Industry

Facebook goes open source with Presto query engine for big data

The SQL engine can sift through petabytes of data and swiftly return query results, according to the company

Twitter’s transformation: Ugly duckling is now Internet swan

On eve of its IPO, it's easy to forget how far Twitter has come -- and how much it's changed our dialog

Red Hat aims for enterprise OpenStack deployment dominance

Red Hat Enterprise Linux integration could ease OpenStack adoption, but complexity and cloud competition stand in the way

Cisco takes fight to SDNs with bold Insieme launch

Cisco the offerings will give data centers and cloud providers unobstructed visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual networked IT resources built around the needs of apps

EMC sues startup for stealing trade secrets through staff hires

Pure Storage counters that the suit is a 'sideshow' to real competition between Pure and EMC over all-flash storage

Cisco weighs in for multi-gigabit addition to Wi-Fi

The wireless LAN giant is partnering with WiGig chip maker Wilocity to integrate the technology with Wi-Fi into enterprise infrastructures

Amazon ushers in graphics as a service

Amazon clouds adds Nvidia-backed G2 instances, which Mozilla wants to use to stream apps everywhere via HTML5, JavaScript

MICROSOFT taking own sweet time in CEO pick — APPLE discloses gov’t data requests — BITCOIN smashes record — TCP Port 0 mystery — ADOBE’S password disaster

iPhone 5s props up Apple’s market share in China, but Samsung still leads

Samsung's smartphone shipments soared by 156 percent year-over-year in the quarter

Google+ gains new controls to give business users more privacy

New 'restricted communities' are designed to let companies share information securely