Verizon teams with Oracle to tackle Amazon in the cloud
Verizon is building up its cloud service to take on the heavyweight of the industry -- Amazon Web Services -- and says it took a big step toward that direction by partnering with Oracle this week.
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2014 isn't looking any better for IT jobs
Despite adding almost 75,000 jobs over the course of 2013, the IT labor market is predicted to remain weak in 2014 due to hesitant CIO hiring forecasts and a generally poor job participation rate in the United States.
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Apple cleared by appeals court of using Motorola patents
Apple hasn't infringed on a disputed Motorola patent in its iPhone, an appeals court said Friday. The ruling is a blow to Motorola, which had petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., after an earlier ruling by the International Trade Commission.
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Hot IT job skills in 2014: Mobile, Web development, and big data
Expertise in Web development, mobile development, and large-scale data analysis will be much sought-after by IT hiring managers this year. The clients of Doug Schade, principal consultant in the software technology search division at hiring firm WinterWyman, are especially interested in Web developers who know open source languages. In addition to Java skills, Ruby and Python development backgrounds are desirable, reflecting a development trend that de-emphasizes Microsoft languages, he said.
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SAP's revenue mix is slowly shifting to cloud, preliminary figures show
SAP's business is gradually shifting to the SaaS (software as a service) model while sales of its Hana in-memory database platform continue to grow quickly, according to preliminary fourth-quarter and year-end results the company released Friday. Software revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 fell 2 percent on an IFRS (international financial reporting standards) basis to €1.9 billion ($2.58 billion), while cloud subscriptions and support jumped 66 percent to €209 million ($284 million), SAP said.
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Update: Target now says up to 110 million affected by data breach
Up to 110 million people, about a third of the U.S. population, may be affected by a data breach at retailer Target, nearly triple the number the company first estimated in mid-December. A Target spokeswoman clarified late Friday that a 70 million figure released earlier in the day was in addition to the 40 million people the company first estimated to be affected by the breach. It was unclear earlier if the 70 million included the original 40 million victims.
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Amazon makes it easier to submit mobile apps with new developer portal
Amazon.com has opened a new portal that aims to help developers create Android apps for its Appstore and take advantage of its cross-platform APIs with the help of better tools and documentation. The retailing giant seems hell-bent on giving Google a run for its money with the Appstore. In the last 10 months it has made its competitor to the Google Play Store available worldwide, adding the ability for developers to submit Web apps and sell physical goods in their apps.
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Facebook killing off 'sponsored stories' that some users hated
Facebook is pulling the plug on a controversial advertising program that served ads to people based on the activity of their friends, such as "Likes" and check-ins. On Thursday, the company said in its developers forum that it would be phasing out the ad type, which is called "sponsored stories," effective April 9. After that, advertisers will no longer be able to create such ads, the company said.
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Snapchat says sorry for the hack, with a tweak to its app
Snapchat has incorporated a phone number opt-out feature into its mobile app in response to a recent hacking incident -- the company's latest effort to convince users that their personal information is safe.
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FCC chief pushes open Internet, robust broadband networks
Keeping the Internet open is a high priority for the FCC -- so high that the agency will closely monitor the sponsored content program that AT&T announced this week for its mobile data network.In his first speech in Silicon Valley on Thursday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler laid out his Internet philosophy and made openness a key part of it.
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PC shipments in 2013 dropped precipitously -- and the future's murky
A year ago, Gartner and IDC predicted 2013 would be a lackluster but tolerable year for PC shipments
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Facebook's secret to shipping millions of lines of code each day
Say what you want about Facebook as a social network, but it makes for a fascinating case study in systems design and programming.
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CES 2014: Desperately seeking life after the PC
CES 2014 is coming to a close and could well be remembered as the show full of stuff nobody will ever buy -- or as Tested's Will Smith more bluntly put it: "It's mostly bull$%*t."
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