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Fresh from InterOp 2012: Google SPDY, Huawei Launch
Inter Op 2012 has barely started but already new products and announcements are being released at the Las Vegas gathering. A few managed to beat the flood, sending out their releases ahead of everyone else. The first item comes from F5 Networks. The vendor upgraded the Application Delivery Optimization functionality of its BIG-IP ADC with ...
Will Motorola Win a $4 Billion Annual Stake in Microsoft?
Google is facing a fair share of legal trouble, a big portion coming from the Oracle case that’s been heating up recently. Microsoft in turn is being pursued by Motorola over alleged patent infringement, the Android OEM the search acquired last year for a sum well exceeding $10 billion. Ironically one of the reasons cited ...
Oracle vs Google is Much Bigger than Android APIs
Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010, is waging patent warfare against Google. The claim is that Android illegally makes (and now apparently no longer does) use of several Java patents, and because of that Oracle deserves a stake of the widely-used and equally profitable mobile platform. Initially it was about the billions of dollars in ...
Best iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Mobile Workers: Enhanced Email Tops the List
This week’s featured app is Enhanced Email for Android. The email client doesn’t re-invent the wheel but the developer did nail a lot of things, simply by addressing a ton of user demands. That includes things like support for both Gmail and Exchange, as well as integration with several cloud services such as Zimbra, and ...
This Week in Big Data: Acquisitions, Jive and Jaspersoft
This week we’ve seen a couple of major IT vendors dive further into big data, along with updates from two providers that managed to introduce analytics to the cloud, and vice versa. IBM acquired Tealeaf, which makes solutions for consumer-facing retailers that need to spot consumer trends in time to keep their merchandising efforts on ...
This Week in Cloud: DEV Highlights
As usual this week had a bounty of updates from the cloud, and a big portion of those were news from development and engineering tools makers. ActiveState rolled out version 1.2 of Stackato, its fast-growing PaaS that follows the mantra of supporting as many languages as possible. In addition to the enhanced filesystem functions, admin ...
QLogic Profit Rises, Revenue Declines in Q4
Networking equipment maker QLogic reported mixed results for its fourth quarter, beating analysts’ estimates with its profit but in light of increased spending and lowered sales to top it off. QLogic earned GAAP income of $29.5 million or 29 cents per share, four cents above the Zacks Consensus Estimate, on revenue of $166.2 million. The ...
Facebook IPO Buzz Spurs Investor Enthusiasm Across Verticals
Here’s a hefty number for ya: $96 billion. That’s the valuation amount Facebook, the massive social network with a user base of over 900 million, is hoping to reach after its May 18 initial public offering. “The filing starts the clock for Facebook’s executives to persuade investors ahead of a scheduled May 18 initial public ...
YouSendIt Hits the 30M User Mark, Reaches other Milestones in Q1
YouSendIt has been doing remarkably well in the past 12 months, according to some new data that the company released about its growth and other achievements in the first quarter of fiscal 2012. YouSendIt didn’t disclose revenue or profit, but it’s safe to assume that it has improved quite a bit in at least one ...
Cisco Gets Deeper into Data Analytics with Truviso Buy
Networking solutions maker Cisco announced that it will be acquiring a firm called Truviso for a sum that has not be disclosed; the deal is expected to finalize sometime in the fourth quarter. The Foster City-based Truviso makes analytics and reporting software specifically for networking environments, with the objective of optimizing resource utilization by identifying ...