Oracle acquires Netsuite in $9.3bn deal
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd called Oracle and Netsuite ‘complementary’ cloud applications. Read More
Symbolic IO and the limits of compression
A start-up offering a “computational defined storage solution” which they claim offers the “fastest, most dense, portable and secure, media and hardware agnostic” storage solution. has hit the market. Too good to be true? I look at their patents to divine the secret sauce. Read More
LG mobile division bleeds $136m amid record profits
LG Electronics’ mobile division saw an operating loss of 153.5 billion won ($136 million), being the thorn in an otherwise successful second quarter. Read More
Is the Indian IT services dream coming to an end?
As their world is becoming increasingly disrupted by the cloud and artificial intelligence, Indian outfits will have to evolve into something higher up the value chain to survive. Read More
Dropbox adds more security, collaboration controls to woo the enterprise
Most notable among the new features is the ability for admins to control folder access down the sub-folder level. Read More
SAP achieves double-digit growth in Brazil
The software giant reports a sales boost for the second quarter despite the country’s current recession. Read More
Should you unplug your smartphone charger when it’s not in use?
How many smartphone and tablet chargers do you have? Ever wonder how much it’s costing you to leave them plugged in 24/7, or whether you should unplug them when they’re not in use? Read More
Apple touts giant iPad deal as part of enterprise push
Another 22,000 iPads for a bank that has already bought 10,000. Read More
How Android ‘switchers,’ a cheap iPhone, and the expensive iPad Pro saved Apple
Q3 2016 is probably the most interesting financial quarter Apple has had in a long time, and despite falling hardware sales across the board, Wall Street is happy with the end result. Here’s why. Read More
Commonwealth to invest AU$7m in the NCI for supercomputing research
The federal government has announced a AU$7 million boost for Australia’s national research computing service to accelerate results and further its research in supercomputing. Read More