Firefox brings its app store to brave Android users
Mozilla has opened its Firefox Marketplace app store for the first time in its latest test Aurora build of the browser for Android, asking early adopters and developers for their feedback.
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HP mates Autonomy with Vertica
HP has wrapped Autonomy's technology around its Vertica data analytics to create Idol 10, a structured and unstructured analysis engine, and announced three bespoke Autonomy appliances
Oracle Fusion apps go on general release
After six years in development and missing a scheduled release date, the Fusion suite of mix-and-match software goes on public sale in private and public cloud formats
Oracle enters BI with Exalytics appliance
Oracle has added to its Exa- family of products with an in-memory integrated hardware and software appliance, designed to support low-latency high-throughput data analytics
Microsoft adds software distribution to Windows Intune
Microsoft has given Windows Intune the ability to remotely distribute and install software applications via its Azure cloud, as well as boosting security, management and update features
Firefox 5 update aims to fix Mac OS X bugs
Mozilla is preparing to release an out-of-band patch for Firefox 5 for Mac, after finding bugs in Leopard and Lion OS X that can crash the browser
Google+ clears the decks for business service
While Google scales up its consumer trial, it has plans for a separate business service, and is cracking down on companies that have created profiles in a bid to keep the two realms distinct
Yahoo makes Hadoop team independent
The move will create an independent company, Hortonworks, which will produce its own commercial distribution of the data analytics framework, as well as continuing to contribute open-source code
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft ally for better search results
The search rivals have set up a collaborative project to create a standard for HTML markup tags, which should lead to more relevant search results
EMC taps MapR technology for Hadoop distro
The storage specialist will use technology from MapR for its own enterprise Hadoop distribution and for its Greenplum data-analytics appliances, turning its back on partner Cloudera