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What? Juniper Networks Native on iPhone OS 4 – Not What I Expected
One thing that struck me about today’s Apple iPhone OS4 announcement is the addition of networking vendor Juniper to the list of upgrades. Juniper Networks just posted about their role in working with Apple to add software to the OS 4 release – also known as Junos. Recently Juniper announced a $50m venture fund dedicated ...
iPhone OS 4 Launched By Apple – Much Need Upgrade – Good For Users – Implications for Developers – Still No Flash
Apple is introducing a new big revision to the iPhone called OS 4. Apple® today previewed its iPhone® OS 4 software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members. The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) ...
Juniper Networks Buys Ankeena Networks: Service Providers Expand Their Revenue Model
Juniper Networks is announcing the acquisition of Ankeena Networks, a leading provider of new media infrastructure solutions. Ankeena offers solutions that deliver online media content at massive scale, while providing a television-like viewing experience for media with dramatically reduced delivery costs. The price of the acquisition is said to be less than $100 million. In ...
Mobile Ad Networks – Big Three Google, Apple, & Millennial Media And More and More Developing
UPDATE: Reuters is reporting that the FTC is about to blog the AdMob acquisition by Google. FTC is crazy. AllThingsD Mediamemo blog has a post speculating on two things: 1) Apple announcing a ad network dubbed the iAd and 2) FTC decision to approve the Google AdMob acquisition. With Google and Apple having proprietary ad ...
Yahoo Buying Foursquare: Sure Yahoo Would Benefit
Yahoo is rumored to be looking hard at Foursquare at a price of around $100 million according to Nicholas Carlson of BI. Last week I wrote a post on Foursquare when the venture capitalists started circling. Foursquare is a great example of Silicon Valley in action. Hot deals get pimped big time. Foursquare is no ...
HP Riding iPad Hype With Their Answer Called Slate – Casual Consumption
HP is riding the iPad hype by putting out information on their answer to the iPad called HP Slate. Not sure HP gains much by putting this out at this time. I think that HP would gain more by waiting til the iPad hype noise fads. Anyway HP is in the consumer business and needs ...
Social Media Myths – A Must Watch If In Social Media Marketing – Not Just PR But Branding Applications
Michael Brito who is now a VP at Edelman Digital caught up with Adweek’s social media analyst/write Brian Morrissey who is covering social media ad models like a blanket – he’s the digital editor of Adweek. Michael Brito grabbed his video camera and filmed the content below. I’ve been following Brian for long time now ...
First Look At Unpacking The Apple iPad – Video – Apple iPad Review
iPad hype is pumping on all cylinders days before the big launch on Saturday April 3rd. Here is a first look at the iPad from opening up the box to looking at the product. According to Walt Mossberg “Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop. ...
iFund Is Already Changing the Game – Silicon Valley In Action
KPCB announced they are doubling the iFund to handle the massive flow of new innovation that will emerge from the iPad launch on Saturday. Folks this is Silicon Valley in action. Big money making big bets on big markets. I love it. It’s good for all entrepreneurs and anyone creative who gets what is happening. ...
Juniper Networks $50 Million Venture Fund – Convergence & Innovation
Update: This post I tweeted and highlighted the fact that AT&T and Apple had “signal bar” issues. See the section below In this new networking paradigm or Infrastructure 2.0 market (smart networks) the trend as highlighted by Apple iPhone and Google Android is putting massive pressure on service providers to deliver capacity and growth in ...
