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Google to dump Oracle’s APIs for OpenJDK in Android
Google has been involved in a legal dispute with database vendor Oracle that’s dragged on for years, but now it looks like the search engine giant is maneuvering, either because it wants to make the outcome of the case irrelevant, or because it’s fearing a less than favorable outcome. Google said yesterday it’s planning to ...
No rest for the wicked: IT pros report being ‘overworked’ at Xmas
The festive season might be in full swing, but for dozens of IT teams across the country they barely have time to unwrap their Christmas stockings before being called into action to deal with urgent system problems that crop up over the holidays. A new survey of 378 IT professionals just published by software firm ...
Managed services provider Steel Orca goes bust
Pennsylvania-based managed data center services provider Steel Orca Inc. is filing for bankruptcy after failing in an attempt to transform a defunct steel mill on the state border with New Jersey into a new data center, reports say. Steel Orca, which also has a data center facility in Princeton, New Jersey, voluntarily filed for Chapter 7 ...
Facebook’s open-source software blitz hits new heights in 2015
Facebook’s React Native, a framework for building native apps using React, its open-source JavaScript library that provides a view for data rendered as HTML, has risen to become the social media giant’s second most popular open-source project just nine months after its launch. The revelation was made by Christine Abernathy, Developer Advocate for the Open ...
Inside North Korea’s Linux-based Red Star OS
Security researchers have stripped down the North Korean-built Red Star OS, an operating system based on Linux and designed for use in the communist country. The researchers, Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess from German tech security firm ERNW Enno Rey Netzwerke GmbH, found that the OS incorporates a number of features aimed at spying on ...
Intel seals the deal for Altera, hopes to launch FPGA chips next year
Intel has finally sealed its $16.7 billion acquisition of programmable chip maker Altera Corp., saying the deal will provide an enormous boost to its efforts in the data center, intelligent systems and the Internet of Things. “Altera is now part of Intel,” said Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich confirmed in a statement. Altera will be reorganized ...
Software bug leads to “thousands” of U.S. inmates being released too early
Washington State’s Department of Corrections is to be investigated after it admitted releasing more than 3,200 prisoners early due to a software bug in their computer systems. The glitch apparently miscalculated time credits awarded to inmates for good behavior, causing them to be released earlier than they should have been. While software glitches are fairly ...
Rise of the machines: Nascent robotic exoskeleton market to hit $1.8Bn by 2025
Allied Business Intelligence Research Inc., better known as ABI Research, has stolen a march on rival analyst firms with one of the first deep dives into the nascent robotic exoskeleton market, and it brings exciting news for those who intend to make a living from it. According to ABI Research, the robotic exoskeleton market should achieve ...
Salesforce confirms $360M acquisition of quote-to-cash startup SteelBrick
Salesforce.com, Inc. has confirmed speculation that first emerged last week, saying it’s entered into an agreement to acquire a startup that’s already backed by its venture capital arm. SteelBrick Inc. is the startup in question, and Salesforce will pay $360 million to take control of it. “We have witnessed how Salesforce has pioneered the shift ...
Researchers claim the NSA hacked Juniper’s firewall software
Security researchers are claiming that two “backdoors” inserted into Juniper Networks Inc.’s security software code may have been put there by the National Security Agency (NSA) or another government agency. Juniper Networks went public with the troubling news that it had found “unauthorized code” in its ScreenOS operating system for firewalls last week, following an ...