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IBM, Bon Appetit Deliver Watson Cooking App

IBM and Bon Appetit have collaborated to deliver a new cooking app called "Chef Watson with Bon Appetit."The app, which will initially be available...

Russia to Replace Intel, AMD Server Chips With ARM SoCs

The Russian government reportedly is pushing a program that would rid government systems of x86 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, opting instead...

Cisco Buys Browser-Based Collaboration Vendor Assemblage

Cisco Systems has bought Assemblage, a collaboration company whose technology lets people collaborate through the browser on any device, a move that company officials...

Cisco, Oracle, VCE Top Converged Infrastructure Vendors

The market for converged data center solutions from the likes of Cisco Systems, Oracle, VCE and IBM continues to grow rapidly, with revenue jumping...

Oracle Launches NFV Management Tool

Oracle is launching a tool designed to make it easier for communications service providers to manage and deploy services in a network-functions virtualization environment.Oracle...

Big Blue Adds New Big Data Service to IBM Cloud Marketplace

IBM announced the availability of a new big data service on the IBM Cloud marketplace, aimed at making enterprise content more interactive, usable and...

IBM, Toyota Team on Connected Car App Dev Platform

IBM announced that Toyota has selected Big Blue to create a new application development platform for mobile app developers to begin building interactive apps...

Acer Names New Chairman Amid Cloud Push

Acer replaced one co-founder with another as board chairman as the onetime PC powerhouse looks to build up its financial fortunes after several years...

SDN Consortium Adds 24 Startups to Its Membership List

The Open Networking Foundation in January, in an effort to encourage more small companies and startups to join the software-defined networking consortium, dropped its...

Oracle May Spend $5 Billion for Micros Systems, Report Says

Oracle reportedly is in the process of finalizing a deal to buy hospitality technology vendor Micros Systems for $5 billion, the latest move by...