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The Amazon Experience is Expanding with New Ad Network
Amazon is a very big marketplace in several sectors: retail, e-publishing, music, daily deals and digital content to name a few. Now the web giant is looking to enter yet another business, launching a brand new ad network. In partnership with San Francisco-based ad company Triggit, Amazon will take a big-data approach to monetize ads ...
Personal Cloud Boost Driven by Mobile, Video and Beyond
The personal cloud industry is seeing a lot of updates as countless companies – from startups to some of the biggest players in tech – try to take a shot at monetizing this exploding market. As competition intensifies, increasingly innovative offerings surface and grow their market share – just like some of the more recent ...
Tablet Summer Showdown Is a Circus for Mobile OS
The tablet device market is heating up as more and more companies are looking to take a bite out of the iPad’s overwhelming share of the market. Hewlett-Packard is one of them, and we’ve learned it may be prepping to launch yet another tablet after launch of the 9.7-inch webOS-powered TouchPad. A story in the ...
Microsoft Stirs Rumors around Windows 8, Pushes WP7 Forward
Microsoft has been working a lot around its top ventures lately, and today the latest batch of Windows 8 rumors crossed the wire. It was forecasted that the software maker will launch Windows 8 sometime in the second or third quarter of 2012, but there may be a different time-table we can expect. ZDNet’s Mary ...
Apple Getting Consumer Savvy with iPhone 5, 4S Pricing and Release Dates?
Based on some recent reports, Apple will begin making the next version of the iPhone in August. These support some previous rumors, though they don’t offer much more in details. The note, written by Morgan analyst Katy Huberty, says the device will indeed begin production in that time frame and will “ramp aggressively” into Q4. ...
Travel, Mobile Office Lead Business Tablet Apps for iPad, Android
The iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace are flooded with a constant stream of apps from developers, and as the industry evolves, this trend is becoming more and more evident by the day. It’s also expanding into new territories with the introduction of new devices, and the tablet-abundant office is one of them. We’ve ...
Open-Source, Virtualization Lead Recent Cloud Trends
The past week in the cloud featured updates encompassing several of the hottest trends cooking in IT right now, and recent developments in open-source cloud kicks off our recap. OpenStack, the Rackspace cloud OS platform that managed to gain itself over 50 partners to date, welcomed the latest member who joined the initiative. Web host ...
HP Expanding Storage Business from Tape and Global Angles
Hewlett-Packard, currently one of the largest player in the storage industry, is constantly venturing into ways to further strengthen its growth in this field. The most recent update is an EOM agreement with Quantum, a maker of tape storage solutions. HP will now be manufacturing its tape library based on Quantum’s security-conscious Scalar i6000 product. ...
Nokia Employees Leak New Windows Phone 7 Handset
Talk of a Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia device have been going on for a while, ever since the phone maker’s $2 billion agreement with Microsoft was announced, and it would appear that now the first handset is finally here. Codenamed Sea Ray, the N9-based device was previewed to employees by CEO Stephen Elop. Elop asked ...
Cybersecurity Attack not a Threat but Statistical Certainty
In today’s uncertain world, there’s no telling when you’ll get hacked, or how bad of a breach it will be. Whether you’re a gamer on Sony’s PlayStation Network, a mobile user, a bank or a cloud service provider, security is a top priority right now. And people are finally starting to realize it. On behalf ...
