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Nokia to Launch WP7 Device in 2011, but already Reporting Negative Results
Nokia has lost a huge amount of market share since the iPhone launched four years ago, and it’s time to do some serious damage control. The company had its earnings call for the second quarter, where it reported a serious decline across just about every category aside from Navteq and infrastructure business JV Nokia Siemens ...
SAP Pushing Mobile Strategy on a Global Scale
Business software maker SAP has promised its investors it will double its revenue by 2015, thanks to an aggressive strategy focusing on mobile and big data, and the company is constantly pushing towards achieving this goal. Today, SAP announced that it has made some of the key offerings in the Sybase portfolio available to resellers ...
This Week in the Cloud: Every Angle on Storage
In addition to some good (and bad) financial results, there were a lot of cloud updates that snagged the headlines in the past seven days. Cloud storage has been a particularly busy industry this week. Microsoft’s extending efforts on its cloud solutions, particularly for those needing to process big data. Project Daytona is Microsoft’s answer ...
CX.com Raises $5M for Cloud Storage, Acquires Competitor
CX.com, a cloud storage and syncing service similar to Dropbox, Box.com and many others currently on the market, has just made a major step forward. The company received $5 million in capital from Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, raising its total funding to $10 million. CX.com comes with a freemium model and a number of ...
How Juniper Networks Does Innovation
Juniper Networks made it to the number 42 spot on Forbes’ Most Innovative Companies list, and in interview chief executive Kevin Johnson explained what he credits this success to. According to him it boils down to three main aspects, starting with investment in R&D. Johnson highlighted that it is important for his company to not ...
eBay Revenue is Up, Profit’s Down
eBay reported its results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 today. The company has seen a strong revenue increase at $2.8 billion, or 25 percent more than in the same period last year. eBay’s marketplace unit, which includes eBay.com and a number of other sites, has seen revenues rise to $1.66 billion from ...
Google Uses Data to Get Ahead of Malware, Intercepts Browser Attacks
Google has rolled out a new notification for its search engine that will detect whether not a user’s connection is being intercepted. In case a user’s computer is infected with a type of malware that hijacks their search results by routing them to Google’s servers via a proxy, the search engine will display a large ...
Amazon Cuts Deal with CBS and Follows the Lead of Netflix
Amazon is directly competing with Netflix and other content streaming services with Amazon Prime. Today the company took a significant leap forward and signed a non-exclusive agreement with CBS to offer 2,000 episodes of the broadcasting giant’s library to customers of its video streaming service. This means users will be able to access a total ...
VMware Reports Strong Q2 Earnings, Looks to Further Monetize Licenses
VMware had its earnings call today, rounding up the second quarter of fiscal year 2011. The company reported some impressive figures indicating a fair amount of growth- U.S revenues grew 35 percent year-over-year to $450 million, while international revenues grew 38 percent to $471 million. Wall Street estimates averaged only $873 billion. Earnings were 37 ...
Huawei Symantec Launches First All-Flash Array
Huawei Symantec (HS), a joint venture between Chinese storage and networking equipment manufacturer Huawei and software giant Symantec, announced the latest addition to its product portfolio: the OceanSpace Dorado S2100. The all-flash array is probably one of the first ever developed by a SAN and NAS storage array vendor, and aims to offer lower prices ...