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MySpace Losing Foothold: Potential Layoffs in Near Future
MySpace became steadily less significant with Twitter and Facebook’s constant expansion and social-network trend setting. The website struck a major ad deal with Google recently, but that’s not enough to stabilize its descent. That’s why the possibility of layoffs concerning up to 50% of the 1,100 has been raised by multiple sources. “While the decision ...
Amazon Kindle: 2010 Success, 2011 Expectations
Amazon’s ever-popular Kindle device and apps are the main factors which brought e-reading and premium digital content to the mainstream, and impacted the publishing industry as a whole. At this point, there’s really no going back. The reason behind its popularity is the fact the Kindle is available to sync a single account across all ...
Lighthouse Security: Quick Connect Tech for IAM Services
SaaS security company Lighthouse Security has enhanced the federated identity and access management within its Lighthouse Gateway cloud-based service. This enhancement, arriving in the form of its new Quick Connect technology is reportedly able to simplify federated user provisioning and single sign on for popular SaaS applications. “Businesses can now share user credentials with partners ...
HTC CES Expectations, Rising Handset Issues
According to PCMag, HTC’s PR agency Waggener Edstrom had reportedly sent out buzzworthy packages indicating the introduction of a new 4G, Android 2.2 Smartphone at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. The package contained a space about the size of a Smartphone, an image of an Android calling from Las Vegas, a ‘Froyo Lover’ Sticker, a ...
What Social Sharing was All About in 2010
One of the largest sharing network on the web, Clearspring, has revealed its top 10 shares for 2010. These kick off with the oil-covered Nahanni Johnstone and her daughter with 107K shares, Italian soccer player Daniele De Rossi’s fall with 110K, and the diaper-wearing Samba dancing Brazilian baby, with 112K shares. Moving further up the ...
The Data Leakage Roundup: Is Your Info Safe for 2011?
Honda and Mozilla are two more occurrances in a string of data breaches going down lately. Privacy, as Facebook knows all too well by now, is a very heated issue, and the same is now true for Honda. A Honda database containing over 2 million U.S customers’ personal data including e-mail addresses, names, login names and ...
VMware and Intel SAP Platform: A Case Study
A recent case study gives us a closer look at some big name cloud computing vendors, including VMware and Intel. It’s available at Business Solutions details Nashville, Tennessee-based Southwestern /Great American’s utilization of WMware and Intel technology to set-up a platform for SAP ERP deployment. The highlights are detailed below: “By virtualizing, we saved ourselves a ...
iPad Losses Ground in Online Publication
According to a recent report released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, publishers distributing digital issues have seen a significant year-end drop in sales of iPad editions. Vanity Fair sold only 8,700 digital issues in Nov. compared to an average of over 10K in the previous 3 months, Wired fell from 100,000 issues to only ...
GigaSpaces Technologies Partners with Protogen, Taking the Cloud Down Under
Virtualized application platforms developer, GigaSpaces Technologies announced it has added the Australian enterprise management solutions provider Protogen Technologies as a partner. The two have teamed up to deliver Australian clients high-speed processing and scalability using the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). “Protogen and GigaSpaces combine to provide our best-of-breed technology to Australian business,” says Adi Paz, ...
Android Market Apps Exceed the 200K Mark, Gains on iTunes App Store
According to third party Android Market tracker AndroLib, the Android Market has surpassed the handsome figure of 200,000 apps. Two months ago an official tweet by Google stated the Android Market had 100,000 apps, which means the number of application has doubled during that period. “Compared to Apple’s App Store, the Android Market is still ...
