Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

Latest from Maria Deutscher

The Kindle and Mobile Tech: Proving Demand Beyond Smartphones

Amazon has released a new update for its free Kindle for Android e-Reading app, blessing it once more with an array of extra features, and demonstrating once again just how long its been since the Android user had to go to their local bookstore. The app that enables users to enjoy over 700,000 Kindle books ...

Target Introducing iPad to its Stores, and the Holiday Shopping Season Preparation Begins

Target has just announced it will start carrying 4 different models of the Apple iPad, as of October 3rd.  These include the 16, 24 and 36GB models as well as the Wi-Fi 3G model.  It’s of course, in time for the holiday shopping season, through a retailer that looks forward to this time of year, ...

Hotmail Updates: If Google’s Not There, Microsoft Is

Microsoft has released a number of notable updates to its e-mail service following the launch of the “re-invented Windows Live Hotmail” a few months ago, and is planning another wave with their news roll out today. This one will transform Hotmail into more multi-functional and collaborative tool, as all of these extra ‘little’ features are ...

Bill Cook Shares Greenplum’s Vision Post EMC Acquisition

Greenplum is the 10-year old company in the ever-expanding and rocketing field of intelligence and data warehousing space that had been acquired by EMC last July.  Bill Cook, CEO of Greenplum discusses the company’s vision and the integration with EMC right here at SiliconANGLE. “The whole premise of the company [since its foundation] was to ...

Cloudera Co-Founder Amr Awadallah on Hadoop’s Role for the Enterprise

Editor’s Note:  The following is an interview SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier held with Clouder co-founder, Amr Awadallah.  This is one of several in-depth interviews held at the conference, which was streamed live at SiliconANGLE.tv. Cloudera, a company offering enterprises software, training, certification, technical support and more, is currently in the intense development process towards a ...

Nokia Reclaiming the Market: Is it Possible with Elop and Delays?

As the company expands the market for smartphones on a daily basis, Nokia’s main competitors, including Apple and Android devices, have minimized this Finland-based company’s share of the market from 45 percent to only 37.4% last year alone. This, in addition to the 60% loss Nokia’s shares has suffered ever since  iPhone had launched three ...

HP Brings the Android Tablet and Apps to the Printer

Hewlett-Packard is the computer manufacturer with at least a dozen products in every gadget-related store. With the launch of the latest generation of its TouchSmart desktop computers and newly introduced Apps Center, it seems that this mega-corporation is looking to add a few more of its products to that list, while rocketing one of its ...

3PAR Certifies Oracle VM: Houston, Maximized Possibilities will Finally be Landing

Recently acquired by Hewlett-Packard, international provider of utility storage 3PAR has announced official support and certification for the particularly efficient and cost-effective application virtualization provider Oracle VM, starting from November 2010: “3PAR Utility Storage has brought high levels of efficiency, performance, and flexibility to our Oracle Red Stack cloud service offering,” said Marc A. Caruso, ...

After 5 Years at the Making: Oracle’s Fusion Applications Launch at Open World

This week’s Oracle Open World event in San Fran has brought many exciting news and announcements. Among others and perhaps predominantly, the news that Oracle’s Fusion Applications, a means of universal integration that also adds functionality to customer’s applications while eliminating substantial business disruptions and the need for specialist integrators as well, will be available ...

Microsoft vs. Sony: The More Competitive the Better.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 had outsold every other competitor this past August. After embracing the new trend of this year’s gaming frenzy (i.e. motion-sensing) with Kinect,  it’s long-time competitor is already breathing down its neck.  Sony is introducing the already popular PlayStation Move that launches this Sunday in retail shops, but confusingly enough, already available on ...