IT analyst firm Gartner placed ‘Software Defined Anything’ in its list for Top IT Trends for 2014. Within the storage market, software-defined storage is rapidly gaining importance and becoming a growing market trend in the Middle East.
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Snapdragon 845 specs revealed: Immersive tech, AI & ‘secure vault’
Snapdragon 845 has been designed with Qualcomm Technologies’ wireless heterogenous compute expertise to deliver a platform for immersive multimedia experiences.0 2756
Home appliance makers connect with open source ‘Internet of things’ project
Home appliances, cars and computers could soon be talking to one another thanks to an open source framework that has the backing of consumer electronics manufacturers in a new industry alliance.
Apple acknowledges developer portal hack
Apple on Sunday addressed a multi-day outage afflicting its developer site, acknowledging that its systems were hacked.
Chambers: Cisco waited too long to address SDNs
Cisco waited too long to address the software-defined networking trend now sweeping the industry, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said last week at the Cisco Live conference.
Computer scientists oppose Oracle’s bid to copyright Java APIs
Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, …
Google woos developers as software becomes more important
Google did its best to court developers at this year’s I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for …
Google says it has 900 million Android activations
Google’s Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event in San Francisco. …
Hackathon shows how public sector data can be used for community apps
Google in east London hosted a two day “hackathon” last month to help demonstrate how open public sector data can …
McAfee spots Adobe Reader PDF-tracking flaw
McAfee said it has found a vulnerability in Adobe Systems’ Reader program that reveals when and where a PDF document …
Google services see large-scale disruption
Access to several of Google’s most popular web services, including Gmail, Drive and the main administrative console, was disrupted for …