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ShoutEm Launches No-Coding App Builder into Beta
Mobile company ShoutEm was launched back in ‘08 as a white label mobile social networking service which enabled customers to develop custom mobile communities. Growing beyond the 20,000 community mark, ShoutEm has announced it has “evolved”, and launched a new app builder into beta. The service reportedly enables app development without the need for coding ...
HTC Pushes Forward with Invests in Mobile Content Delivery, Gaming
HTC announced two mobile investments as a part of a push to further anchor its turf in the mobile market. The first is the acquisition of multimedia delivery platform Saffron Digital for $48.6 million, and plans to buy a $40 stake of cloud gaming company OnLive. “Citing an HTC spokeswoman, the newspaper [WSJ] said that ...
Android Flexes its Muscles, Driving Industry Hope in 2011
Android is driving development and growth for every aspect of the mobile industry. The IDC reports some statistics about its 2010 growth, backed by exploding AT&T interest in the platform, and a ground-breaking new duel-screen device by Sprint introduced later today. “The biggest waves, though, were created by Google’s Android as vendors Samsung and HTC ...
Can Yahoo Regain its Portal Effect with Personalized Mobile?
Yahoo is working on an initiative designed to improve its mobile presence, and help applications personalize user content based on recorded activity and statistics. Not much was disclosed about Yahoo!’s attempt to recapture a part of its formerly dominant share of the market, but it may be unveiled at the mobile World Congress in event ...
VMware Introduces VMware Zimbra 7 Amidst Executive Shake-up
Virtualization giant VMware announced VMware Zimbra 7, the latest version of its cloud email and collaboration platform. This announcement comes amidst some executive turbulence the company is going through regarding its President and other executives, but Zimbra’s shiny new features are helping to soften the blow. The platform is available starting today, and comes with ...
Last.fm Will Make Mobile Users Pay
After continuously and gradually losing ground and (millions of dollars) to competitors, the once completely free Last.fm’s music streaming apps will now become paid ones (unless your a WP7 user). Last.fm claims it’s the world’s largest free music catalog, and as of next Tuesday, users who will want to stream music via the service to ...
Violin Memory Gets Stuffed with Cash, Juniper Networks Invests in $35M Round
Cloud scaling company Violin Memory announced it has raised $35 in Series B funding from multiple investors, including new investor Juniper Networks and Toshiba America Electronic Components. A single Violin 3140 is said to support 40TB worth of Flash storage and 10K Flash devices. “Violin Memory is a true performance leader in high-end silicon storage,” said ...
Windows Phone 7 Mobile Apps Get Love Too
Digital marketplaces are cropping up all over the place, especially in the mobile sector. An infographic by WP AppHab details the status of Windows Phone 7 from the app angle; all 8000+ of them. Paid apps have the largest share of the total figure at 725, while only 28% of all WP7 apps are free ...
Clouds Develop Over Open Territory: This Week’s Trends
SiliconANGLE is there at the Strata Conference and conducting interviews with all the biggest names attending, but the cloud has been active from other angels as well. The open cloud takes a very big chunk of our list, with Rackspace’s announcement of their latest OpenStack code release, Bexar, kicking things off. Bexar brings IPv6, Hyper-V, ...
Strata Conference Recap: Day 3 Keynotes
The O’Reilly Strata Conference has given us insight into the world of big data, how it’s being used and what the future holds for this specific aspect of cloud management. We’ve been covering the conference extensively, highlighting keynotes and panels, as well as holding a number of interviews at our CUBE. Yesterday featured several speakers ...
