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Online Video Sees Tremendous Growth, Spurs some Major Updates
New data from research firm Nielsen reveals U.S users spent 45% more time watching online video compared to 2010, and streamed 28% more video. The number of unique video viewers only increased by 3.1% compared to Jan 2010, but a drastic spike in activity means something big has happened during the past year – the ...
iPad 2: The Apps!
The iPad 2 has arrived. The duel-core tablet has some very powerful specs geared to compete with the Motorola Xoom, but we’ve also learned a bit about the apps it will feature. Not much info is available, but what we do know is that the IOS 3.4-running iPad 2 will ship with new iTunes Home ...
Cisco Acquires Pari Networks, Developing Strategy at Enterprise Connect 2011
Cisco’s core switch business may be declining, but the company has been working hard to cover as many areas in its offerings portfolio as possible. These currently range from teleconferencing to blade servers, and the latest development to Cisco’s strategy was announced today – the acquisition of Pari Networks. Pari Networks is a provider of ...
Facebook Juggles Privacy, Regulators and Ads as its Platform Grows in Influence
As Facebook fleshes out its business model around a social market and the mobile space, the network faces scrutiny for how it manages private data, having to justify the updates it pushes through. This week’s already been particularly busy for Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has notified the Congress it will carry ...
Google Acquires Security Analytics Software Developer Zynamics
Google’s made a sly acquisition today, taking in analytics firm Zynamics. According to a brief blog post, the acquired security analytics software developer Zynamics is headed to one of the cloud’s most prominent data crunchers. Zynamics develops offensive and defensive security reverse engineering tools. The company’s offerings, which include BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd and PDF ...
Privacy: AT&T and Facebook, All Over Again
Today we’ve seen a couple of new – and major – privacy related updates. The first one comes from WSJ, who reports the Supreme Court refused to extend personal-privacy rights to corporations in case 09-1279, Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T. Chief Justice John Roberts stated it’s nothing personal. “The case concerned AT&T’s effort to block public disclosure ...
GigaSpaces Partners up with Excelian, heads to Finance and Gaming
Virtualized application platforms maker GigaSpaces announced a partnership with London-based Excelian, a technology consulting company with 250 staffers. The partnership is meant to extend GigaSpaces’ reach to finance services and gaming companies. “We chose to work with GigaSpaces because it is battle proven in the industries in which we work,” says Adam Vile, PhD, Senior ...
Personal Cloud Management Shines at DEMO 2011, Pushes Consumer Trends
The Demo Spring 2011 conference introduced us quite a bit of interesting new technologies (including educational mindreading headsets), but personal cloud management was a segment which got a particularly large amount of attention. The trend signifies ongoing industry development around the personal cloud, which is taking a path similar to enterprise cloud structures, as far ...
McAfee Security Buy Ushers Intel Into New Era
Intel announced it has completed the acquisition of security giant McAfee; a $7.68 billion all cash deal announced in last August. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel, McAfee will continue to develop and sell security offerings under its brand. McAfee will report to Intel’s Software and Services Group, which is led by Intel senior VP and ...
Clearspring Turns the Spotlight on Oscar’s Big Data
Millions of viewers all over the world tuned in to catch the Oscars last night, a bar-setting event that determines the direction of the entertainment sector for the following year. This year’s ceremony represented the entertainment sector’s leap beyond TV alone, and featured several indicators of this ongoing transition. These indicators included the Oscar Backstage ...
