Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable. Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC. Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.

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Motorola Demos Mobile Printing via Android App: CTIA 2010

Motorola is going hard with Android, demonstrating a new app for printing documents to a number of printers. The app is called Motoprint, and it’s currently in beta. Content on your phone can be sent to any PostScript printer, as long as it’s on the same LAN as your phone. Supported documents include Microsoft Office, ...

Puppet Labs Appropriately Acquires the Marionette Collective, Growing the Open Cloud

Puppet Labs, the open source data center management project behind Puppet, has acquired the Marionette Collective, growing its services and building out its open source solutions.  The Marionette Collective is, too, an open source project, offering real-time network discovery capabilities. For Puppet Labs, the acquisition means an improved dashboard, which ties in with the company’s ...

IBM Re-brands Storwize with New Storage Solutions Lineup

More big news from the cloud–IBM is launching a new product line of data storage solutions, all in the name of re-branding efforts. Its Storwize acquisition has been renamed Real-Time Compression, unveiling a new site to go along with the changes underfoot. The new storage solutions aim to address the growing demand from companies, as ...

QLogic’s New Series Launch, Setting Precedents for Virtualized Data Center Management

QLogic has taken a major step forward, announcing its new, third-gen 10GbE converged networking portfolio at a New York event this morning. Code-named 3GCNA, the portfolio features a number of breakthrough technologies, which are based on QLogic’s Network Plus Architecture. The result is the new 8200 Series 10GbE converged network adapters, 3200 Series 10Gbe intelligent ...

Egenera Brings Virtual Unified Computing to Fujitsu Blade Servers

Cloud service provider Egenera has added PAN Manager Software support for Fujitsu blade servers, bringing converged infrastructure tools to the Japanese company’s products. Supporting the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Server, this is the latest in a growing line of partnerships Egenera is forging, spreading its virtual software to another server provider. This comes on the ...

Logitech Revue Plus Google TV: Complete Home Entertainment Experience

Yesterday brought the officiaLl announcement of Google TV, with the launch of its mini site, describing the upcoming service. As one of its launch partners, Logitech got its time in the spotlight, as its set top box will be one of the devices required for the Google TV service. Now we have word of the ...

Facebook Groups, Profile Downloads and Application Dashboards

Aside from new Groups, Facebook is feeding new features to a few areas of the social network, all aimed at giving users more control over the data they share, with whom they share it, and what can be done with shared content for personal use. During the Facebook event today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed some ...

Facebook Launches New Groups, Supports Chat and E-mail

Realigning the social graph.  At Facebook’s event today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new Groups feature for better organizing the content you share within the social network.  It’s an extension of what Facebook already had in the way of Lists, but they’re better oriented for specific sharing amongst your growing network of friends, family members ...

Cisco Dives Head First into Home Telepresence, Launches umi

Cisco’s confirmed its goals around telepresence and home entertainment and communications tools, with the introduction of a new product, Cisco umi telepresence.  It works by connecting an existing HD television and internet to power video teleconferencing in the home, for business or personal use. The set comes with an HD camera and console, as well ...

Google Instant Previews Mark Ongoing Changes in Search

Google’s continuing to rapidly evolve its Instant search results tool, with testing of full-page previews.  They offer detailed insight to search results as you’re searching, letting you see a website before clicking on it.  The goal here is to save even more time during a query. Though instant previews are still only experimental features, they ...