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Cisco is dropping it se-mail service, only a little over a year after it launched the offering in Nov. 2009. Cisco announced in a blog post it’s shutting off Cisco Mail since the company’s customers “have come to view their email as …
Cisco’s New Right Hand Man, Sights Set on Significant Milestones
Cisco has been a very active company lately, most notably these past 12 hours. Several updates were announced and uncovered, starting with a new no. 2 executive, as revealed by WSJ. While other companies are eliminating the chief operating officer title, Cisco …
Updated Jolicloud OS Brings Cloud Power to your Antique Computer
Today Jolicloud, a Chromium-based Operating System designed to put old or relatively weak computers back to work using the cloud, released version 1.1.1. The OS works by moving tasks typically processed locally to the cloud, and has now extended its support include …
Mobile Payments Get Competitive with Paydiant, Isis and Google (yet Again)
Paydiant, a Boston-based mobile payments stealth start-up, announced it has raised $7.6 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners, and will be used to expand product development, sales and …
VMware Looks to Mobile iOS, Japan for Cloud Future
VMware has a couple noteworthy developments today, starting with the possibility we may see an iOS offering in the near future. The company recently unveiled a mobile virtualization platform for Android aimed to create separate environments for employees’ personal and work related …
WHERE Launches Perfect Places, Forges Bump Partnership
Location-based mobile company WHERE announced the new Perfect Places feature for its mobile apps, which seems to replicate the concept of social networking to a local, real-life extent. The feature recommends users local places they would be interested in visiting by matching …
Gilt Groupe Raises a Fashionable $80-100M Amidst Rumors of Waif Thin Business Model
Flash-sale company Gilt Groupe is raising $80-$100 million from private-market investors in a deal which may increase the company’s valuation to as much as $1 billion. The company’s revenue is expected to double this fiscal year to around $500 million, but there …
Online Travel Services Get Big Data Facelifts, Starting with Zagat
Online travel and review sites are getting more and more social and data-driven, and Zagat is no exception. The restaurant review site is re-launching, now offering users more free content with a social overhaul. The new social tools include interactive maps, which …
Android’s Got Charisma, Still Building Momentum
The upcoming Honeycomb-powered Motorola Xoom stirred quite a bit of buzz, being the first device powered by Google’s tablet-dedicated OS, but all that publicity is causing a bit of back-lash this morning, and it’s Adobe’s fault. According to the fine print on …
The Internet Kill Switch Returns, This Time as a Target
The Internet Kill Switch is back, and in more ways than one. WSJ reports the first development, which comes from 3 U.S senators. Joe Lieberman (I, Conn.), Susan Collins (R, Maine.) and Tom Calpers (D, Del.) today introduced the “Cybersecurity and Internet …