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Live Gamer Acquires GamerDNA, BrandPort to Rocket Launch New Monetization Options
Ads make the world go round. Well, actually money does, but with advertising comes money – so it’s kind of the same thing. More online gaming companies, from the developer to the publisher end, have come to the decision that they need to have ads for varied monetization options. Live Gamer, an online market where ...
ViralHeat Scales Out to Handle the Data of Human Intent
Big data is a big buzz word, but holds little meaning if you don’t know what to do with it. In today’s technology culture, we’re all about data, from the tweets we send to the videos we stream. And every piece of data holds intrinsic information about us, our preferances, and our intent. Determining how ...
We’re Already Raving About Spotify: Hands-On Review
With the recent availability of Spotify to the US, it’s already getting great reviews from first-time users. We’re pretty impressed by it from the moment of download to the point when you’re actually listening to its massive music library. We went ahead and signed up for the unlimited version, filling out the necessary details (username, ...
VMware Launches vSphere 5: What You Need to Know
WATCH LIVE! And view our live blog here. Wikibon has been closely watching VMware’s pivot from being “just a hypervisor” company to becoming a leading contender in the race to own the new cloud computing economy. Today, VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will be hosting a webinar “unveiling of the next ...
Video Chat Summer Revival Inspired by Social, Mobile Tech
Video chat is seeing a big boom again, with social networks and mobile technology driving new points of integration for established services. Skype, Google, Facebook and AOL are gaining new opportunities to extend video chat services in refreshing ways, with Facebook and Google’s latest video chat integrations marking a new era in social computing. Within ...
Will Skype on Facebook Scale to 750M Users? A Look Under the Hood.
Facebook announced video chat integration powered by Skype yesterday, introducing a new way to communicate on the global social network. It’s a major point of integration for both services, especially for Skype. When it comes to integrating with such a stringently formatted network like Facebook, there’s some challenges and opportunities on Skype’s part, and we ...
VMware Furthers Mobile Social Enterprise with Zimbra for Android
Things have been very quiet at Zimbra of late, but the recent announcement of the availability of VMware Zimbra for Android (VZA) is perking things up. Initially the app has been described as just a fling, since it was a short term offering; it was not only a short term thing, but a fun project ...
Will Facebook’s Skype Video Chat Grow Network’s Big Data Demands?
Facebook’s holding steadfast to its social dominance, teaming with Skype to offer even more points of interaction within its network. The “something special” we’ve been waiting to hear about all week is indeed video chat on Facebook, powered by Skype. “it’s a way to connect with friends other than just posting messages,” Facebook CEO Mark ...
Bizzy Wants to Be the Yelp of Today’s Mobile Age
Bizzy’s local business app keeps growing, rolling out with new features in response to today’s mobile environment. This most recent update incorporates some social features into the app, with the aim of extending more personalized recommendations for local businesses, namely restaurants, about town. New social features include a feed for discovering new places from within ...
AppHarbor’s New API Gets Around Azure
.NET developers get a boost from AppHarbor this week, as the company releases an add-on API. The new developer tool provides a self-service portal for third-party providers, letting developers purchase cloud services directly through their interface, with full integration and additional functionality for the apps built on the AppHarbor platform. Seamless integration with pre-existing apps ...
