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Anti-Google-ITA Acquisition: Microsoft Joins the Travel Coalition
As reported here, Microsoft has now officially joined the online travel-related coalition against Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, a travel data company vital for, among others, the Bing flight search tool. We discuss the coalition here, as its participants include Expedia Inc., Kayak.com, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix Inc. “FairSearch.org made the announcement today, ...
Twitter and YouTube 2010 Trends
Today, both the micro-blogging and video network giants released their top 10 trends for 2010, and the one kicking off this coverage is Twitter. After 25 billion tweets submitted this year by users, Twitter has released its fairly predictable if not somewhat obvious ‘top 10’ trends list. “Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010 1. Gulf Oil ...
Nexus Joining the Vblock Partner Ecosystem
Network solutions provider Nexus today announced it’s joining the Vblock partners circulation. The company now qualifies to augment, resell, and deliver VCE’s Vblock™ platform, whose creation involved Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel. “The integrated nature of the Vblock platform reduces the time-consuming and costly planning, architecting and testing phases of deployment. In their NexSteps Innovation ...
FB Hate and Harassment Team: Privacy
The Facebook ‘hate and harassment team’ led by Dave Willner is a key aspect to Facebook’s on-going battle with illegal or terms-of-service-violating content. Nonetheless, while the team’s aim is to remove offensive, illegal and incompatible content, it also raises privacy concerns for some, adding up to the bulky list of concerns the social-network has already ...
Fusion-io Releases ioSphere Platform for Central Cloud Management
Tech and I/O solutions provider Fusion-io announced a new product called the Fusion ioSphere platform. The offering provides real-time monitoring and reporting features, centralized management for distributed environments, and Flash-optimized features including an ioMemory ability to act as cache for existing storage systems and more. “The ioSphere platform is a centralized interface for deploying and ...
Dell-Compellent Round Up: Getting Ahead of the Cloud
Enterprise cloud and data storage company Compellent has been stirring a lot of buzz in the past few months, the most recent item is Dell’s $1 billion acquisition, now confirmed. As we covered here, after the computer maker lost the battle over 3Par to HP, it’s now clashing with Hewlett-Packard (again), HP, EMC and IBM ...
Facebook Faces Privacy Issues, This Time in South Korea
Facebook seems to have encountered an array of privacy issues quite consistently lately. This time, South Korean authorities are involved. The South Korea Communications Commission demands that Facebook provide details on how it shares data with 3rd parties, with an emphasis on user information sharing awareness. “On Fan Pages, it seems that a new tweak ...
Infographic: Cloud Computing Growth and Trends
This infographic describes a cloud computing statistics from 2008 to 2013, and it summarizes some very important data. Cloud computing is expected to account for 25% of annual IT spending growth by 2012 and almost a third of all IT spending in 2013, as the way organizations utilize it is also expected to change. IDC ...
Google Releases 2 YouTube Updates, Extends Online Video Expectations
Today two major updates were released for YouTube. The first, announced in YouTube’s blog is an increase of the previous 15-minute user video length limitation. The specific amount of extra time this update adds to fully ‘legit’ users’ videos limitations was not disclosed in the blog post. “Starting today, we’ll begin allowing selected users with ...
Android Still Ahead of the Pack, Amazon and Intel’s Goals for Mobile
According to this PCMag coverage, there are around 300,000 Android Smartphone activations every day, as Google’s vice president of engineering Andy Rubin tweeted yesterday. Rubin was also at the ‘D: Get Into Mobile’ conference where he displayed a Honeycomb tablet for the first time, as well as the Nexus S Smartphone; additional ‘contributers’ to Android’s ...
