm Reputation Institute, in conjunction with Forbes, queries thousands of consumers to help build a "reputation" list of companies on both a global and per-country scale. The goal is to highlight...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 05, 2013
IBM on Tuesday announced that the way it's going to compete with Hewlett-Packard and Oracle in the server space is by offering lower priced and easy-to-configure solutions for small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs). Towards that end, IBM...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Feb 02, 2013
If our not-too-subtle hint a couple of weeks ago about the perils of having Java installed wasn't enough to convince you to uninstall, you should waste no time in heading on over to the official site and grabbing the latest version (7u13)...
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Rob Williams - Tue, Jan 29, 2013
In the earlier days of the Web, our browsers were simple. If one crashed, it was likely due more to poor programming than whatever content you were viewing. The opposite can be said today, where many websites have the potential to crash...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Jan 16, 2013
Java is a mess; Oracle’s software has become a popular target of cybercriminals, and news about Java exploits is becoming more and more common, even as the solutions Oracle provides offer little comfort. Wait, it gets worse: According to Kaspersky Labs and security company Seculert, the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 11, 2013
Here we go again. We're not even halfway through the first month of the New Year, and already we're being warned to disable Java. Not as a general practice, mind you (though that's not a bad idea), but because of yet another zero-day exploit spotted in the wild "There appears to be multiple ad...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, Nov 03, 2012
My, how times, have changed. It wasn’t that long ago that Apple reigned supreme on the security front and Windows (and the operating system's associated software) was a vulnerability-laden punchline, but over the years Microsoft has...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Oct 24, 2011
Oracle continues its push into the cloud computing market with an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies for $1.5 billion ($43 per share). RightNow offers a slew of customer service tools designed to make interactions between its clients and their customers “rewarding and beneficial”, to quote the RightNow website. The company’s...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Oct 03, 2011
It’s been a busy day for Oracle; at its OpenWorld conference, the company announced new hardware including the Oracle Big Data Appliance, Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, and Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine. The Big Data Appliance is designed to handle--well, Big Data. Oracle describes the concept of Big Data thusly: “Weblogs,...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Jul 25, 2011
District Court judges are no strangers to outlandish demands or absurd claims, but Google and Oracle have jointly managed to push their case past Ludicrous Speed and into Plaid ("They've gone into plaid!"). In a hearing late last week, District Court Judge William Alsup informed both sides...
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Joel Hruska - Sat, Jul 09, 2011
Android's rise to dominance as a smartphone/tablet OS has reshaped the mobile OS market--but recent actions by both Microsoft and Oracle could damage the operating system's appeal. Oracle and Google are locked in an ongoing lawsuit over...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 29, 2010
Well this is getting interesting. According to reports, Oracle continues to cry foul over Google's business practices, most recently claiming that the search juggernaut "directly copied" its Java code. The allegation comes as part of an updated lawsuit that was first filed back in August of this year. The original lawsuit, which seemingly...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Sep 27, 2010
In the past nine months Oracle both acquired Sun Microsystems and recently launched an updated version of that company's 'Niagra' processor. That's an impressive amount of work in such a short time, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison isn't done shopping. Last Friday, at a company investment meeting...
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