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LIVE Chat: Every Question You Ever Had about Flash – Who, Where + How Much?
Flash technology is changing system design for IT, prompting a massive shift in datacenter design and leaving dozens of questions scattered in the aftermath. The matter of transitioning to this new era requires a great deal of research, time and planning, introducing countless obstacles to address along the way. We’ll be hearing from industry experts ...
OpenStack Summit Rallies the Troops, Drives Competition for AWS
Just a few years old, OpenStack has burst onto the scene as an open source alternative to Amazon’s AWS, providing the likes of IBM, VMware and other large enterprise players to rally against Amazon’s encroachment on the enterprise. This week’s OpenStack Summit, an annual event that started five years ago with a budget of $15,000, ...
Why Nokia Should Stick with Windows 8: Do One Thing, and Do it Well
Nokia’s latest quarterly earnings report reveals some promising numbers for the Finnish smartphone maker and its continuous improvement with the Windows 8-powered Lumia sales worldwide, but it’s struggling in the U.S. In fact, North America was the only country that witnessed a decline in Nokia Lumia sales, while China seems hungry for Nokia’s high end ...
Is Facebook the Past for Gaming & Twitter The Future for TV?
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: EA pulls back from Facebook, Foxconn resumes hiring to gear up for production of the new iPhone, Google Fiber gets a boost from Sony, and more. EA just announced the closure of a number of its popular Facebook games such as The Sims Social, Pet Society, and SimCity ...
Obama Reaffirms Stance Against CISPA Bill, Cites Privacy Concerns
Despite hundreds of lobbyists, tens of millions of dollars and even a few dozen IBM executives marching on Capital Hill, the White House has shared its decision to veto the highly controversial and hotly debated CISPA cybersecurity bill, which set out to make it easier for the government and private companies to share data in their ...
Could a Microsoft SmartWatch Boost Win8 Sales?
Wearable devices. They’re all the rage, and even as the FitBand continues to grow in popularity, the next gadget craze is expected to be a smart watch: always-there, accessible and conceptually impregnated in our minds through decades of Sci-Fi flicks. So now that smartphones and tablets have completely saturated the market, the world awaits the ...
Apple Job Posting Hints at Smart Watch Project : Here’s 6 Ways to Win
Smartphones? So passe. Tablets? So 2012. The next “it” thing in consumer gadgets is the smartwatch, a device that could become all the more exciting with the use of flexible glass. We’ve seen the technology at CES (thanks Samsung), and we’ve seen a number of related patents filed, Google being the most recent. But the ...
LIVE : Will Microsoft’s 7-inch Surface Save Win8? Beat Out the iPad Mini?
Microsoft’s still new to the hardware game, launching with two 10-inch Surface tablets in the past six months. But Microsoft’s also late to the tablet game, entering a severely crowded market that’s ripe with handset variety. So it’s not surprising to hear that Microsoft’s working on a smaller Surface tablet at 7-inches, that would compete ...
Coinsetter Faces a Tough Crowd : There’s No Demand for Another Bitcoin Market
Bitcoin’s paradigm-shifting approach to currency has got the world in a tizzy, spawning a flurry of copycats, if nothing else. Coinsetter launches today with a well-funded entry into an ever-crowding market, where Bitcoin holds a substantial majority share. With $500k in seed money from Tribeca Venture Partners and SecondMarket founder and CEO Barry Silbert (via ...
LIVE : NewsDesk Show : The Sexy Side of Software-Defined Networking
The human brain is a silent muse in IT, always inspiring smarter connections throughout the datacenter. Networking isn’t immediately associated with something as complex as the human brain, but this area of the datacenter is getting smarter and more efficient all the time. Two trends driving innovation in the networking space are open source communities ...
