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Hewlett-Packard Splitting up after Earnings Call Shocker
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard reported fairly flat Q3 results, and took the opportunity to make some major announcements regarding the company’s outlook and brand. HP reported revenue of $32.1 billion, up from $30.7 billion a year ago but still well bellow Wall Street’s expectation of $34 billion. It was on par with the company’s own prediction ...
Dell’s Sales Slump a Downer for U.S Stocks
U.S stocks took a dive after hardware giant Dell reported slow growth in Q2, and cut its forecast for the next quarter. Dell’s net income rose by 63 percent compared to the same period last year, but revenue only rose by a mere one percent due to weakening PC demand. The company also scaled back ...
Citrix Invests in 2 More Startups for Accelerator Program
Virtualization firm Citrix has recently invested in two up and coming startups as a part of its seed funding program, the Citrix Startup Accelerator. The two companies are Nukona, the maker of an app management platform, and GridCentric, a company that makes a VDI optimization solution Citrix has expressed interest in. Starting off with Nukona, ...
VMware Strengthens Offerings with Growing Partner Base
VMware, EMC’s virtualization subsidiary, is taking several approaches to becoming even more established, as well as providing newer offerings that are more attractive to customers, one of them being the expansion of its partner base and 3rd party support for its products. Today data security firm IdentityLogix announced the SpyLogix for VMware module for its security intelligence ...
Nintendo Seeing Positive 3DS Sales after Slow Year
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. This is the highest number of units shipped since the last week of ...
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 including Washington and Atlanta, which is meant to offer more flexibility than the ...
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 the organization recently released. The figures are all based on a poll conducted ...
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 Block Store, Virtual Private Cloud, Identity and Access Management, and CloudWatch. That number ...
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 Jerry Chen. enStratus Networks, a developer of cloud management platforms, also said it ...
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 filed with the US District Court in Maryland, and claims that Cisco technology ...
