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Oracle recently announced that it has enhanced its Oracle Cloud Platform with 24 new cloud services. Newly available cloud services are Oracle Database Cloud – Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud and Oracle Process Cloud. The Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers move on-premises workloads to the cloud with no modification of the application. The Oracle Database Cloud – Exadata Service extends the Exadata database platform to the cloud. Like in on-premises Exadata instances, customers can run production Exadata instances in the cloud,…

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Bug bounty programme is first of its kind for US airline industry United Airlines has set up a bug bounty programme, which rewards hackers with air miles, in a bid to beef up its cyber security standing. With traditional bug bounty programmes, when hackers or researchers find a flaw, rather than exploiting it, they receive a monetary reward for reporting it. United Airlines has opted for a different route. Instead of money, the firm is paying out air miles for bug reports. It is believed to be the first ever…

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 Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) today announces that THOR 7, which was successfully launched into geostationary transfer orbit on board an Ariane 5 launcher on April 26, 2015, has now completed its in-orbit testing and reached its final orbital location at 1°West. The THOR 7 satellite was officially handed over to TSBc’s satellite control centre at 5pm on June 16, 2015. (Oslo, Norway, June 22, 2015) With the handover complete, the THOR 7 Ku-band payload, dedicated to DTH services, is now ready for commercial operation. THOR 7’s Ku-band payload of 11…

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Hannes Ametsreiter has asked Telekom Austria’s supervisory board for a mutually agreed premature termination of his contract. It has now been mutually agreed that he will resign as CEO of Telekom Austria, as well as CEO of A1 Telekom Austria, on July 31. Commenting on the development, Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer, chairman of the supervisory board, said: “On behalf of the supervisory board I would like to express our thanks to Hannes Ametsreiter for running the business through quite challenging times, also in the transition phase of Telekom Austria Group becoming an…

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BlackBerry Limited , a global leader in mobile communications, announced today that CarePartners has chosen CellTrak’s VisitManage solution, running on BlackBerry 10 smartphones and managed by BES12: a multi-OS EMM solution by BlackBerry, to mobilize their home care providers. CarePartners is a home care nursing agency that provides personal support services, rehabilitation services, and nursing care to over 70,000 patients each year. CarePartners issued BlackBerry 10 smartphones provisioned with CellTrak’s VisitManager mobile healthcare management application to over 4,000 employees in their mobile workforce. VisitManager enables CarePartners’ home care providers to…

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  Right from the first look, the BlackBerry Passport design has been turning heads. From enthusiastic media and user reviews to various awards earned, it’s clear the BlackBerry Passport has made a huge impact with its unique form factor. Late last month, the BlackBerry Passport proved its design excellence in the most important competition for product design, Red Dot Product Design 2015. The Red Dot: Best of the Best is awarded for innovative design and is the highest individual award in the Red Dot Award: Product Design category. Only the…

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BlackBerry Limited, a global leader in mobile communications, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire WatchDox Ltd. to further enhance BlackBerry’s best-in-class mobile security and give enterprises unmatched control over their files even after data leaves the corporate network. WatchDox’s technology will be offered as a value-added service that complements BlackBerry’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) portfolio, and will be available with BES12, a multi-OS EMM solution. Waterloo, Ontario – Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.…

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The Board of Directors of Telenor Group (Telenor) today announces the appointment of Mr. Sigve Brekke as the company’s new Group President and Chief Executive Officer. He will succeed Mr. Jon Fredrik Baksaas by 17 August 2015. (Oslo, 12 May 2015) Sigve Brekke is the Executive Vice President and Head of Telenor Group’s Asia operations. He joined Telenor in 1999 and has held several executive positions in the company since then. “Sigve Brekke has a solid track-record as the Head of Telenor’s Asia operations and part of Group Management since August…

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Google announced Tuesday that its Android One program is making its debut in Turkey, marking the program’s first presence in Europe. Android One is Google’s initiative to get as many inexpensive internet-connected smartphones to as many hands as possible in developing countries where billions of people still don’t have access to the internet. It also doesn’t hurt in Google’s efforts to expand its sphere of influence to people that would normally never have the opportunity to connect to its internet services like Google Search, Chrome, Google Now, and its myriad…

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Historic Russian musical theater entertains new global audiences with livestreamed performances to any mobile device using the IBM hybrid cloud ARMONK, N.Y. and ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – 29 Apr 2015: Russia’s Mariinsky Theatre has selected IBM (NYSE:IBM) to build a hybrid cloudsolution that enables it to provide global theater enthusiasts with access to live streaming video performances on the web, tablets or other mobile devices. Debuting classic ballet standards such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty andThe Nutcracker, the preeminent Mariinsky Theatre has been entertaining audiences of all ages from across 150 countries with some of the world’s best opera,…

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