Adobe’s Scott Belsky says that augmented reality will be as big or bigger than the Web itself. “Augmented reality, to me, is the next major medium,” says Belsky. “I actually would go on the record saying that I think someday AR will be as big, if not bigger, than the Web because it will literally […]
SAP CEO Bill McDermott, in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg talked about enterprises moving to the cloud, competing with Oracle’s new autonomous database, competing with Salesforce, and its huge business in China: SAP Has Taken Over the Enterprise Database Market Do you have a major move to the cloud? If legacy companies haven’t fully invested
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison says that Amazon does not even use their own database to run their business. “Amazon runs their entire business on top of Oracle, on top of the Oracle Database,” Ellison said. “They have been unable to migrate to AWS because it is not good enough.” Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder, discussed why
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd says that because they have a founder like Larry Ellison they are focused on generational changes. “At the end of the day what’s in our DNA deeply is to build for the future,” said Hurd. Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, discussed Oracle’s growth strategy in an interview earlier today: We have a
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Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at 2018 International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Brussels last night and gave a bold and possibly controversial privacy speech. Cook directly challenged Facebook, and tech companies in general, to change their perspective on privacy. He also said that Apple is fully supportive of ‘a comprehensive federal
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison introduced the Generation 2 Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld 2018 yesterday with a primary emphasis on security. “Other clouds have been around for a long time, and they were not designed for the enterprise,” Ellison said. “We will never put our cloud control code in the same computer that has customer code.” Oracle’s
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There was a session at the recent GeekWire Summit on how the IoT explosion will impact retail stores where underpants were discussed. It’s humous but very illustrative of how every item in every store, electronic or not, will be tracked in order to provide personalized shopping experiences and to bring massive efficiencies to the supply
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Facebook has created a War Room ahead of the midterm election that is filled with data scientists and specialists trying to stop the spread of what it considers fake news. However, conservatives on YouTube see this as really an attempt to stop the spread of conservative thought. “Calling it the “Department of Censorship” would have
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Oracle just released a new video commercial for the Oracle Autonomous Database featuring Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer Larry Ellison: The world’s first and only fully autonomous database. Oracle Autonomous Database is 100% self-driving. It needs no human intervention. The Oracle autonomous database continuously tunes itself. This makes it faster and much cheaper
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Facebook’s announcement last Friday that 50 million of its user accounts were compromised by hackers only emphasizes how vulnerable our data is and how little control we have over who gets to see it. This is not what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he created the world wide web back in the 1980s. However, the esteemed engineer’s
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