Kristina Farrah

A ninja, a tech enthusiast and a lover of sparkly things. Writing in the tech space has become an important part of my role as an observer and historian. As passionate as I am in what I do, I look forward to telling stories of how technological advancement broke out to unprecedented levels, and that I was right there in the middle of it –watching the world change before my very eyes.

Latest from Kristina Farrah

Skype Acquisition: How Important Was it for Microsoft and Other Upshots

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Marking Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, it finally closed the all-cash deal to purchase internet communications company Skype Global Inc. SA for a whopping $8.5 billion. It is the latest addition to Microsoft’s division and will be running under Microsoft CEO Tony …

Android Drops A Few Bombs at Google I/O 2011

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

The success of Android is remarkable. In retrospect, people barely knew Android two and half years ago, with only one device, in one country, on one carrier. Today, it boasts 100 million activated Android devices; 400,000 new Android devices activated every day; …

Upset Juniper Executive Goes to Competitor Cisco Amidst Restructuring Plan

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Along with the promotion of Stefan Dyckerhoff contained in a Juniper internal memo by CEO Kevin Johnson, David Yen was reported to be departing the company effective immediately. According to sources, he will transfer to Cisco to run its servers business. The …

Will Google Wow Developers with an Ice Cream Release at I/O?

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Knowing Google, the supposedly annual developer conference they dubbed as Google I/O is certainly to go beyond its label. It’s gonna commence in a couple of hours in San Francisco so check out their official site to know their itinerary.

Dell Unleashes PowerEdge M915 blade, a New Four-socket Blade

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Dell's doing a great deal to move into the cloud services industry, and it latest development is the launch of a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores, tagging high hopes of faster virtualization. The PowerEdge M915 blade will run …

EMC, Others Color the Cloud Green

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Tech companies have a bazillion reasons to go green: insanely high energy outlays, stern environment regulations, the demand for bigger data centers to respond to growing business demands, Greenpeace chasing “un-eco-friendly” companies like crazy etc. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …

Mobile Payments Race Getting White Hot

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Being handiest of all devices in the market today, investors are making a lot of smartphone-centric investments in order to position themselves in this booming trend. People could leave behind their laptop and netbooks, but never their mobile devices. It has become …

Stuff Social Media Safely in the Cloud: Symantec Enterprise Vault

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

Cloud storage provider Nirvanix today announced that its Nirvanix Cloud Technology will become the storage tier for the latest edition of Symantec Enterprise Vault, the Enterprise Vault 10. With this new storage, social media (aka Facebook, Twitter, blogs, email and instant message) …

Allvoices Acquisition, a Datran Media Strategy

NEWS By KRISTINA FARRAH15 YEARS AGO

One of the most trafficked social news sites in the world with more than 460,000 contributors and about 10 million unique visitors per months, Allvoices is acquired by Datran Media, a leading digital marketing technology. This will provide Datran media a base …

Kristina Farrah

Latest from Kristina Farrah

Skype Acquisition: How Important Was it for Microsoft and Other Upshots

Android Drops A Few Bombs at Google I/O 2011

Upset Juniper Executive Goes to Competitor Cisco Amidst Restructuring Plan

Will Google Wow Developers with an Ice Cream Release at I/O?

Dell Unleashes PowerEdge M915 blade, a New Four-socket Blade

EMC, Others Color the Cloud Green

Mobile Payments Race Getting White Hot

Allvoices Acquisition, a Datran Media Strategy

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