Join Embarcadero for Free Webinar on InterBase, the High Performance Zero Admin Embedded & Workgroup DatabaseSAN FRANCISCO – January 26, 2012 – Developers looking for a low cost, high performance workgroup or embedded database can learn about the InterBase XE in a free one-hour webinar from Embarcadero Technologies on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. (...) [WebWire Mobile communications]  Join Embarcadero for Free Webinar on InterBase, the High Performance Zero Admin Embedded & Workgroup DatabaseSAN FRANCISCO – January 26, 2012 – Developers looking for a low cost, high performance workgroup or embedded database can learn about the InterBase XE in a free one-hour webinar from Embarcadero Technologies on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. (...) [WebWire Computer software]  SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this yearSAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka said in an interview (...) [ComputerWorld]  Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7Microsoft has announced a March 7 online event for the launch of SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database product. [ComputerWorld]  The Oracle flaw: Clarifications and more informationIn the wake of InfoWorld's exclusive story on a flaw in Oracle's flagship database product, Oracle weighs in and new developments emerge [ComputerWorld]  RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise databaseOnline database repository provider RainStor unveiled what it is calling the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop. [ComputerWorld]  Zappos breach goes beyond credit cards: Consumers face identity theft if hackers correlate other penetrated databasesAn expert comments on the Zappos web site breach by hackers. He said that information about a customer can be used to 'de-anonymize' other databases on other Web sites, further invading customer privacy. [Science daily]  Zappos database hit by cyberattackOnline shoe retailer says personal information may have been hacked and urges customers to change passwords
Hackers have struck Zappos, the online shoe retailer, putting at risk the sensitive information from its database of 24 million customers.
Credit card information had not been stolen, (...) [The Guardian]  Google admits hacking Mocality dataWeb giant says it is 'mortified' to learn that people working for it used Mocality's data in attempt to sell competing product
Google has confessed that a number of people working for it "improperly" accessed the customer database of a rival company in Kenya to boost its own business.
The US (...) [The Guardian]  Oracle updates TimeTen in-memory database, aims at SAP HANAOracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP's HANA platform. [ComputerWorld]  French antitrust regulator rejects HP's demand that Oracle continue Itanium supportFrance's antitrust regulator has declined Hewlett Packard's request for an injunction ordering Oracle to continue supporting its database on HP's Itanium server platform. HP's request that Oracle be ordered to align pricing for its database on Itanium servers with that of (...) [Network World]  Google's Acquisition Of IBM Patents May Aid its Oracle CaseAccording to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web site, Google acquired 188 patents and another 29 patents pending from IBM in a deal recorded December 30.[..]The newest batch of patents from IBM have only a handful of mobile telephony applications. Instead, they are rich in database (...) [OSNews]  Centralizing Your Business DataConsolidating information in a centralized database helps a business to maintain interoperability between present and future applications. It reduces information management costs for duplication and provides access to more complete information and enhancing overall efficiency of the (...) [Computer user]  Centralizing Your Business DataConsolidating information in a centralized database helps a business to maintain interoperability between present and future applications. It reduces information management costs for duplication and provides access to more complete information and enhancing overall efficiency of the (...) [Computer user]  Company sues ex-employee for his followersPhoneDog sues Noah Kravitz for $340,000, saying his 17,000 followers on Twitter constitutes a customer database
A Twitter user is being sued for £217,000 by his former employer for taking his online followers with him when he switched jobs. Noah Kravitz, a writer from Oakland, California, (...) [The Guardian] 
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