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Pride Put Dell in a Rut. Here’s the Way Out

Roger Kay, President of EndPoint Technologies, shared his ideas about where Dell currently stands in the market at Dell World 2012 in Austin, Texas (full video below). As far as Kay is concerned, the company has a long transition ahead, which can take up to a decade to adjust. Some of Dell’s faults are not ...

Dell is All About the Solutions, But Is That The Right Message for its New Market?

Dell is looking to make a name for itself as a solutions company, so it would only make sense for it to invest a significant portion of its marketing tactics into solutions. Russ Fujioko, Global VP of Solutions Marketing for Dell, explained what solutions marketing actually means: “Dell World is the actual incarnation of solutions ...

Amazon + Foxconn = iPhone Rivals in Mobility Biz

Amazon is taking a stab at the mobility market by coming out with its own smartphone sometime during the second quarter and third quarter next year, with the help from one of Apple’s trusted allies, Foxconn. Foxconn assembles Apple’s iPhones and also plans to help Amazon manufacture it’s smartphones as well. The company will be ...

Stephen Dewitt on What Makes HP Different from Competitors

“We are a portfolio company,” Stephen Dewitt, Senior VP of HP Enterprise Group Marketing, said. “We operate from the client to the data center.” During the HP Discover Conference 2012, Dewitt discussed the marketing tactics of HP as well as the services offered in big data and application transformation, which he described as “rich.” He ...

3 Components of HP Vertica 6.1 You Need To Know

Colin Mahony, the GM of Vertica, recently announced the arrival of Vertica 6.1 (code named “the Bulldozer”) at HP Discover 2012 earlier this month (full video below). Vertica 6.1 offers three main components that Mahony pointed out: Hadoop–This is the first analytic database company to introduce a Hadoop mad-produce connector and an HDFS connector, which allows ...

John McAfee the Movie: Who Would Play the Role?

John McAfee’s wild story of murder, bath salts and a hired body double seems more like a movie plot than the actual life story of the man who created the antivirus software for computers. Reading the news updates on his story is like reading the scripts to an action movie with multiple sequels. As the ...

Users Hoaxed into Believing Facebook Copyright Statement

We live in an era of social media. No one needs to acquire a real skill to be famous anymore. With the help of Instagram and Facebook, everyone has become a local celebrity, which explains why Facebook users thought they could copyright their pictures and status updates. This is the post some users have on ...

Top Data Journalism Trends in 2012: A New Era of Reporting

As technology evolves, the way the journalists research and report stories changes as well. No story was considered reliable unless there was a live source from an expert to solidify the writer’s angle. Nowadays, journalists don’t have to rely solely on interviews with experts to write their stories, able to uncover a wealth of knowledge ...

Ms. Cleo’s Been Replaced by Big Data, From Cradle to Grave

Remember flipping on the TV and hearing “call me now for your free reading” in a thick, island accent?  Ms. Cleo was all the rage in the 90’s. Even if some of us wrote her off as a phony and laughed at her crazy one-liners, some of us also took her predictions to heart because ...

Google TV Replaces the Remote Control with a Shout Out

Have you ever plopped down on the couch in front of the TV, with your chips and soda, eager to watch the newest episode of The Walking Dead, but you can’t find the remote anywhere? You look everywhere: underneath the cushions, behind the pillows, even under the coffee table, but you can’t seem to remember ...