M&A $140m Action 10x Return- Venture Backed Storwize On The Selling Block

John Furrier | June 14th

Reuters is putting out a story that Storwize is going to be bought by IBM for $140 million. Storwize, which develops online data compression software that increases storage space in network storage environments, has raised $40 million...»

SeaMicro’s Atom Out to “Greenify” Cloud Computing

Kristen Nicole | June 14th

The long-awaited details of the new SeaMicro server have been revealed, complete with 512 Intel Atom chips that reduce the size of the server, as well as its load. SeaMicro, which has raised...»

TripAdvisor Says Your Friends are Smart and Important

Kristen Nicole | June 14th

It's summertime and I keep hearing the anthem on the radio, reminding me that I need to get out and enjoy the warm weather. A vacation, you say? Sounds fine! And where do you recommend...»

You Can’t Automate Community Management

Angela Connor | June 11th

This isn’t intended to be a rant against my former employer; they did what they had to do, much of which involved figuring out next steps for the community and how they’d like to see it develop

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World Cup 2010 on the Web, Cake Walk.

Kristen Nicole | June 11th

Stephen Colbert may have reminded us Americans how much we loath soccer, but the world wide web has brought the World Cup 2010 to every corner of the world. That includes the United States....»

On Location, Privacy and Risk

Jay Livens | June 11th

I was recently listening to the Infosmack Po dcast #50 over at StorageMonkeys and the speakers were discussing location-based social networking applications. Specifically, they talked about Foursquare although the same discussion to

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comScore Whoops! Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Still Figuring Out Search

Kristen Nicole | June 11th

comScore released numbers on Microsoft and Yahoo search engines this week, indicating that the two Google competitors are growing in their market share. The May 2010 U.S. Search Data report shows that Microsoft Bing/MSN...»

T-Mobile’s Free Handsets, the Latest Hat Trick?

Kristen Nicole | June 11th

T-Mobile (in the U.S.) is still just one of the "others." You know, not AT&T. Meaning, you won't find any iPhones here. But that hasn't put T-Mobile completely out of the smart phone game....»

Brocade Copies Juniper, Takes on Cisco and Emulex Tries to Take on QLogic in FCoE

John Furrier | June 10th

According to eweek, Brocade is taking on Cisco in the datacenter for switches.   This is on the heels of some other datacenter news where QLogic competitor Emulex announced they bought ServerEngines for a whooping $225 million when...»

HTC Evo and Android Out to Save Sprint

Kristen Nicole | June 10th

Sprint is still struggling to regain a foothold in the treacherous mobile wars, which get especially gruesome around this time of year. Steve Jobs' annual iPhone upgrades are becoming regular events around which...»