Federated Storage: What the Hell?
Next week is EMC World and we’re going to hear a lot more about Federated Storage. In March, EMC put Pat Gelsinger in front of the analyst community and he unveiled the vision of…
Skype to Release Group Video Chat
Skype is about to make life a lot better for its users, and enable a new world of possibilities for indie content producers. Internet calling service Skype plans a public "beta" test of a…
Hedge Funds Monitoring Bloggers for Trading Help
By Mary Wallace
Hedge funds are going outside traditional media sources, monitoring influential financial commentators, including bloggers who have a strong social media presence. Alacra, a data aggregator , monitors the opinions of 25,000 analysts by combing…
Mobile Processor Smackdown: Intel’s Atom vs. ARM
By Tom Foremski
Intel today announced a new Atom processor with lower platform power use with support for high performance graphics targeted at smartphone and tablet use. The latest Atom Z6xx is designed to compete against ARM…
How To: Make Money on YouTube [Charge ‘em!]
By Mary Wallace
YouTube isn’t just for home videos anymore. Filmmakers can soon upload their movie to YouTube and rent out views of their content. In the past, film distribution was limited to the studio system with…
Kickin $aaS: EchoSign Continues Its Ramp with Impressive Growth
By Nate D'Amico
Before Cloud, there was SaaS providers, before that, ASP’s. With Cloud Computing being the shiny new thing in the Enterprise and IT space over the past 18 or so months, people often forget its…
Zynga worth $4 Billion? Valuation might drop with Facebook Credits
By Mary Wallace
Zynga filed papers to issue an additional 1.9 million shares of Series B-2 Preferred Stock, at an issue price of $12.87 per share. The company has an estimated 320 million shares outstanding. Zynga has…
It’s Not About Unifying Storage [#StorageAngle]
There are rumors swirling that EMC will shortly announce a so-called “Unified Storage” platform. The Register’s Chris Mellor broke a story in March about a converged platform from EMC where he said: “EMC is…
Green IT, Green Gap, Tiered Energy and Green Myths
By Greg Schulz
There are many different aspects of Green IT along with several myths or misperceptions not to mention missed opportunities.
The Brilliance of Facebook’s Move to Make the Web Social
By socialnerdia
Social Media is really all about this: integrating life and technology. Facebook is the most widely used, widely known, and perhaps widely trusted social network in the world. As someone who got on Facebook…