It has taken 38 years, but the source code of MS-DOS version 4.00 has been made available by Microsoft and IBM. The rationale for this release was because former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie came across beta binaries on DOS floppy disks in his collection. The release stemmed from a correspondence wit... Read more
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The company that Farquhar founded with Mike Cannon-Brookes 23 years ago will soon have to do without his day-to-day involvement. Farquhar will step down as co-CEO on Aug. 31 of this year. Cannon-Brookes was the other co-CEO for all those years and will continue as sole CEO after Farquhar's depar... Read more
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Chromebook users can now use Microsoft 365 apps on their devices without having to open the browser without any problems. Google has enabled direct access through the Chromebook Files App. This feature, announced for ChromeOS last year, is now widely available. The goal is to make it easier for ... Read more
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In the first financial quarter, ServiceNow posted revenue of $2.6 billion, or about €2.4 billion. Exactly one year ago, ServiceNow posted revenue of nearly $2.1 billion. With that, the company saw its revenue increase 24 per cent year-on-year. The most revenue now comes from subscriptions; las... Read more
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The U.S. Senate has passed a bill requiring the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-approved buyer or risk a ban. President Biden has indicated that he will sign the bill to that effect. The Senate passed the proposal, formally known by the resounding name Protecting Am... Read more
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Microsoft today released the first version of a new series of super-small AI models: Phi-3 Mini. This so-called small language model (SLM) is small enough to easily run on a smartphone. The introduction of Phi-3 Mini follows a few months after Phi-2, which already contained relatively few parame... Read more
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SAP's focus on delivering more AI services to ease customers' cloud ERP transition seems to be paying off. In the first quarter of this year, the company saw its revenue increase. In the first quarter, SAP saw its revenue increase to 8.04 billion euros, eight percent more than in the same quarte... Read more
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TikTok finds itself once again in the crosshairs of the European Commission. The governing body is launching a formal investigation into the launch of TikTok Lite in France and Spain due to concerns about the 'Task and Reward Program' that is part of this app. This allows users to earn rewards by p... Read more
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Meta is renaming its VR platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third parties. Meta, leading sales figures in VR hardware by a country mile, hopes to create an ecosystem around its OS. Microsoft, Lenovo and Asus are already shuffling in. Previously, the operating system for Quest headse... Read more
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Update 22/04/2024 - Salesforce does not appear to have closed the deal with cloud data management firm Informatica. The companies can't agree on the terms of Salesforce's proposed acquisition. If the deal had gone through, it would have been one of the largest acquisitions Salesforce—already know... Read more
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