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Bright Future for Online Video Ads at BrightRoll: $30M Round
The best is yet to come for online video advertising, especially with mobile ads catching a powerful triple digit growth rate this year. The holiday season is looking pretty good for online ads as well. This is aside from the fact that a recent survey revealed that more than 70% of web users watch online content ...
ARM Gets Ready to Swim with the Blue Whale via HP MoonShoot
The fact the late Steve Jobs went with the neophyte ARM technology over the biggie Intel to propel their ultralight designs as seen in iPad—Jobs’ crowning glory. This perhaps became the springboard for Hewlett-Packard to tap their services for the much anticipated launch of HP Moonshoot—a project that would hopefully bring back the lost spark in ...
Evolution of Mobile Payments: No Hands, No NFC?
The world has already entered the renaissance of mobility, with social networking strengthening its pillars. The flourishing era of smartphones and tablets has given its many segments the backing it needs to establish a new industry and make billions of dollars from products and services associated to mobile devices. One of the lucky sectors to ...
A “Healthier” Medical Industry, Thanks to the Cloud
The cloud would usually be associated with either storage or computing in today’s technological cycle. But the cloud spans a much bigger circle and can be utilized in so many different ways, especially by enterprises. One sector exploring the immense potential of the cloud is healthcare. Medical IT has become a commonly used term to ...
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: They We’re Friends But…
If there are two people in the world that need no introduction, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs top my list. Their strong brands can already tell a million things: for Gates it is Microsoft and there is Apple for Jobs. My generation looks up to these two as the wizards that formed and strengthened the ...
Android Craves a Fragmentation Fix: Is Ice Cream Sandwich Tasty Enough?
With its undeniable dominance, Android still faces a lurking dilemma that could threaten its market leadership: fragmentation. Android has gazillion of hardware contractors, which makes implementing updates a monumental task—an advantage on the Apple side since they are the sole maker of iPhone software. To hopefully give their users a tasty treat and ease fragmentation ...
SolidFire Lets You Kiss Bottlenecks Goodbye, Catalyzes Cloud Storage Cost Savings
Cloud computing is still a new idea for a vast majority of IT organizations. According to a recent survey by Wikibon.org, 48% of IT practitioners in the U.S. indicate that they are just getting started with cloud computing or have no clear strategy with cloud. An additional 15% of those surveyed think cloud is “a ...
Coming Really Soon: Pseudonyms and Branding Pages in Google+
Google+ is on a roll with updates here and there. For a time I thought they had raised the white flag and succumbed to dominating Facebook and Twitter. Little did we know that Google’s bet for social networking kingship was just gathering resources to fuel new features and update policies. Now, Google+ has just announced ...
The End of Business as Usual Review: An Ego-system, Consumers Fuel Tech Engine
Facebook redecorating its interface by adding Timeline and Open Graph, Twitter involved in political advertising, Google+ intensifying gamification features, sleeker design of Apple 4s, Samsung tablets priced reasonably, daily deals and healthcare IT—these are some of the innovations that the world was fed the past few weeks or months. But amidst all the updates and ...
Online Jobs Spike in Q3: Animators, Mobile Apps Developers, and Content Writers Wanted!
Freelancing online jobs are perhaps the best alternatives that could alleviate the lack in formal employment as a consequence of weak economic health. This is an avenue that many skilled talents have explored for added income or become the primary source of making a living. The boom of social networking and Facebook is just one ...