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Windows 7 Officially More Popular than XP
Microsoft’s Windows XP has been the most popular OS in the world for over 10 years, even long after the next two versions of the operating system release. Vista was hardly a replacement to the far more stable XP when it launched, bit Windows 7’s smaller size, ease of use and a simplified install seem ...
IBM Joins EcoGrid, the EU’s Socially Green Project
IBM and the European Commission released a joint announcement saying that Big Blue is teaming up with an EU-backed consortium to kick off EcoGrid EU, a part-green, part-social experiment that’s meant to increase public awareness of renewable energy using connected devices. The EcoGrid EU will be piloted on the Danish island of Bornholm with 1/10 of ...
Fusion-io Preps for Second Earnings Call After Successful IPO
Flash storage acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io is getting ready for its first earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. This is the second time the company will report its earnings since going public back in June, so a lot of1 shareholders and analysts will be monitoring how Fusion-io has managed in the ...
Google Not Planning to Buy Akamai, Debunks Early Rumors
Yesterday Business Insider reported that internet search giant Google may be planning to acquire Akamai, a web acceleration solutions maker. This resulted in a 10 percent rise in the latter’s shares, which have been going downhill in the past year due to a report by the company which said it’s struggling to keep up with ...
IBM Expands SmartCloud Portfolio to Partners, SMBs
IBM has been around for more than a century, and is a traditional player in the market, to say the least. However the company is always making strides to adapt to market trends in order to stay competitive, and in less than a century it moved from manufacturing tabulating equipment to offering enterprise cloud services. ...
Does Dell’s CEO have a “Steve Jobs Plan” for the Company’s Future? DellWorld 2011
Every major tech corporation has its own conference, and electronics giant Dell is no exception. Dell World is kicking off this week, and this year will be the last conference the company will be holding in Austin, Texas, also the location of its headquarters. Michael Dell blames it on the lack of hotel rooms in ...
HP Layoff Rumors Grow as webOS Takes a Back Seat
Electronics giant Hewlett-Packard is now being led by the third CEO in two years, and the changes that analysts and company insiders predicted are now starting to realize, according to early reports. HP reportedly sent out an email to the 500 staffers in its San Diego unit, presumably the group that was working on webOS, ...
HortonWorks Powers Microsoft’s Hadoop Distro
Microsoft took a big dive into big data analytics today, alongside the announcement of SQL Server 2012. Thanks to a partnership with HortonWorks, a Hadoop service provider that was spun off from Yahoo!, the software giant will integrate the open-source data platform into Windows Server and Windows Azure. Microsoft revealed the team-up at the PASS ...
Cisco Grows and Loses in the WLAN Market
Networking giant Cisco is still the dominant player in the networking industry, despite a substantial decline throughout the past few quarters. This was enough to get CEO John Chambers to rethink his strategy and start a recovery process, and that may already be bearing its first fruits for Cisco. An IDC report picked up by ...
Zenprise Gets $30M to Extend Cloud Product Portfolio
Zenprise, a company that offers a mobile management platform for enterprises, announced a $30 million funding round led by the Silicon Valley-based Greylock Partners. Existing investors Rembrandt Venture Partners, Ignition Partners and Shasta Ventures are participating in the financing. “This year has been one of tremendous growth for Zenprise, driven by companies seeking to balance Bring-Your-Own-Device ...
