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EMC CMO Jeremy Burton – Tech Marketing Is Now Fun and Storage is Sexy – Social Media Is Key
EMC CMO Jeremy Burton on SiliconANGLE’s The Cube video show during our live coverage at EMC World 2010 in Boston. Jeremy got his marketing chops from his days at Oracle where Larry Elission plucked him out of engineering to run marketing. Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from SAPphire on Justin.tv Jeremy is big ...
End of The PC Era – Mobile Growth Validated By Developer Growth – Millennial Media Upgrades Android iPhone SDK For Mobile App Developers
Millennial Media is announcing new SDKs for Android and iPhone to help their developer community, which has grown 138% since January, make better, more engaging ads. The Android SDK will see most of the updates which brings it up to speed with the current iPhone SDK. Android and iPhone continue to be important sectors of ...
FriendFeed Founder Bret Taylor Gets a Rest Becomes Facebook CTO – No Direct Reports
According to Techcrunch who received an email from Facebook’s PR team, Bret Taylor has become the CTO of Facebook. Bret Taylor is know for working on Google Maps not Gmail at Google then striking out on his own to launch Friendfeed with Gmail creator Paul Buchheit. Friendfeed a great engineered product that was loved my ...
The One Big Reason Why Apple and Steve Job Dominates + Some Steve Jobs Videos
It’s great to watch the coverage from the #D8 conference put on by Kara Swisher and AllThingsD.com. One big highlight was the presence of Steve Jobs. The one main thing that jumps out at me from all the Steve Jobs interviews is his focus on role of "the product" from Apple. As all the bloggers ...
Confirmed: Millions of Skype iPhone Apps Downloaded in Days – New Skype iPhone App Hitting Over One Million Dowloads A Day
Update: Skype just confirmed over email that they have seen millions of downloads. According to VP of Corporate Communications Brian O’Shaughnessy “millions of downloads of an app that for the FIRST time brings true HD quality to the mobile calling experience”. Brian didn’t confirm the million per day but he did say “millions”. I stand ...
HP Swallows EDS Preparing An Acquisition Run- Eliminating 9k Jobs- Hello Cloud
HP is announcing a massive investment and re-launch of their Enterprise strategy. In the announcement HP will invest $1 billion tin the next generation of its Enterprise Services business. In the announcement they are touting the operational margin benefits and downplaying the elimination of 9,000 jobs. To be fair the elimination of the 9,000 jobs ...
New Mobile Ad Models Coming Fast – GoogMob – Google Finally Punches It Home with AdMob Deal
Google finally got the deal with AdMob done. What a pain in the ass for them. The FTC jumped in their underwear from day one. I was against the FTC involvement from the beginning. No need to go into that just read my posts on the subject here. The big play now for Google is ...
Video: EMC President Has An Angle on Social Media – Short Vid Worth Watching
Pat Gelsinger, President of EMC, sat down with me at SAP Sapphire on SiliconAngle’s The Cube. Here is a highlight where he talks about social media and gives his angle on what it means. Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from SAPphire on Justin.tv
Gartner Results Confuse The Word “Mobile” – Mobile Is Smartphones Not PC Notebook
Gartner just put out a study using the word Mobile which will confuse a few people. The world of mobility is changing and I think that it’s time to hang up the notion that notebooks are mobile. No one wants to lug around a notebook when you have an smartphone. This is what Gartner just ...
Performance Matters In Private Cloud & Stack Wars – Storage Traffic Important Part of Cloud Equation
This morning my friend at Wikibon Project, Dave Vellante, posted an inside baseball analysis on some QLogic news this morning. His post ties directly into a post I was writing this morning on the dynamics of Private Cloud and how storage is sexy. I think the QLogic news Dave dives into is a big datapoint ...
