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Japanese gaming company Nintendo managed to ship a sizable number of its 3DS three-dimensional mobile gaming consoles last week despite disappointing results throughout the past few quarters. Research firm Enterbrain said that the company sold 214,821 3DS units in Japan last week. …
Pay for Parking with Your Smartphone in New York City
Over the next few months, New York City will place “smart meters” in 300 locations as a part of an experiment to test a pay-by-phone parking system. The one-year pilot program will feature tech that is already used in several other cities …
Linux: After 20 Years, Spurs Cloud/Social Media Innovation
Open-source is becoming a huge trend in the cloud and beyond, just as one of the original proponents of open-source turns 20. Linux has grown immensely since it was first conceived two decades ago, an essential era that was depicted in an infographic …
Amazon Bats Eyes at Gov’t Sector with New Cloud Services
Today Amazon made an announcement that placed it two steps of the competition: it unveiled GovCloud, what is essentially an ultra secure version of six Amazon Web Services designed for the use of government agencies: Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, Elastic …
VMware Announces Expanded Cloud Foundry Support
Virtualization giant VMware announced that it has expanded support for Cloud Foundry, its open-source PaaS offering. As a part of a new partnership with Dell, the latter’s services business will integrate the beta platform-as-a-service solution with Ubuntu Linux, according to VMware VP …
Lawsuit Implicates Cisco in Chinese Human Rights Violations, Censorship
Networking giant Cisco has been sued by Daniel Ward of law firm Ward & Ward on the behalf of Du Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi, Liu Xianbin, and ten other Chinese political prisoners who requested to remain anonymous for fear of persecution. The lawsuit was …
Pageonce Scores 5M Users Amidst Mobile Finance Competition
Pageonce, the operator of Pageonce Money & Bills, a mobile service that lets users manage their bank accounts from a number of mobile platforms, has reached a major milestone, with a reported five million registered users. The company says that adds up …
Joyent Opens up SmartOS in the Cloud
Cloud software developer Joyent announced that its SmartOS platform, which was once only a component of its SmartDataCenter and public cloud offerings, is now available under an open-source license. Joyent CTO Jason Hoffmann refered to the server platform as the ““only modern OS” …
Nutanix Debuts Rounded-Out VMware Server
Startup Nutanix announced its first product, a virtualized server it named Complete Cluster. The 2U or 3.5 inch high VMware-based box comes equipped with four x86 nodes, each containing eight 8 Intel Xeon processors that add up to a combined 48 cores and …
Cisco Pulls the Plug on Green Program, More Layoffs
Cisco has shut down its Smart Connected Buildings program, according to a blog post by Laura Ipsen, Cisco’s SVP of Global Policy and Government Affairs. The program was Cisco’s household energy management offering, and was mostly based on technology developed by Richards-Zeta …