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HP Expands on Consumer and Enterprise Hardware Fronts: Take a New Business Approach?
We’ve seen a fair share of updates and news coming from Hewlett-Packard’s direction in the last 36 hours, starting with their market strength. According to IDC’s numbers for Q4 2010, HP overthrown NetApp as the 3 largest player in the worldwide external disk storage systems market. HP’s market share was 11.6 percent with $704 million ...
Millennial Media Updates Android SDK, Sets Mobile Ad Standards with MMA
Top mobile advertising network Millennial Media had a couple of big announcements today, starting with the launch of the new Android 4.1 SDK. In light of Android’s rapid expansion, this latest release brings some major updates to developers. These are aimed to further strengthen marketers’ ability to maximize the highest CPMs-yielding campaigns Millennial offers; particularly ...
Impulse Point (and Dell) Move Northern Arizona University into the Cloud
Universities are prime places for cloud services to do a bit of testing all their own. The latest scholarly team up is between Dell and Northern Arizona University, which have successfully deployed its SafeConnect NAC, thus replacing an old Cisco Clean Access NAC installation (the Cisco NAC Applicance’s former name). It’s another lose for Cisco, ...
Android Still Most Logical Choice after Latest Malware Meltdown
After the 50 applications in the Android Market were discovered to be infected with the DroidDream malware, the company has remotely wiped malicious applications from users’ devices. Only phones running Android versions below 2.2.2 are vulnerable, and in addition to the wiping (accompanied by two e-mails from android-market-support@google.com), Google is also forcing an update called ...
Business Tablet Apps Take You to the Cloud and Beyond: This Week’s Best
Tablets are gaining more and more traction in the personal, as well as professional space. With the recent launch of the Motorola Xoom in stores and the unveiling of the iPad 2, it becomes evident that tablets are about to be big, and business apps are not left behind. So, we’ve scooped up 5 of ...
Urban Mapping finds Retail Locations with your Subway Ticket
Location-based services donned a front-row seat in the convergence of digital and real-life experiences, and following LivingSocial and the MapQuest Android app are the services aiming to capitalize on your location, multiplied by as many users to as many datasets as possible. Geospatial big data, online mapping and data visualization service provider Urban Mapping announced ...
This Week in the Cloud: Juniper, Cisco & IBM
Throughout the past week we’ve seen some major announcements from the biggest players in the cloud space, and Juniper and Cisco were at the center of attention once more. Juniper Networks yesterday launched the scalability-focused Converged Supercore offerings suit, an integrated end-to-end optical packet transport solution. Both the optical layer and packet layer run on Juniper’s ...
The High Price of IPO Talk: Twitter Takes On the Bubble
Some rumors and reports that surfaced lately suggest Twitter is heading for a public offering in the near future, but Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters the company doesn’t plan to go public anytime soon. “We have so many other things before we even think about that,” Biz Stone told Reuters at a business forum ...
Microsoft and Employees Beware, the Lawyers are Coming to Get You
Facebook has a history of snatching its competitors’ employees, but while Google paid an engineer $6 million so that she won’t defect to the social network, Microsoft has taken its efforts to an entirely different level – court. All Things D reports that after Facebook hired ex-Microsoft global ad sales head Carolyn Everson, Microsoft is ...
What the iPad 2 Means for Gaming, and the Specs You Need to Know
The iPad 2 was introduced by Apple yesterday, and we’ve all gotten a little taste of the next gen tablet. The iPad 2 was dubbed a game changer by some and a firm strategy by others, but as it turns outs, it’s also a pretty good game machine. Some of the most buzzed-about apps loaded ...
