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Microsoft Surface Raises a Few Eyebrows After All: HP Dumps RT
Last month Microsoft unveiled Surface, a new tablet that was rumored to launch at E3 earlier in June. Nonetheless the company didn’t lose the element of surprise – Surface is the software vendor’s first entry into the hardware market. One of the main concerns brought up is that the device may not justify the investment ...
Broadcom Pays MIPS $26.5 to Continue Licensing its IP
MIPS, a provider of processor architectures that names Broadcom as its biggest client, had some big news this week when the networking firm announced that it’s extending their multi-year licensing agreement. The relationship between the companies started in 1998, and the deal was made even more lucrative yesterday when word was sent out that Broadcom ...
Cloud’s Economic Scale, Results Too Big to Ignore: Intel Forecast 2012
One of the people who attended last week’s Intel Forecast is Ben Kepes, and the analyst hopped into theCube for twenty minutes to discuss his take on some of the trends that are maturing today (full video below). The first topic was the cloud. Kepes sees the cloud not necessarily as a big innovation from ...
Evolution of Technology, Core Concepts Behind the Cloud: Capgemini Exec Talks Impact
Petteri Uljas is the CEO of Capgemini’s Finland office, which is responsible for the company’s operations in Eastern Europe and India. IT services is one of the many segments that the cloud, and the exec provided his own unique perspective on this matter in an interview with John Furrier at Intel Forecast 2012 (full video ...
“Lost” Steve Jobs Interview Now Available on iTunes
A 70-minute interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dating back to 1995 is now available on iTunes for the first time. Robert Cringley interview Jobs for a for a PBS special titled Triumph of the Nerds, which aired just two years before the visionary’s legendary return to Apple, and only included about 10 minutes of the film. ...
Oracle Ruling Allows Second-Hand License Sales in the EU
Database giant Oracle sued UsedSoft a while back; a German firm that specializes in buying up software licenses from customers that purchased them straight from the source, and then reselling them for a discounted rate. That’s bad for business if you happen to own the rights to that software, but as the recent ruling in ...
Cisco’s Big Linksys Update Not so Great, Customers Say
Last week I wrote about an update that Cisco rolled out to its A2700, EA3500, and EA4500 routers. The main feature that the new firmware introduced was Cisco Connect Cloud, a connected interface with the purpose of simplifying configuration and network management. The vision went beyond that, with the addition of tools that empower developers to ...
Xeround Strengthens Strategy with Plan Changes, More Rackspace Options
Today cloud database software provider Xeround announced an update to all three versions of its offering. The free edition, which comes with a mere 10 megabytes of capacity, one megabyte of throughput and five connections, is now available for Rackspace Cloud users. It’s not much and is only enough to allow any potential customer to ...
Grafetee is the New, Data-driven Foursquare
Rakettitiede is a Finnish startup with less than 10 employees that is pitching a new location-based application called Grafetee. It’s not unlike Foursquare and other similar services, but it focuses on augmenting the user’s ability to share directly rather than just as a part of a social platform. And as it turns out, businesses are ...
Augmented Reality Offers Personalized Shopping Experience from IBM
One of the things that Big Blue is most known for is its consistent readiness to invest in R&D, unlike a few companies like HP that have been neglecting research a bit these last few years. Today, the company announced that it has entered the augmented reality scene with a mobile app that may not be ...