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Tablet Business Apps for Android, iPad: This Week’s Best
Tablets seem to be invading workplaces everywhere, biting out bigger and bigger chunks of the netbook and PC markets. The office and virtual office is no exception, and app developers are making serious strides to monetize this trend. In consequence, users can choose among a huge pool of such apps, and we’ve rounded up this ...
SAP Revenues Soar, Yet Profit Disappoints Investors
Stock prices for German business software maker SAP fell by over 6 percent yesterday, following the company’s earnings call that morning. That equals a $4.34 slide to $63.97 on the New York Stock Exchange, and is attributed to investor concerns regarding Q1, 2011 net profit that was far below analysts’ expectations. SAP reported net profit ...
Tech Patent Wars Continue: Oracle Beats Google in Court
It seems that business rivalry in the tech industry usually comes alongside multiple patent infringement claims exchanged between competing companies. Two of these are Oracle and Google. The former sued the internet company last year, claiming Android has infringed seven of Oracle’s Java patents, the language it has acquired as part of its 2010 Sun ...
HP Lands Another $2.5 Billion Contract with NASA
In light of the electronics’ giant graduate move into the cloud and software markets, Hewlett-Packard has landed yet another high-profile contract with NASA. Late last year, we’ve learned that HP has entered into a $2.5 billion, 10 year agreement with NASA to manage the bulk of the space agency’s IT infrastructure. This deal includes among ...
NASDAQ and Xignite Introduce On-Demand Big Data Extension
NASDAQ and cloud-based data distribution technology maker Xignite have introduced a new tool called Mass It’s part of NASDAQ Data-On-Demand, a historical stock trade and quote data cloud service, and is available free to Premier subscribers of Data-On-Demand (also powered by Xignite). What it does is bring big data tools to the masses, helping them ...
Citrix VOP & CTO Joins Atlantis Computing Advisory Board
Bernard Harguindeguy, chairman and CEO of Atlantis Computing , a company that providers virtual desktop environment (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions has sent out a letter announcing that Citrix’s Harry Labana has joined the company’s Advisory Board. Labana is VP and chief technology officer for Citrix desktop and application virtualization. “Harry’s perspective as both ...
yaM Labs Tweaks Cloud-based Meeting Collaboration Tool
yaM Labs and its cloud-based yaM meeting collaboration tool are relatively new players in the online collaboration industry, but the company is already stirring some buzz with its product currently in beta. The company has announced a major update for yaM, which is initially web-based. The app is now simplified in terms of ease of ...
Why Do Social Networks Have to Die?
Frindster, launched back in 2003, was the first major social network the world has seen. Now, 8 year later, the once popular site is closing down and completely overhauling its agenda. The company announced this week that users have until May 31 to export the data they have stored on the site – including pictures, ...
Encoding.com Secures $2M for Cloud-based Solution
Encoding.com is a San Francisco-based start-up that offers video encoding services in the cloud. The company has reportedly seen a 500 percent growth in monthly recurring revenues in 2010, and as the online video is gaining more and more momentum, so does Encoding. The company announced it has raised $2 million in fresh capital from ...
HP Makes the Most out Of 3PAR Acquisition
Today Hewlett-Packard announced that New York-based full-service securities firm Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., has chosen replace its aging IT infrastructure and deploy HP 3PAR Utility Storage. The firm, which reportedly manages more than $2 billion in customer assets, aims to improve customer responsiveness timing-wise, as well as to lower costs. “Due to its aging ...
