Technology Industry

Oracle makes its big data push even bigger

Oracle's family of products for analyzing massive and varied data streams keeps growing

Offshore IT service providers are the leading users of L-1 visas

The IEEE-USA is calling for reform of the L-1 visa program, which unlike the H-1B visa has no cap or prevailing wage requirement

How to master disruptive technologies

Upsetting the status quo is exactly the point, as companies dive into social networking, the cloud and more

Apple sells record 9 million iPhones, blowing past expectations

Despite reports of manufacturing glitches severely hampering sales, Apple sells nearly twice as many new iPhones as a year ago

LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

A lawsuit charges that the company breaks into email accounts of its members to gather contacts' addresses

iPHONE sales break records, hackers break fingerprint security — Microsoft unveils Surface 2 — PAYPAL checks out Braintree — ELLISON goes to Plaid

Internet threat level rises on expanded IE attacks

Gang responsible for Bit9 hack in February is responsible for latest attacks exploiting IE 'zero-day,' says FireEye after threat level moves to 'Yellow'

German hackers say old technique can bypass Apple’s Touch ID

A high-quality scan of a person's finger and a bit of latex -- an old technique -- can defeat Touch ID, the Chaos Computer Club claims

Oracle claims Java SE, ME convergence is boon for developers

There's a stronger focus on Java use in embedded systems, plus praise for improving Java 8 via Project Lambda

Oracle’s Ellison promises ‘ungodly’ database speed with new in-memory option

Ellison also announced a new high-memory server appliance