Boo! iPhone 7 hissing for some customers

Between the new AirPods and stereo speakers, audio was one of the biggest stories with the new Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. But it was hissing sounds reportedly coming from the new phones when their A10 Fusion CPU is under heavy load that were grabbing headlines over the weekend.Apple hasn't formally addressed the reported hissing sounds yet, though has responded to customer complaints, which have started popping up online since the smartphone became available on Friday.  Twitter Supposedly you do have to put the phones right up to your ear to really hear the hissing sound, but nevertheless, the noise is worrisome for those who just plunked down hundreds for the device.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SAP woos SMB developers with an ‘express’ edition of Hana

SAP has made no secret of the fact that its bets for the future rest largely on its Hana in-memory computing platform. But broad adoption is a critical part of making those bets pay off.Aiming to make Hana more accessible to companies of all shapes and sizes, the enterprise software giant on Monday unveiled a downloadable "express" edition that developers can use for free.The new express edition of SAP Hana can be used free of charge on a laptop or PC to develop, test and deploy production applications that use up to 32 GB of memory; users who need more memory can upgrade for a fee. Either way, the software delivers database, application and advanced analytics services, allowing developers to build applications that use Hana's transactional and analytical processing against a single copy of data, whether structured or unstructured.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 9.19.16

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.ContempoKey features: Contempo is a real-time political news app: swipe left for “the left” and right for “the right.” Integration with Rock the Vote provides an opportunity to register to vote, check registration status. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 9.19.16

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.ContempoKey features: Contempo is a real-time political news app: swipe left for “the left” and right for “the right.” Integration with Rock the Vote provides an opportunity to register to vote, check registration status. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Is the relational database model dead?

I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a supplier of database technology trying to arrange a briefing prior to the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld. The come-on was based upon the notion that the needs of big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and the tremendous growth of smartphones, tablets and other intelligent devices have overcome the capabilities offered by relational database engines, such as those offered by Oracle.+ Also on Network World: Does 'share-nothing' NoSQL signal the end to system resources sharing? +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Is the relational database model dead?

I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a supplier of database technology trying to arrange a briefing prior to the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld. The come-on was based upon the notion that the needs of big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and the tremendous growth of smartphones, tablets and other intelligent devices have overcome the capabilities offered by relational database engines, such as those offered by Oracle.+ Also on Network World: Does 'share-nothing' NoSQL signal the end to system resources sharing? +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The Cost of Networking Has Not Declined

One of the common taglines parroted by SDN aficionados goes along the lines of “The cost to acquire and manage server and storage architectures has declined over time while networking stays stubbornly expensive.” (I took it straight from an anonymous blog comment).

Let’s see how well it matches reality.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 23rd, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time:

 

Will Minority Report for developers really help us program better? (Primitive)

 

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  • October 2017: ICANN changes the DNSSEC root keys; $2.91M: cost of running Let's Encrypt; 20%: Amazon convenience tax; 100%: increase in spam; 6.2 km: Quantum teleportation across a metropolitan fibre network; March 18, 1982: birth of containers; 6 months: how long a lightening bolt can power a 60 watt bulb; trillions: EV cache hits per day @ Netflix; 5x: Spark is faster than MapReduce; billions: HTTP, Git and SSH connections served per day at GitHub; 28: # of websites in North Korea; 

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @vgcerf: It is time to admit after 18 years that the multistakeholder model of Internet operation works. #yestoIANA
    • @EricLathrop: Netflix found a 5x performance variation between AWS instances at the same price! They benchmark to avoid overpaying. @indirect #Strangeloop
    • @swardley: Perfectly reasonable @NigelBarron. Larry's statements are ludicrous, play is to milk existing customers whilst hoping to find a new future.
    • @BethanyMacri: Etsy is very anti-SOA. Monolith forever!
    • janfoeh: I've said it before Continue reading

Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering

Larry Ellison has a message for Amazon Web Services: Oracle is going to give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market."Amazon's lead is over," he said during his keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. "Amazon's going to have serious competition going forward."To that end, the company he co-founded is launching a set of new cloud datacenters that are aimed at providing more powerful compute instances to help it compete against the likes of AWS, Azure and other cloud players. The generation 2 datacenters will be capable of bringing a variety of performance improvements to customers who want to run high-performance workloads in the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel’s new PC, IoT chief brings fresh ideas to the veteran chip maker

