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Mobile Games Continue to Drive Social Innovation, and Resources
Social gaming has been a huge tactical interest for second and third tier social networks in the past 3-5 years including Friendster, hi5, MySpace and Facebook, and now myYearbook joined the club in the mobile arena. The social network freshly acquired 5 popular Android games –Toss It, Tic Tac Toe, SpringDroid, Minesweeper and Line of ...
Can Android Hold its Lead for Next 5 Years?
The open-source Android OS is leading the charge in the mobile market, with a top share of 29% in January 2011. The mobile market landscape is expected to drastically change by 2015 however, and Android will become an even more prominent presence. IDC forecasts Android will capture 39.5 percent of the global market this year, ...
Online Media’s Second Heat Wave: Video and Radio Gain Momentum
Online video as well as radio are transforming into bigger and bigger, constantly-evolving industries, which accelerate along with the rest of the tech industry. Naturally, online video has attracted a great deal of marketers, and Adap.tv is one start-up making big gains by monetizing this area. It does so by offering a platform where publishers ...
Gluster Powers Sweden’s First IaaS Platform
Open source storage platform company Gluster announced that Swedish hosting solutions provider City Network Hosting is using its storage solution to power its City Cloud offering – Sweden’s first IaaS platform. The offering launched after more than 15 months in beta, and has an existing customer base of over 500 companies. “As City Cloud continues ...
Google Bringing Ultra Fast Broadband to Kansas City. Town Renaming Next?
In an effort to encourage existing internet service providers to offer higher speeds, Google chose Kansas City, Kansas as the first city where it will deploy an “ultra” high-speed broadband network. This project doesn’t mean Google is ready to jump into the internet service providers market and take on AT&T Verizon and others (yet), but ...
Personal Cloud Scales the Web: Evernote Gets More Social, Efficient
Note-taking cloud service Evernote has revamped its website – not the main (and actually the last) element pushing its ever-growing userbase. Either way, the updated site provides a glimpse into what we can expect from the Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android Evernote apps in the near future, including some pretty neat features. Among these tweaks ...
Cloud.com Powers KT ucloud: 60% Cheaper than AWS
Open source cloud software Cloud.com is providing its services to Korea’s largest landline operator and mobile service provider, which is using its open source multi-tenant IaaS platform, CloudStack, to develop the KT ucloud public cloud IaaS offering currently in beta. Intel, Citrix and others are also participating in the process. KT will provide services with ...
GigaSpaces Scores Another Partnership – this Time with SuperDerivatives
Today virtualized application platforms vendor GigaSpaces announced it has landed another partnership, this time with financial company SuperDerivatives. SD is using GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform to enhance the performance of some of its risk management solutions. GigaSpaces is still a relative newcomer to the cloud services industry, and partnerships are very important element for the company’s ...
The Web’s Global Map Looks Like This: Today & Tomorrow
What is the worldwide web? We know it spans the globe, and we know what we can do with it. But from a network perspective, what does it look like on a global scale? Communications research firm TeleGeography released its Global Internet Map for 2011, which provides some insight to the internet activity this year ...
Amazon Cloud Drive Takes on Personal Cloud Hosting, Music Industries
Amazon music has always been a significant alternative in the iTunes culture market. And the personal cloud, notably cloud file hosting space, has been really picking up in light of Box.net’s recent $48 million funding round and other developments we’ve seen lately. Amazon evidently realized the enormous momentum this industry has gained, which is one ...
