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Sony gave PlayStation fans a hefty sampling of what's coming to its gaming consoles this year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles It gave them a long look at a relatively few offerings in its Monday presentation -- a marked contrast from Microsoft's deluge of game announcements a day earlier....

News flash: Private cloud economics can offer more cost efficiency than public cloud pricing structures Private (or on-premises) cloud solutions can be more cost-effective than public cloud options, according to "Busting the Myths of Private Cloud Economics," a report 451 Research and Canonical released Wednesday. That conclusion counters the notio...

The gap between business-to-business buyers and sellers has been growing, according to CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group. Its survey of 500 B2B buyers at mid-to-large companies around the world delivered the following findings:...

Microsoft made a big splash at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles with its announcement of more than 50 games for its Xbox One gaming console Among the games unveiled by the company were 18 designed to run exclusively on Xbox, including Forza Horizon 4, Halo Infinite, Gears 5, Session, Below and Ashen....

Dimitri Akhrin is president of CRMDialer In this exclusive interview, Akhrin addresses the role of real-time responsiveness in achieving business success....

Microsoft sent tremors through the open source world last week, when it announced that it would acquire the popular developer platform GitHub for US$7.5 billion in company stock Microsoft will acquire GitHub subject to closing conditions and completion of regulatory review. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the calendar year....

Dell's most forward-looking people spoke about the future at Dell World a few weeks ago. One of the sessions I attended dovetailed with something that appears to be glaringly obvious -- to me, anyway -- which is that is that robots likely will be the next big technology wave. I then wandered around to find out what Dell was doing in robotics, an...

In the old information technology world, systems integration and consulting companies flourished, helping enterprises of all sizes across nearly every industry pull together a plethora of proprietary systems from a wide array of software and technology vendors Despite the promises of the cloud, not much has changed. While there may be fewer pure-pl...

Heather Reed is VP of business development for G2 Crowd, which offers a business software review platform designed to bring transparency to business-to-business buying In this exclusive interview, Reed discusses the problem with the use of terms like "girlboss" and the importance of gender inclusivity in the workplace....

No-fee mobile bank Chime recently announced a US$70 million Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Forerunner Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Northwestern Mutual, Crosslink Capital and Omidyar Network also participated Chime has valued its business at $500 million. With the Series C funding, the company has r...

Just when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was about to go into effect, the United States Congress created the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Overseas Use of Data) Without any public hearings, review, or public comment, Congress passed the legislation as part of the US$1.3 trillion government spending bill. The CLOUD Act cha...

"Caught short by Salesforce, SAP targets 'front office' market" is more revealing than SAP might like, but the headline on Reuters' story is appropriate to the announcements coming out of SAP's annual customer confab in Orlando, Florida. It describes SAP's new attempt to consolidate a group of about a dozen front office apps into a fully integrated customer relationship management suite -- next year...

Apple on Monday gave the world a peek at macOS Mojave, the next version of its operating system for Macintosh laptop and desktop computers. The preview took place at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California Mojave has a mix of new features that add to its good looks and utility as a...

Red Hat on Monday launched its Fuse 7 cloud-native integration solution and introduced Fuse Online, an alternative integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) Red Hat Fuse is a lightweight modular and flexible integration platform with a new-style enterprise service bus (ESB) to unlock information. It provides a single, unified platform across hybrid...

The next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 12, will include a new feature that allows you to customize the way Siri works with applications on phones and tablets. The announcement was one of the highlights at the kickoff of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Monday Call...

The most popular show on ABC was canceled last week because the star of the show, Roseanne Barr -- known for saying and writing stuff that would get most of us fired -- did exactly what she was known for doing and got fired. ABC now looks like it is run by idiots because, really, who didn't see this coming? The network now has to explain to its l...

With all the talk about cryptocurrencies, you might be wondering whether your e-commerce business should start accepting them as a form of payment There is no simple answer to that question. It all depends on the type of business you have and your tolerance for volatility and risk....

Oracle has been on a security campaign ever since Larry Ellison openly began discussing the new "autonomous database" -- so called because it can manage itself, including self-patching and upgrading, without human effort. The hands-off database can eliminate human labor to keep it tuned and running, according to Oracle, greatly reducing the time b...

Ninety-five percent of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45 percent of teens are almost constantly online -- but younger Internet users do not connect on Facebook as much as their older peers do, suggests a Pew Research Center study released Thursday. Although Facebook dominated social media across all age groups over the past decade, it has taken a backseat to YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat among today's teens...

SparkyLinux is experiencing growing pains. You could say that this very capable Linux distribution was just too much of a great thing to last....