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Cirtas Storms Into the Cloud Space, with $10M from Amazon and Others
Cirtas, a new cloud storage system, emerges from stealth mode today. It’s off to a great start with $10 million in Series A funding, led by NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Amazon. The company is hitting the ground running, with no plans of becoming a forgotten startup in the crowding sea of cloud-computing solutions. That ...
Anything You Can Do, Google Does Better
Anything you can imagine Google doing, they’re in the process of doing it. That goes from high-level takeovers to feature inclusions on their Apps. This determination to dip their hands into every possible jar is ruffling more than a few feathers, as Google encroaches on Apple’s mobile market, Facebook’s social network, Microsoft’s software, Mozilla’s web ...
Microsoft Launches Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 Apps and RTB Exchange
Advancements for real-time bidding for mobile ads, coming from Microsoft Advertising today. The company is launching its Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile. The intent bend the new SDK is to encourage marketing innovations around its mobile platforms. They will enable ad serving for Windows Phone 7 apps, ...
Juniper Networks Confirm Latest Microsoft Vulnerability Solutions
Juniper Networks announced a new supported security solution for Microsoft vulnerabilities today, confirming its Intrusion Detection and prevention system, as well as the Integrated Security Gateway. Par of Juniper Network’s J-Security Center, the updates are intended to minimize disruption in physical machines and virtual environments, with the ISG designed as a firewall/virtual private network system ...
Yahoo TV Lands on Toshiba HDTVs, Fragmenting App Market
Yahoo’s seeking some additional expansion through apps. What else? The company’s Yahoo Connected TV is now available on several new models Toshiba HDTV’s, including the WX800 Cinema Series(R) 3D LED. Viewers will have an interactive app market for accessing movie and television content from Yahoo’s network, directly through their televisions. “Yahoo! is reaching consumers wherever ...
IBM Chief Blasts HP, Company to Acquire OpenPages to Bolster Analytics
More disdain for Hewlett-Packard and the way it handled the 3PAR bidding war, as well as the Mark Hurd fiasco–this time coming from IBM Chief Executive Samuel J. Palmisano. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Palmisano made more than a few candid comments about the poor judgment used by HP. The comments exemplify the ongoing ...
Super Rewards Launches In-Game Offers, Looks to Live-Games in the Future
Super Rewards is back at it, with a new in-game overlay. It brings new Offer options for developers to play around with, presenting more opportunities to catch gamers at various points throughout their game play. At these points, users have direct payment options to make purchases that directly improve their gaming experience, adding new items ...
The New Twitter Looks Great, But Won’t Kill Tweetdeck
Twitter fans can lay today’s speculation to rest; the new site has arrived. It looks a lot cleaner, much like Tweetdeck’s Twitter client, and finally makes it easier to navigate the main website. With a simplistic and stylized interface, you can finally extract the functions of Twitter, which are much more sensibly laid out. There’s ...
Chase Bank Site Down All Day, Disappointing 16.5 Million Customers
Update: The Chase bank website is back up and running, at least since I checked earlier this morning. As the Associated Press reports, however, the site is still having outage issues. I still have all my money. How about you? Anyone else feel the need to stuff some mattresses and keep that gold jewelry? Not ...
Juniper Networks and Altor Say Enterprise Needs Dual Security in Virtualization: Real-Time Survey at VMworld 2010
Juniper Networks and Altor teamed up at VMworld 2010 to conduct a real-time survey of customer and enterprise needs, looking at their own current offerings to determine the best course for their future pipeline. The two cloud companies, which have an established business partnership as well, found that over a third of the 200+ firms ...
