US will tax Bitcoin as property, like stocks, rather than as currency
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has said it will treat Bitcoin as a form of property for tax purposes, rather than as currency, making it subject to similar rules as stocks and barter transactions. The new rules announced Tuesday appear to be good news for investors, because any gains they make from buying bitcoins will be treated as capital gains, which can mean lower tax rates. But they could also mean that people who spend bitcoins to buy goods and services will have to keep detailed records of those transactions.
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Google puts Amazon on notice with new Cloud Platform features
Google wants you to know that cloud computing will not be a one-horse race.
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Amazon adds search features, more languages to CloudSearch
Amazon Web Services' CloudSearch service has been upgraded with more search features and is now compatible with 33 languages. CloudSearch is a fully managed service that lets enterprises focus on adding search functionality to their applications rather than building basic search functionality, scaling it, and keeping it online, according to Amazon.
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SAP rolls out 'smart' new way to do data warehousing
SAP is continuing to merge its HANA in-memory database platform with its Business Warehouse data warehousing software, with the latest update adding support for HANA's real-time data loading services. Companies with large data warehouses often load information sets at off-peak times, such as in overnight batch jobs. But with the general availability of Business Warehouse 7.4, HANA's "smart data access" services can tap any source within or outside a company as it's needed. SAP is calling the approach an "in-memory data fabric."
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Info sec industry still struggles to attract women
Even as women have made dramatic advances in medicine, law, and other fields, the proportion of women pursuing undergraduate degrees in the computer sciences has actually been dropping, from around 30 percent in 1990 to 18 percent in 2010, according to the latest data from the National Science Foundation. As a result, according to the Census Bureau, women accounted for just 27 percent of computer science professionals down from 34 percent in 1990.
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Dell unveils fabric switch, SDN controller
Dell this week rolled out products designed to help customers build and scale cloud environments.The new gear includes the Dell Z9500 fabric switch and the Active Fabric Controller software for software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). Together, the products are intended to provide data centers with the scale, automation and orchestration necessary to transition to virtualized cloud infrastructures.
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SAP to resell Adobe's marketing suite in strike against Salesforce.com, Oracle
SAP has turned to long-time partner Adobe in a bid to keep pace with Oracle and Salesforce.com in the red-hot marketing software market. The companies announced a global agreement Tuesday under which SAP will resell Adobe's Marketing Cloud software suite along with SAP's Hana in-memory database platform and Hybris Commerce Suite.
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Microsoft's KB 2953095 Word security hole is part of ongoing embarrassment
Earlier this year, three researchers at Google told Microsoft about yet another RTF rendering security hole in Word.
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Cisco's Intercloud could supercharge its Internet of things plans
Cisco Systems' "Intercloud" platform for interoperable cloud services could be combined with remote-computing technology to define the so-called Internet of Things from the weather-ravaged, intermittently connected edge to regional and global data centers.
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Google Glass may get more stylish with help from Oakley and Ray-Ban
Google is looking to reach a wider audience for Glass with some design help from Oakley and Ray-Ban. Google announced Monday that it has partnered with the Luxottica Group, an Italian company that owns Ray-Ban, Oakley and other brands. Luxottica will help design, manufacture and distribute frames for Google Glass.
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ATM malware, controlled by a text message, spews cash
A group of enterprising cyber criminals have figured out how to get cash from a certain type of ATM -- by text message. The latest development was spotted by security vendor Symantec, which has periodically written about a type of malicious software it calls "Ploutus" that first appeared in Mexico.
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Box to go public, hoping to raise $250M
Box, the eight-year-old company that has taken on industry giants to become a leader in cloud storage and file sharing, will seek to raise $250 million by selling shares publicly for the first time. The Los Altos, California, company announced on Monday that it had filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO (initial public offering) of its common stock.
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