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Can Rovio’s Bad Piggies Fare Better than Amazing Alex?
Rovio, best known for the sustained momentum that earned Angry Birds over one billion downloads to date, is branching out. Capitalizing on the success of the physics-game franchise, the Finnish game developer released a teaser trailer of an upcoming game called Bad Piggies, which will allow the player to enjoy the Angry Birds universe from ...
Venture Capitalists Invest Heavily in Cloud in 2011
It’s no secret that the cloud is hot. Steve Bengston, director of consultancy and financial services provider PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has shared some statistics that show exactly how hot. According to PwC, in 2011 venture capitalists (VC) shelled out $6.9 billion to fund “internet-specific” start ups, and most of these companies provide cloud related services and products. That’s ...
Microsoft Challenges Google with Office 365 Revamp
Microsoft is continuing its efforts to transfer its Office productivity suite dominance to the cloud and compete with Google Apps for the hearts of the business users. The Seattle giant’s Microsoft Office has long enjoyed an almost exclusive position in the enterprise, but many companies have begun to favor Google’s rival cloud software for its convenience, ...
Bloomfire: We Can Make LinkedIn Do Stuff
Bloomfire is a small team that recently dove head first into the highly-competitive social media scene with a LinkedIn add-on that brings a whole new layer to the business-oriented social media site. LinkedIn is so popular because the platform is specifically optimized for networking in the corporate jungle. It offers job seekers, head hunters and ...
BeyondPod Top This Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
This week’s top pick is BeyondPod, a feature-packed RSS feeder and podcast app. The application is names after the latter, which is where most of the development effort has gone into: BeyondPod has a nifty way of saving memory, can make content recommendations and overall makes tuning content into a podcast as convenient as it ...
Node.js Central to Nodester Buy, Boost for AppFog
In a post on the Nodester blog, AppFog chief exec Lucas Carlson announced that his company has acquired the Node.js PaaS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppFog already supports Node as well as Java, Ruby, PHP and a number of other popular languages and frameworks. This buy will enable the firm to beef ...
Microsoft Puts it Weight behind Office 2013, On Demand with Full-Feature Access
Microsoft’s Office suite is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but the cloud is biting bigger and bigger chunks out of its market share as the role of the desktop gradually diminishes in the office. Workers are turning to alternatives, namely Google Docs, to view and edit their documents more conveniently, and ...
This Week in Big Data: New Software, and An Analytics-Ready Mainframe
There were a few major developments this week, three of which were product launches. The most significant of these may have been Pervasive’s DataRush debut, a software solution that could help enterprise boost Hadoop efficient for a reasonable price. On its own Hadoop skirts 20 percent server utilization. This is extremely low in comparison to ...
This Week in the Cloud: VMworld, Cloud Lockers and OpenStack
This week’s biggest highlight by far was VMworld, one of the most popular trade shows in the industry. The big emphasis this year was on the software-driven data center and simplicity, and both VMware and the other vendors that exhibited at the event managed to deliver big time. VMware itself debuted the newest version of ...
Qualcomm, Broadcom Settle ItoM Patent Suite
Semiconductor Ideas to the Market BV is a firm that generates its revenue by licensing bits of its massive patent portfolio, similarly to chipmaker ARM. The Netherlands-based company (more commonly known as ItoM) is a Philips spin-off that turned independent in 1998, and makes chips and silicon-bases products for used by device manufacturers. It just ...