Visa uses IBM Blockchain Platform for global payment platform
Visa announced today that it is entering into a partnership with IBM. Next year, the company plans to launch a blockchain-built global payment platform, B2B Connect. This will be integrated with the IBM Blockchain Platform, which was developed on the basis of the open source ethereum technology.
Vis...
Linus Torvalds again head of Linux organization
Linus Torvalds decided a few weeks ago to reconsider his role in the Linux community. Today, however, he appears to be back in full control of the organisation. The hope of developers will be that there is a friendlier Torvalds.
During the Open Source Summit Europe in Scotland, Torvalds appeared for...
Also AWS and Super Micro want Bloomberg to rectify story about Chinese spy chips
After Apple's Tim Cook asked Bloomberg yesterday to withdraw his story about Chinese espionage chips, now the CEOs of Amazon Web Services and server manufacturer Super Micro are also doing so. Earlier Bloomberg stated that Chinese microchips had compromised the computer networks of as many as thirty...
Microsoft shows roadmap of Visual Studio 2019
Microsoft Visual Studio will be equipped with dozens of new features and updates in the coming months. This is evident from a recently published roadmap with a step-by-step overview of the most important changes, as planned, from October 2018 to March 2019.
The software vendor has responded to a num...
Oracle HCM Cloud keeps employees motivated with AI
At its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle was blowing new life into its entire software portfolio. Among other things, it is expanding its HCM Cloud with new AI tools to help with the recruitment process and reduce staff turnover.
The ever-changing expectations of candidates and employees...
SWIFT will use Microsoft Azure for payments
Microsoft has announced a partnership with SWIFT. SWIFT is now going to use Azure to make payment transfers, reports ZDNet.
SWIFT is a payment messaging service that processes payment messages for over 11,000 financial organisations in over 200 countries. Currently, these transactions are processed...
SAP brings Commerce Cloud to SME segment
SAP has launched Upscale Commerce, which will enable the company to enter the SME market segment. The company also introduced the SAP Extension Factory, a new feature for the Cloud Platform.
Upscale Commerce is a solution that allows users to start small and pay according to growth. The SaaS-based p...
HPE enhances data protection for hybrid cloud environments
HPE comes with extensions to the StorOnce and Nimble portfolios to further optimize data protection and copy data management for hybrid cloud environments. Also ties with supplier Commvault will be further strengthened.
The functionality now added by the vendor to both storage application portfolios...
Atlassian equities down despite positive quarterly results
Atlassian achieved a turnover of $267.3 million in the first quarter of its financial year, a 37 percent increase over the previous year. Although this exceeded analysts' expectations, the value of the shares still fell. That's what Silicon Angle reports.
The company achieved a profit of $49.2 mill...
Microsoft’s new release app Spend released for iOS
Microsoft released a new app for iOS: Spend. The app automatically lets users track their business expenses. The app was created by the team behind MileIQ, which created a similar app for tracking mileage. The company behind that app was taken over by Microsoft a few years ago.
Spend is the result o...
Microsoft patches Spectre without performance loss in next Windows 10 update
Microsoft is implementing a solution to the performance issues with Windows 10 as a result of the Spectre patches rolled out at the beginning of this year. The solution will be part of the next feature update in the first half of 2019 (19H1).
We have enabled retpoline on our 19H1 flights by default,...
Kaspersky discovers NSA malware DarkPulsar on multiple devices
Kaspersky Lab reports today that it has discovered computers infected with DarkPulsar. This is malware that is rumoured to have been developed by the American National Security Agency (NSA). Networks in Egypt, Iran and Russia would have to deal with the malware.
That's what researchers at Kaspersky ...