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New Zynga Game and Expansion with Yahoo
Social game developer Zynga has big plans to extend its reach, as that includes a new game called CityVille and a deal with Yahoo for game expansion. The deal was established some time ago but was temporarily downsized, in the wake of Zynga’s success with Facebook. “Users can now play and share games such as ...
Comcast’s New Executive Structure for NBC
Following months of speculation, Comcast has finally announced the new executive structure for NBC Universal, making noteworthy changes on both the content and distributions sections of its digital operations, as all of the newly appointed execs now have the title of ‘chairman’. “Matt Bond…becomes executive vice president of content distribution at NBCU… Lauren Zalaznick will ...
HP Launching New $442 Desktop, Takes on Dell in India
Hewlett-Packard will begin to offer the HP DreamScreen touch-screen and video chat supporting desktop later this month, in 700 outlets located in 60 cities within the Indian market. The DreamScreen will be sold for 19,999 Indian rupees, equivalent to around $442. “Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will offer a new desktop personal-computer in India, after the ...
Local Shopping Sites Get Aggressive as Holiday Shopping Sets In
Real-time online shopping website and coupon service Milo has announced it’s launching a new coupon feature. This new addition offers users exclusive discounts from retailer partners and additional ones from coupon aggregator Spotzot, redeemable at over 28,000 local stores and counting. “New coupons are introduced daily and, alongside Milo.com’s simplified interface and improved search speed, ...
OpenStack Pushes Onward: Two Cloud Platform Releases
After the first OpenStack Object Storage code release nicknamed “Austin”, the OpenStack open-source cloud project and community completed its first public Design Summit last week, attracting 250 people to the 4-day event. The summit centered on the next two code releases of the cloud storage and services provider’s releases, as these were nicknamed “Bexar” and ...
Compellent Signs Fusion Systems as Partner
Enterprise storage systems provider Compellent today announced that Fusion Systems, a Tokyo-based IT consulting and software provider, is now an official channel partner of the company, strengthening its reach in to the Asia Pacific market. “Compellent appointed Fusion Systems because of the firm’s knowledge and experience supplying and supporting advanced technology solutions to commercial clients ...
Online Video Viewing Behavior: the Female Version
According to this Nielsen report, U.S online video consumption is on the rise, but even more notably, women between the ages of 25-44 – both stay-at-home moms and working women – like to spend more time watching clips, videos and TV shows online than one would think. “Four key themes stood out: Streaming among women ...
Brocade Introduces Ethernet Fabric Solutions
San Jose-based networking solutions developer Brocade today announced the introduction of the “first true Ethernet fabric switching solutions…” The new Brocade VDX(TM) 6720 Data Center Switches deliver Brocade VCS™ technology and were especially developed for highly virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers. From the released statement: “Brocade’s new VCS technology and the innovative VDX product line present ...
EMC Adding Support for Microsoft Hyper-V
As announced at TechEd Europe 2010 and also covered here, EMC is launching a new infrastructure aimed to shorten private cloud applications’ deployment time utilizing MS virtualization technologies including System Center and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. “By using technologies from EMC and Microsoft, customers can increase control and customization, and scale efficiently to provide the ...
Microsoft Sees Statewide Adoption of IT Academy in N.C.
Microsoft IT Academy will be set up in every high-school in the state of North Carolina throughout the course of 3 years. This will increase MS IT Academy’s user base from the current 9,000 globally in 100 countries to around 211,500 and making N.C the first state to adopt it statewide. From Microsoft’s blog: “[…] ...
