With IT anything is possible, even beating Britney Spears’ record of getting married and divorcing within 24 hours. This is what happened to Skype today. The only difference is that they immediately rekindled romance with iPad. The world just saw how fickle Skype for iPad can be as it was launched, pulled out and re-launched ...

The recent OSCON 2011 event has paved the way for some open source cloud education. The event that highlighted enterprises like OpenStack, VMware and Hadoop created a positive impression in this space. And, little did we know that eBay is an avid fan of the open source cloud. It uses WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) ...

NASA invited 150 Twitter followers to a “tweetup” to witness the launch of a Jupiter-bound spacecraft.  It’s a testament to the scope and influence of social media and networking nowadays, particularly Twitter. Even President Obama has been seen utilizing Twitter to communicate to the state, and his opponents. The five-year old, zero to hero social ...

The mobile enterprise invasion has altered the ways we live.  With tablets around, the gravity of its effects radiates from our global workforce, students and casual daily use, such as reading and media-sharing.  This idea has spurred growth in developing apps for leading platforms, namely Android and iOS.  Now, the app that made magazine reading available for ...

Whether pitching video games as accessory-to-the-crime or joining racism’s heed, one thing is certain: technology and real-life are inseparable. Sometimes, one world crosses over into the other. Sometimes, things just linger in the fantasy realm. But the juncture truly is shaping the planet that we know today. These topics seem to be at the helm ...

Poor customer service spreads like wildfire. And with present-day technologies, that wildfire spreads speedier and on a larger scale.  A rant from an unhappy customer could demolish a business in a snap.  This is what LiveChat realizes in terms of ecommerce and customer satisfaction. And, where else to look for the spark before it could ...

Speed is tantamount to efficiency when you speak of IT solutions. The faster, the better. It saves time, saves energy and delivers fast results. This concept powers Xiotech, a company that shatters binary solutions and offers ground-breaking hybrid ISE or Intelligent Storage Element.  Showing immense potential in bringing high performance solutions to the table, Microsoft ...

Servicing the industry’s big names like HP, IBM and Dell, a partnership with Fusion-io can be a good bet. Today, the pioneer in flash storage memory has announced significant positive results when StatSoft’s STATISTICA tested Fusion ioMemory. The after-testing performance results yielded 300 to 500 percent latency reduction and increased efficiency. Fusion ioDrives catalysed CPU ...

Mark Zuckerberg is somewhere partying now, raving over the news of Google+’s traffic decline.  After reaching a few summit points coupled with great early adopter reviews, Google+ experiences its first major bump in the road. According to a Bloomberg report, the week of July 23rd marks a 3 percent slide in total Google+ visits—this accounts for ...

The open source cloud is a topic that has been the focus of many debates, especially when we touch on the idea of freedom and the extent of what openness is. But, while uncertainty looms around the term, one thing is for sure; it is the heart and soul of Oscon 2011. Taking place this week, ...