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Alcatel-Lucent Completes Sale of Enterprise Biz to Chinese Firm

Alcatel-Lucent has completed the sale of 85 percent of its enterprise networking and communications business to Chinese investment company China Huaxin, the latest move...

Microsoft’s Sway Generates Mobile-Optimized ‘Interactive Documents’

Microsoft seems determined to make static, slide-based presentations a thing of the past.The company today unveiled Office Sway, a new app that enables users...

Eight Key Open-Source Internet of Things Projects

Eight Key Open-Source Internet of Things Projects by Darryl K. Taft Node-RED: Visual Tool for IoT Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and...

Rackspace Joined Amazon in Patching, Rebooting Cloud Servers

Rackspace, like cloud competitor Amazon Web Services, was forced to reboot some of its servers after patching them to fix a security flaw in...

Ello’s Halo: Why New Social Networks Get So Much Attention

Everybody's talking about the new social network in town. It's called Ello. And it's billed as the anti-Facebook.Ello promises to never show ads, never...

Oracle Launches Analytics Cloud, Joins Cloud Pricing Wars

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle OpenWorld 2014 at the Moscone Center is first about entertaining many of the company's 400,000 customers. Secondly, it's about setting the scene...

eBay, PayPal to Split Up in 2015 as Separate Companies

eBay and PayPal are splitting up after 12 years of a convenient marriage in 2002 that had brought together a successful online auction company...

Intel, Cisco, HP, Others Form NFV Consortium

A wide range of technology vendors and telecommunications companies—from Intel, IBM and Cisco Systems to AT&T, China Mobile and Ericsson—are creating a consortium aimed...

Cisco to Invest Another $1 Billion in Intercloud Initiative

Cisco Systems officials are seeing growing momentum behind the company's Intercloud initiative—including with more than 30 new companies joining in on the effort—and the...

Microsoft Teams Up With Security Group to Fight Cyber ‘Bank Robbers’

In a bid to stem the rise of malware-aided fraud, particularly online, Microsoft is lending the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC)...