IM on the iPhone is Still Popular: eBuddy Hits 100M Downloads

Kristina Farrah | September 30th

Since its launch last 2007, eBuddy has reached 100 million downloads, making it the most successful independent mobile instant messaging platform today. It aggregates major instant messaging interfaces like AIM, Facebook Chat, Google Talk,...»

HipLogic Steals MySpace Executive to the Mobile Side

Kristen Nicole | September 30th

Mobile app maker HipLogic has added two new executives to its lineup--Jason Ling and Stephanie Jorgl are the VP of Product Development and Head of Marketing respectively.  Coming from MySpace, Jason Ling is one...»

It’s Really No Surprise that Microsoft Gets Bad Press

Steven Hodson | September 29th

Everyone was chuckling a few days ago, ourselves included, in reacting to the the report that Microsoft has fallen out of favor with the media. As humorous as that might be, the flip side is that Mircrosoft,

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BitTorrent Close To Launching Live Streaming Technology

Tom Foremski | September 29th

Tuesday evening I attended a media roundtable at Boulevard in San Francisco with top executives from BitTorrent, which invented the popular file sharing technology that has about 80 million monthly users.

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Collaboration and Virtualization are Vital to the New Vision of Computing

Bert Latamore | September 29th

Collaboration is Key to Swollowing the Unstructured Data Tsunami, says Greenplum's Snee

If, as Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer says, trying to capture and process all the unstructured data flooding enterprises and large government agencies today

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Facebook Gets No Privacy in Court: New York Ruling

Kristen Nicole | September 29th

A state ruling in New York emerged today, stating that content shared on Facebook, even the private stuff, can be used as evidence in a court of law. More interestingly is the disparity in...»

Mobile Phone Picture Check Cashing Coming to Paypal

Kyt Dotson | September 29th

This gimmick has been out for a short period of time now from Chase bank QuickDeposit. The app enables people to take two photographs of a check written out to them—front and back—then submit...»

Greenplum’s Vision Alive and Well Inside EMC

Bert Latamore | September 29th

Greenplum, now EMC's Data Computing Division, was founded on a vision of “bringing the processing closer to the data and closer to the people,” says the division's VP of marketing, Richard Snee. In [http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/big-data-big-visions-richard-snee-greenplum-hadoop-and-enterprise-data-cloud an interview] on

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Google Goes Hyperlocal with Mobile Ads, Prepping its Future Market

Kristen Nicole | September 29th

Following up on this morning's statement about mobile being a major part of Google’s future search revenue, the company launched hyperlocal mobile ads. They come in the form of blue map markers for local...»

Cisco Headed in the Right Direction with Affordable Consumer Level Telepresence?

Kyt Dotson | September 29th

The networking-giant Cisco has made a strange move recently in their announcement that they will be offering technologically elegant telepresence devices to the home consumer. This seems a little odd to me because don’t...»