SAP is looking to recruit people with autism as programmers and product testers, drawing on skills that can include a close attention to detail and an ability to solve complex problems. SAP has asked start-up Danish recruitment company Specialisterne to help it find, train and manage employees diagnosed with the disability.
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HP’s revenue for the quarter, ended April 30, was $27.6 billion, down 10% from the same period last year, the company announced Wednesday. The company is battling to turn itself around after some strategic missteps, but it’s doing so against the headwinds of a shrinking PC market and lackluster economy. Revenue from HP’s massive PC division fell 10% in the quarter, led by a steep drop in laptop sales. Its printer division held more or less steady, with sales down 1%, HP said.
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The Galaxy S4 features a 5-inch full HD Super AMOLED display with 441 pixels per inch, and a dual camera function that allows simultaneous use of both front and rear cameras, besides software such as Air ViewA and A Air Gesture that aim to simplify interaction with the phone including through hand gestures. Samsung is also planning to introduce more color variations of the device. In addition to the currently available White Mist and Black Forest, new color iterations will be added this summer, including Blue Arctic and Red Aurora, followed by Purple Mirage and Brown Autumn, the company said.
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The less expensive touch models, the $399 Pavilion TouchSmart with an 11.6-inch screen and the $529 Envy TouchSmart 15 with a 15.6-inch screen, have Advanced Micro Devices’ latest chips. New AMD chips code-named Kabini, Temash and Richland were announced on Thursday.
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Location-based services are experiencing a huge upswing. This API makes determining user locations faster and more accurate while using far less power than existing APIs; a Geofencing API allows developers to limit the use of an app within certain physical boundaries; and an Activity Recognition API lets users track their physical activities.
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Windows 8 has not found wide adoption among desktop users, so HP has announced a new portable all-in-one and lowered the price of touch PCs so users can take advantage of the operating system.
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Software maker Oracle Corp., ORCL -0.23% for instance, disclosed more than 400 subsidiaries in its 2010 annual report. By 2012 the list had been whittled to eight—five of which were located in Ireland. Oracle declined to comment… In its 2009 annual report, Google reported more than 100 subsidiaries, including 81 overseas in places like Bermuda, Hong Kong and the Netherlands Antilles. Over the past three years, the number dropped to two units—both based in Ireland. A Google spokesperson said the company is in compliance with SEC rules regarding the disclosure of subsidiaries… Microsoft Corp., MSFT -1.71% which once disclosed more than 100 subsidiaries, reported just 13 in its 2003 annual report and 11 in its 2012 report. A 2012 Senate committee report said the technology giant had shifted intellectual property to subsidiaries in Singapore, Ireland and Puerto Rico to avoid roughly $4 billion in U.S. taxes in 2011. A Microsoft spokesman said the company began to apply the SEC crite…
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Big data is set to transform the way companies manage their relationships with their customers and CIOs need to start planning now, claims analyst group Gartner.
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He said that there was always ‘dark data’ but it is only recently that open source technologies like Hadoop have enabled enterprises to mine such data. Yet, there are many challenges before big data such as software maturity, skills deficiency, security, risk and reusability. However, Chandrasekaran cautioned, big data should not come at a big cost.
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HDP allows users to deploy Hadoop on Windows Server in their own datacenters — the same way they can already deploy HDP 1.2 on several Linux distributions. Microsoft and Hortonworks are touting HDP for Windows as offering an easy migration path to HDInsight.
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GraphLab software is already being used for millions of recommendations in popular consumer services on a daily basis, the fledgling company asserts. GraphLab-the-company wants to capitalize on the success of GraphLab-the-open-source-project by building a commercial product for applying advanced machine-learning to massive graph datasets, referring to its platform as a “Hadoop but for graphs” on a high level. The company promises to continue actively supporting the open-source project.
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Because enterprise customers increasingly pursue hybrid IT models, most large software vendors are likely to offer licensing and some kind of subscription model for some time to come. “If the customer wants a traditional license and wants to run it themselves on premise, then absolutely we’re happy to do it that way,” BMC’s Berryman says. “And if customers want it as a service, we can offer it that way as well.”
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Emerging hybrid models bring new challenges: A range of business models, from the traditional licensed software to pure SaaS to hybrid approaches, will co-exist and face a host of challenges for the foreseeable future. Identifying the right model without losing market share has become a major focus. Subscription models increase dependency on renewals and risk of customer turnover, making service levels and strategic pricing two of the most crucial components of software sales cycle.
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FedRAMP cloud security assessment, making it one of the first commercial cloud providers to be certified for no-fuss adoption across government. Amazon announced Tuesday that it has received “authority to operate,” essentially a green light to offer its services, under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. Uncle Sam launched FedRAMP in 2010 to streamline the process of determining whether cloud services meet federal security requirements. In December 2012, Autonomic Resources LLC became the first cloud vendor to be approved under the program.
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A look inside Open Web, Dice’s latest sourcing tool, reveals the combination of skills hiring managers search for along with Hadoop. The number one combination by a large margin — Hadoop and Java — not too surprising given it’s a Java based framework. That’s closely followed by NoSQL at number three. According to the Dice Salary Survey, those professionals with Hadoop and NoSQL experience pulled in more than $100,000 on average.
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The computer and printer giant (NYSE: HPQ) recorded $31,031,000,000 worth of goodwill on its balance sheet as of Jan. 31, putting it at the top of a list of big Bay Area businesses that have grown by acquisitions.
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VMware would be “the first and only cloud provider” to offer SAP’s popular and pricey software on a monthly subscription plan, including SAP’s Oracle-killer HANA database. Monthly subscription pricing of its software is something that SAP doesn’t even offer its customers of its own brand-new cloud. Fathers offered no other details and neither company released a formal press announcement.
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Microsoft’s latest console can stream live television, though officials were coy on the details. It will make video calls over Microsoft’s Skype service. And it will offer new, exclusive content — including a television series produced by Steven Spielberg, based on the company’s “Halo” video game series, and a partnership with the NFL that will provide fans with live access to their fantasy football stats. Even the device’s name, the Xbox One, indicates the company is moving beyond the gaming sphere, said Forrester analyst James McQuivey. “They’re trying to make it clear that this is a restart of the whole category,” McQuivey said. “It makes it about blending gaming with everything else that you may want to do in your living room.”
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“how do you know we’re not striving for world class when we haven’t disclosed much information? “
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To deflect criticism that Yahoo has acquired startups in the past, such as Flickr, that were neglected by top management and added little to Yahoo’s revenue, Mayer said she wants the Tumblr deal to resemble Google’s acquisition of YouTube and eBay’s purchase of PayPal – examples of how keeping acquired companies autonomous can add customers and revenue. Tumblr “has a great thing going,” Mayer said. Yahoo “will operate Tumblr independently. The product road map, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.”
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Microsoft is bound to play up the non-gaming entertainment features of the new console, focusing on streaming video, Skype calling, and deeper integration with other devices and services.
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For Bill Gates, technology is still the solution. He shows Charlie Rose some inventions he’s working on to help heal the world.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has bought himself some time, perhaps until Tuesday, to try get the immigration bill changed to the liking of the tech industry. Negotiations are underway to come up with a compromise where Hatch gets a block of amendments and, in return, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), gets Hatch’s support for the entire immigration bill, according to sources. Schumer is one of the leaders of the so-called “gang of eight,” the bipartisan group that developed the comprehensive immigration bill.
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So you have four or five exchanges that are racing to get all the licenses, because the prize at the end is going to be U.S. customers.
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