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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
VMworld 2012 Recap: It’s all about vSphere, Octopus and the Partners
VMworld is one of the biggest trade shows in IT, and this year’s conference didn’t disappoint. The company unveiled several new products, including the latest release of vSphere and the debut of Project Octopus, the still-in-development cloud locker project that VMware has …
The 7 Hour OpenStack Foundation Meeting: New Leadership Team and Not Much Else
Members of the OpenStack Foundation, the independent organization that Rackspace created to take responsibility for the open-source cloud OS, have met for the first time this week. The seven-hour long meeting gave the attending executives the opportunity to sort out a lot …
Lenovo Can’t Get Enough of HP and Dell’s Market Share
Lenovo has made some tremendous gains over the past few years. The Chinese hardware giant is the third biggest player in the worldwide consumer market, and is the largest manufacturer of notebooks on the planet. These light-weight, affordable laptops add up to …