Industry

Ellison says IBM and SAP no longer Oracle’s main rivals

Ellison says Oracle's not late to the cloud, it's just a bigger contender than most

Cisco unveils ‘fog computing’ to bridge clouds and the Internet of Things

It will add Linux to small edge routers to help crunch data coming from devices in the field

AMD debuts first ARM processor

Samples of the Opteron four- and eight-core, 64-bit A1100 Series ARM processors will ship to AMD partners this quarter

Dell’s Cloud Connect thin client provides business Android on a stick

Wyse Cloud Connect thin client deploys Android for enterprise, but real competition is tablets and smartphones, not PC-on-a-stick rivals

Microsoft joins ARM server effort

ARM versions of products like Windows Server and Hyper-V could be in the works

Yahoo reports another sales decline as ads sag

CEO Marissa Mayer cited the company's investments and acquisitions as laying a foundation for revenue growth

YAHOO hit by lagging ad revs, Alibaba — APPLE turns to Enterprise, AppleTV — FACEBOOK’s open infrastructure — The sad story of @N

German government faces legal action over NSA spying

Several people and organizations are suing the German government for allegedly aided the NSA in its data collection program

MSVCR80.dll errors and other problems plague iTunes 11.1.14 on Windows

Windows-based iTunes customers report problems with the latest update, and solving the issues can be a complex process

Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system

Blu-ray fits the bill for infrequently accessed data, reducing costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent, Facebook says