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.

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IBM Expands to Asia Pacific, Allocates $38 Million in Cloud Computing Data Center

In order to extend the possibilities of cloud computing to the Asia Pacific, as well as address its expansion to the region, IBM today announced a $38M budget in construction of a new Cloud Computing Data Centre to be based in Singapore. It will serve as an extension to IBM’s globally-integrated cloud delivery network with ...

EMC Continues to Lead the External Disk Storage Systems Market: Fourteen Years of Glorious Reign

EMC Corporation deserves to be called a world leader in information infrastructure as it continues to be the top source of external disk storage systems in terms of factory revenue for 14 years now, says the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. It has acquired shares from key markets it serves, as well ...

Bing Partners with Kayak, Google’s Challenge Takes Flight

Microsoft search engine, Bing, today announced a partnership with Kayak.com, a travel comparison site, to deliver accurate and reliable flights results in the United States. The move follows right after the Bing improvements declared last week. Microsoft was formerly using data from Farecast, an online travel search engine the tech giant acquired back in 2008. ...

SalesforceUnleashes Service Cloud 3 to Span All Social Channels

Salesforce.com today uncovers Service Cloud 3, which the enterprise cloud computing company claims to be the next generation of social contact centers. Organization of all sizes can now communicate and get involved with customers across social communities such as Twitter, Facebook, and several others via Radian 6. Operation will also come off fast and easy ...

Social Media Experience inside Bricks-and-Mortar Businesses

It’s a digitalized world, and in order to stay inside the competition, there are factors that retailers have to be constantly adapting to, and one of these is bringing to customers in-store social experience. This is a perfectlopportunity just in case you can’t establish a strong presence within the virtual world to cater tech savvies ...

HubPages’ Premium Ad Rates Now Accessible to Individual Writers

Premium rates of HubPages, which used to be restricted to giant publishers only, are now accessible to online writers as well with the launch of HubPages Ad Program. Online writers can now get a chunk of advertising revenues available via premium advertising networks and direct sales while retaining content ownership.

Playworks Benefits from the Salesforce.com Foundation

Committed to its mission of providing safe and healthy play-inclusive physical activities in school, the Salesforce.com Foundation, a global leader in integrating philanthropy and business today announced the success of non-profit organization, Playworks, in leveraging with Salesforce CRM and Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform. Aside from benefitting of the platform’s efficiency, Playworks also became one ...

China and US Join Forces To Battle Online Exploitation and Spam

At the Anti-Abuse Working Group 21st General Meeting in Orlando, Florirda last Feb. 23, EastWest Institute's Chief Technology Officer Karl Frederick Rauscher gave announced a joint effort of China and United States against spam incursion, and the document was scheduled to roll out next month. Fighting Spam to Build Trust will be the issue to ...

Cisco Advances Video Capabilities to Benefit Enterprises

Cloud giant Cisco delivers on its promise of improving business collaboration and communication by uncovering today some user-friendly tools in producing videos. It’s now easier for enterprises to create, consume, search and share their videos across their network.

CBS Content Now on Netflix

CBS announced last Tuesday that it will bring some of its most popular programs to Netflix as inked in a non-exclusive two-year contract. By non-exclusive, it means other video-on-demand streaming services aren’t hopeless in having CBS programs on their service as well. The broadcast network has always been cagey of their contents, and refused to ...