Two pilots aboard a solar-powered aircraft took off at 7:12 a.m. local time from Abu Dhabi for the first leg of what they…
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MIT wishes it could deliver acceptance letters via drone
MIT wants prospective students to know that it’s fully aboard the drone bandwagon, parlaying an army of delivery drones (and computer-generated imagery) for…
Read MoreHow to get (and keep) girls jazzed about programming
Much has been written about the need to involve girls in coding, but the best path to success is to get them excited…
Read MoreSAP to trim jobs and redeploy resources
Enterprise software giant SAP could cut up to 2,200 jobs (three percent of its 74,000 employees) in a move to rebalance employment around…
Read MoreStrange bedfellows: Amazon sets up shop on Alibaba site
Amazon.com has opened an online presence on rival Alibaba’s Tmall superstore, according to Reuters and other outlets citing an Alibaba spokesman. [company]Amazon[/company] and [company]Alibaba[/company] are both…
Read MoreMicrosoft queues up DocumentDB for broad availability
Microsoft continues to fill in the check boxes for its Azure cloud. Example: Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s take on NoSQL databases a la…
Read MoreMicrosoft faces specter of shelfware in the cloud era
The notion that pay-as-you-go cloud computing will eliminate shelfware — paid-for but unused computing resources — has always been suspect. Last year I wrote…
Read MoreNew Relic drafts former Oracle exec to lead biz dev
New Relic has named John Gray, a former long-time channel exec for Oracle, as its new SVP of business development. Gray, who…
Read MoreThe Hadoop wars, HP cloud(s) and IBM’s big win
If you are confused about Hewlett-Packard’s cloud plan of action, this week’s guest will lay it out for you. Bill Hilf, the…
Read MoreGoogle gets chatty about live migration while AWS stays mum
On Monday, Amazon wanted us to know that its staff worked day and night to avert planned reboots of cloud instances and updated…
Read MoreIBM taps OpenPOWER for SoftLayer bare-metal service
IBM is a big backer of the OpenPOWER open-source hardware project. And it’s the company behind the SoftLayer cloud, so it was only…
Read MoreIf you thought cloud competition couldn’t get hotter, think again
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened a data center hub in Silicon Valley, adding yet another gigantic player to a growing, but already hotly-contested cloud…
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