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Larry Ellison's distractions

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a lot more on his mind these days than running the giant hardware and software company -- a fact made evident by his recent last-minute decision not to deliver a highly anticipated speech at Oracle's most important user conference. Here's a look at the many, mostly pleasant distractions in the billionaire's life.

Larry Ellison's distractions
10 essential BlackBerry apps for travel

Keep all your travel details readily accessible with WorldMate Live, an itinerary manager packed with useful features for frequent travelers. All you have to do is forward your airplane, hotel or car rental confirmation e-mails to WorldMate; the service parses out the relevant details and makes it all easily available.

10 essential BlackBerry apps for travel

10 tips for modernising legacy apps for the cloud

Cloud-native capabilities are vital for making the most of the cloud. Here’s how to breathe new cloud life into your legacy apps.
Identity, trust, and their role in modern applications

Identity, trust, and trust sharing are indispensable to our belief in the validity of the services we interact with on the internet.
Snowflake switches gears, from data warehouse to application cloud

With its new Native Application Framework, Snowflake offers developers the ability to build and run apps on a common cloud-based data platform and leverage its ...
AWS adds ML-powered analysis for serverless apps

Amazon DevOps Guru for Serverless uses machine learning to improve the operational availability and performance of AWS Lambda applications.
How SLOs and error budgets improve app reliability

These practical tools help devops teams balance operational issues and the pursuit of perfection.
Java state API would speed app start-up

OpenJDK proposal would eliminate the long start-up times of Java applications by saving the state of the Java runtime and using it to start instances ...

AWS - Providing a platform for ISV innovation

As chief advocates of the independent software vendor, Amazon Web Services head of channels and alliances, Stefan Jansen, outlines to how the vendor is providing ...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott on why Concur is worth $8.3 billion

Buying Concur 'is the best business case I've ever put in front of the board,' McDermott says
How a cyber cop patrols the underworld of e-commerce

Primary goal is to review, monitor, investigate and help mitigate the risk associated with e-commerce

IoT analytics brings new levels of innovation to new product development

Development teams are translating streams of real time machine data into actionable information to improve the product development process
When it comes to mobile apps, IT is ‘slow, poor and weak'

Are your users getting the mobile support they need from your IT team or are they bringing their own apps?
What does the future hold for Microsoft Dynamics?

Microsoft Dynamics software is moving to be a service you can build into the tools you need to make your businesses processes work better.
Videoconferencing do's and don'ts (with video!)

Videoconferencing is gaining in popularity as companies seek to save time and money and boost collaboration. Whether you're an on-site presenter or distant participant, here's ...
Is security really stuck in the Dark Ages?

"Every alert that pops up is like a bump in the night"
10 Apple Watch dating apps to supercharge your love life

It won't be long before we're all invited to a couple's wedding who met via the Apple Watch