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Topify Shuts Itself Down because Twitter Doesn’t Care about the Little Guys
Arik Fraimovich, one of the developers behind Twitter tool Topify, announced in a blog post he will be shutting down the free service on August 5. Topify enabled users to manage their Twitter accounts from their inboxes, rather than having to receive the rather clunky default notification emails. The service leveraged the X-Twitter* headers that ...
IPO Season Gets Another Boost with Palo Alto Networks’ New Executive
Palo Alto Networks, a company that develops a firewall offering that filters web traffic based on the type of application generating it, announced its latest hire as it’s starting to prep for an initial public offering. Mark McLaughlin, who served in various positions at VeriSign throughout the past decade, most recently as the CEO of ...
AppleTV Gains Momentum, Google TV Lags Behind
Online video is taking up more and more bandwidth, as both demand and quality rise exponentially and companies are quick to catch up with this growing market. Some have managed to do so, while others are still looking to gain a name for themselves in this arena – two examples of the latter ones are ...
VCE Joins CLOUD2 Commission to Standardize Govt. Clouds
The the Virtual Computing Environment Company, a joint venture by Cisco, EMC and VMware announced the release of TechAmerica Federal CLOUD2 Commission report in the National Press Club. The TechAmerica CLOUD2 Commission is a group of over 70 industry veterans from both the private and public sectors that aim to accelerate cloud adoption in the ...
Nintendo Sales Drop as Competition Overshadows Main Offering
The gaming industry is being shaken by a drastic shift in user demand, and Nintendo along with B&M game stores has taken a hit. Sales of the Nintendo 3DS hand-held console, which comes with a no-glasses 3D gimmick, have dropped significantly in spite of strong early demand. The Japanese firm sold only 710,000 3DS in Q2 ...
BlueCross Adds Encryption After File Theft Incident
The explanation behind the long string of hacks we’ve seen lately that stretches back all the way to last year may show that hackers are getting smarter, but some cases can also be attributed to organizations’ failure to protect themselves. One clear example is that of Sony, which was hacked multiple times and let customer ...
HTC and Samsung Losing Momentum, Face Apple on All Fronts
HTC and Samsung reported results for the second quarter today. Both the companies’ figures suggested that they’re starting to see a decline in their almost supernatural growth rates from the past few quarters, something that can be attributed mainly to their early adoption of Android. Starting with HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer reported a net profit of ...
This Week in the Cloud: From OpenStack to the New OS in Town
There have been several interesting update this week from the cloud computing industry, and open-source innovation was one of the biggest highlights in the last few days. HP, Gluster and Dell all had an OpenStack announcement, representing a milestone for the companies involved. Starting with Gluster, the open-source storage solutions provider unveiled Gluster Connector, its ...
Hewlett-Packard vs. Dell in the Open Cloud
A couple days after Dell launched an infrastructure offering based on OpenStack, an open cloud OS initiative started by Rackspace and NASA, Hewlett-Packard announced it too has joined the community. The electronics giant, hoping to further expand beyond hardware into the cloud and other areas, is following many of its competitors cue, joining a total of ...
AntiSec Calls Users to Close their PayPal Accounts
AntiSec, the hacker movement that emerged out of the now disbanded Lulz Security and bolstered by Anonymous, is too following tradition by going after PayPal for withholding funds from WikiLeaks. However this time they took an uncharacteristic course of action–a “DBoS” or Distributed Boycott of Service attack. Rather than breaching the company’s site, AntiSec posted an open ...
