Earth, fire, wind, water… and there are smartphones. With our global love for technology going in this direction, it’s not surprising to see that smartphones are becoming a huge platform, full of opportunities especially for emerging operating systems. In the United States alone, two big names are battling it out head-to-head for the OS kingship: Apple and ...

Hewlett-Packard is just in time for this year’s tablet summer showdown. The company moves on after series of bumps that include Hurd, Oracle and financial debacles with an iPad competitor. Today marks one of the biggest day (so far) of the year for Leo Apotheker and HP with the anticipated launch of TouchPad—a move that ...

While the big focus on big data is always the “managing” part, organizations should now start revisiting their strategies on how they farm within their data-rich landscape. Looking into other essential dimensions of the exponentially growing set of information will help businesses eliminate future challenges. With big data trends and needs shifting the way data ...

The hacker binge is still at large, even as the LulzSec witchunt lives on. But LulZec is possibly the one of the most notorious names in the business of hacking, even plotting attacks on government’s websites. To better prepare for the worst-case-scenarios LulzSec is primed to expose, organizations will need to reinforce their security arsenals to prevent breaches ...

The personal cloud is driving the industry wild with developments that have led many to believe that this platform is already spawning an entire ecosystem, and a self-sustaining one at that. In the United States alone, personal cloud services is expected to be a $12 billion-market by 2016. It also reigns supreme within organizations like Apple, ...

Everybody is in agreement that mobile phones and tablets have already colonized our planet. Particularly, the rise of smart phones has driven the mobile ads market to increase by 17% within a relatively short period of time. Enterprises are capitalizing on the fact that consumers are becoming highly dependent on mobile gadgets for music, gaming ...

Data deduplication is a blazing hot item for companies that are on the hunt for cost-effective storage solutions. A recent article depicted the huge impact on cost per terabyte of data deduplication together with compression provisioning on Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager. This is just one of the many transformations that this subject has brought major ...

And so the tech invasion of IPOs continues… More and more investors are now shifting their cards to IT companies that just recently went public. Pandora, LinkedIn, Bankrate and Renren saw impressive stock shares amidst market decline, according to Forbes.com. But, the biggest winner of the week is Fusion-io—it soared the highest and set a ...

Horton hatches the egg, but this is not Dr. Seuss speaking, it’s Yahoo!— opening a doorway to launch Hadoop spin-off anytime this week. With tougher challengers in the ring of open cloud including LexisNexis, Yahoo prepares Hadoop for some exciting updates to beef up for the battle for Big Data supremacy. Reports have mentioned that ...

It’s interesting to see my parents now have a Facebook or Twitter account, reconnecting with their old pals from way back who knows when. But when they started commenting/parenting within these social networking sites, that’s a different story. And yes, this made me feel that we just entered the “be careful what you tweet” era, ...