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Scaling the Cloud: Clustrix Takes on Strata
CDS maker Clustrix is with us at the O’Reilly Strata Conference today, where it will be demonstrating its ultra-scalable Clustrix Series 4000 appliances. The company earlier announced its accelerating global growth, and this time it’s providing an example of just how cloud scalability helps businesses to manage their rapidly increasing data. Clustrix is a company ...
Egypt Internet Connection Restored. What Lies Ahead for Egypt?
It’s been a rough couple of weeks in Egypt politics, with a nation at unrest, a world wondering at their government’s shut-off communication tactics, and a revolution that’s clearly under way. We’ve been covering the story from early on, particularly from the web access perspective, discussing the ramifications of an entire people looking for ways ...
Quepasa Acquires XtFt Games, Takes Social Games to Latin America
Quepasa Corporation (Quepasa.com), which operates the largest Latino social networks is expanding its reach to Latin America with the acquisition of XtFt Games, owner of Brazilian social game development studio TechFront. XtFt will be acquired for $3.7 million in Quepasa common stocks. “The agreement to acquire XtFt follows Quepasa’s recently announced partnership with eGames to ...
Springpad Breaks Record, Adds new Features
Smart note-taking app Springpad boasted a record-breaking January with more than 250,000 new subscribers. Following this surge in activity, Springpad CEO Jeff Janer announced some updates to the cross-platform app, specifically to the web-based version and Chrome extension. ” In response to user requests and to support this record number of new users, Springpad today ...
Galaxy Tab Returns Indicative of Immature Android Tablet Market?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab reported pretty strong sales figures and the same is with other Android tablets gradually catching up with the iPad, but return rates are an entirely different thing. According to All Things D, ITG Investment Research tracked POS data from roughly 6,000 wireless stores in the U.S., and reports a 13 percent ...
Cloud Case Study: Helping the Community, Diversifying the Economy
IBM released a report of how the Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada region’s use of its offerings to help its 393,000 citizens community by creating jobs, building homes for the homeless, and even treating asthma. IBM Software Services for Lotus, WebSphere Portal, lBM Lotus Web Content Management software, and IBM Lotus Quickr are some of the offerings utilized ...
Surging Auto Industry Means Big Chips for Infineon
German chipmaker Infineon raised its full-year financial forecast after net-profits surged due to a lot of demand from the automotive and industrial sectors. The company expects growth figures to hit the mid-teens percentage range, compared to previous estimates of 10%. “The raised sales forecast is fueled by stronger demand from its automotive and industrials and ...
AT&T Taken to Court over “Rigged Gas Pump” Data Billing
Another public relations debacle for AT&T has emerged this week, with pricing at the core of the wireless service provider’s latest issues. Alameda County, Calif. -based Patrick Hendricks subscribed to AT&T’s $15/200MB/month limited data plan for the iPhone, but after several alleged overcharges for regular and phantom usage, Hendricks sued the company. The lawsuit seeks ...
EMC Launches Open-Source Greenplum Community Edition
Today EMC announced it launched an open source community edition of the Greenplum data warehousing software, as well as of other tools and algorithms. This move is aimed to grow Greenpulm’s developer base in order to move it further towards default status in data warehousing. EMC is not the only one competing to stay relevant ...
LinkedIn Updates Ad Options, Facebook Sees Low CTR
LinkedIn recently launched LinkedIn Ads, fresh out of beta and with the addition of specific targeting options for network marketing. The previous advertising options only included limited demographic targeting, like gender, location, industry and various other general categories, whereas the new LinkedIn Ads now also supports targeting around job title, company name and LinkedIn Group-based ...