Intel is now more than just a PC company. At industry events, the company's keynotes feature drones flying around, robots walking on stage and musicians creating tunes from wearables. The chip maker is helping BMW build an autonomous car, will sell modems to Apple, and is leading the development of next-generation 5G cellular networks. For all these new markets, it will provide chip and data-center technologies. The transformation is happening partly under the leadership of Venkata Renduchintala, president of the Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group at Intel. As Intel's second-in-command, he helped cut struggling products like mobile CPUs and sharpened the company's focus on IoT, servers, and connectivity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Oracle will acquire cloud security vendor Palerra

Oracle has agreed to acquire Palerra, a vendor of software for securing cloud services, as part of its strategy to provide customers comprehensive identity and security cloud servicesPalerra offers a Cloud Access Security Broker product called Loric that offers a combination of visibility into cloud usage, data security, user behavior analytics, and security configuration, with automated incident responses."We think this is an important addition to our overall cloud security portfolio," Larry Ellison, Oracle's  executive chairman and chief technology officer said in his keynote Sunday at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.  "It [Security] is job one at Oracle. We'll keep building, and when we find a supplier out there who is doing good work, we'll buy them."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Oracle will acquire cloud security vendor Palerra

Oracle has agreed to acquire Palerra, a vendor of software for securing cloud services, as part of its strategy to provide customers comprehensive identity and security cloud servicesPalerra offers a Cloud Access Security Broker product called Loric that offers a combination of visibility into cloud usage, data security, user behavior analytics, and security configuration, with automated incident responses."We think this is an important addition to our overall cloud security portfolio," Larry Ellison, Oracle's  executive chairman and chief technology officer said in his keynote Sunday at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.  "It [Security] is job one at Oracle. We'll keep building, and when we find a supplier out there who is doing good work, we'll buy them."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Why Snowden won’t be pardoned

Edward Snowden (NSA leakerblower) won’t be pardoned. I’m not arguing that he shouldn’t be pardoned, but that he won’t be pardoned. The chances are near zero, and the pro-pardon crowd doesn't seem to be doing anything to cange this. This post lists a bunch of reasons why. If your goal is to get him pardoned, these are the sorts of things you’ll have to overcome.

The tl;dr list is this:
  • Obama hates whistleblowers
  • Obama loves the NSA
  • A pardon would be betrayal
  • Snowden leaked because he was disgruntled, not because he was a man of conscience (***)
  • Snowden hasn’t yet been convicted
  • Snowden leaked too much
  • Snowden helped Russian intelligence
  • Nothing was found to be illegal or unconstitutional


Obama hates whistleblowers

Obama campaigned promising to be the most transparent president in history. Among his campaign promises are:

Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower Continue reading

Salesforce is betting its Einstein AI will make CRM better

If there was any doubt that AI has officially arrived in the world of enterprise software, Salesforce just put it to rest. The CRM giant on Sunday announced Einstein, a set of artificial intelligence capabilities it says will help users of its platform serve their customers better.AI's potential to augment human capabilities has already been proven in multiple areas, but tapping it for a specific business purpose isn't always straightforward. "AI is out of reach for the vast majority of companies because it's really hard," John Ball, general manager for Salesforce Einstein, said in a press conference last week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Valve nukes Digital Homicide’s games after developer sues to unmask 100 Steam users

If you write a negative review for a game, is that harassment? It is according to game developer Digital Homicide which is suing 100 Steam users for $18 million.After Digital Homicide developer James Romine filed a lawsuit, an Arizona judge granted a subpoena to obtain the personal “identification and associated data” of 100 anonymous Steam users. Romine alleges that the Steam group of Jane and John Does created a “hate and harassment group, Digital Homicides Poop Games.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Valve nukes Digital Homicide’s games after developer sues to unmask 100 Steam users

If you write a negative review for a game, is that harassment? It is according to game developer Digital Homicide which is suing 100 Steam users for $18 million.After Digital Homicide developer James Romine filed a lawsuit, an Arizona judge granted a subpoena to obtain the personal “identification and associated data” of 100 anonymous Steam users. Romine alleges that the Steam group of Jane and John Does created a “hate and harassment group, Digital Homicides Poop Games.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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