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Innovation Trends: Silicon Valley Verses Boston and The World – Consumerization of EveryThing Not Just IT
I just got back from my trip last week to the Boston and surrounding areas. Of course the Celtics Lakers were the big story, but I found myself contrasting the two regions from a tech angle and it’s relevance to how business is changing. Over the past decade Boston has fallen behind while Silicon Valley ...
Infographic: Public vs Private Cloud
There are as many definitions of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the major theme is that a Public Cloud provides IT resources that are provisioned remotely from the consumer and operated by a third party. In a Private Cloud, the infrastructure policies are governed by a single organization where workloads and data can ...
M&A $140m Action 10x Return- Venture Backed Storwize On The Selling Block
Reuters is putting out a story that Storwize is going to be bought by IBM for $140 million. Storwize, which develops online data compression software that increases storage space in network storage environments, has raised $40 million since it was founded in 2004. Storwize was funded by Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital, Tamares ...
Brocade Copies Juniper, Takes on Cisco and Emulex Tries to Take on QLogic in FCoE
According to eweek, Brocade is taking on Cisco in the datacenter for switches. This is on the heels of some other datacenter news where QLogic competitor Emulex announced they bought ServerEngines for a whooping $225 million when company was doing revenue of only $4 million per quarter ($16m per year). First the QLogic/Emulex and ServerEngines ...
What Twitter Really Means – Twitter User Data Highlights The Value Proposition
According to the Conversational Media summit in NY, Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo is putting out some stats on Twitter usage, unique visitors and more importantly the preferred user experience that Twitter is seeing. These latest number from Costolo confirms again that SiliconANGLE had the right angle on the meaning of Twitter. However, there is a ...
Apple WWDC Keynote Address Steve Jobs – The iPhone 4
Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduce the new iPhone 4. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4. Here is the video. It’s 1hr 52mins of epic Steve Jobs in this keynote address where he announces the iPhone 4 among other important Apple updates. Highlights The 8 things about iPhone 4. Mobile ...
Official Apple iPhone 4 Video- New Design Display and Video Chat
The Official Apple iPhone 4 Video and Announcement Apple® today presented the new iPhone® 4 featuring FaceTime, which makes the dream of video calling a reality, and Apple’s stunning new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in super crisp text, images and video. Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduce ...
Real Time Steve Jobs Soundbites Live – Apple News From WWDC
Summary of Steve Jobs quotes and sound bites. Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Apple WWDC in San Fransciso. It’s iPad mania and the fans are using their iPads to communicate directly to each other and to Steve. Here are some of Steve’s announcements and comments: We’re in 10 countries today, we’ll be in ...
Apple: New Everything Maybe Verizon – Apple WWDC World Wide Developer Conference
Apple will unveil their new stuff at their WWDC World Wide Developer Conference today. Here is what to expect from the day: New iPhone 4.0 – Fourth Generation Leaked last month via the iPhone scandal with Gizmodo. Not much more to add there. Expect some cosmetic changes with dual cameras, new processors, and better battery ...
Book Publisher Watchout For The Long Tail – iPad Disruption – Do It Yourself Books For App Store
Today a startup in Campbell California called FastPencil announced their iBookstore features and new distribution options that allow budding authors the ability to publish directly to iTunes App Store iBookstore. What makes this different from the other self-publishers who have touted iBook compatibility is that FastPencil is now the easiest way for authors to get ...
