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OkCupid Makes Big Data Sexy for Consumers’ Sake
Free dating site OkCupid has been rolling out some interesting newsletters on its user behavior the past few months. This month’s discussed the best questions to ask on a first date. The recently acquired website is turning data it gathered from its users, notably a database of at least 275,294 ‘match questions’ and roughly 776 ...
IBM’s Supercomputer is Busy. Being Super.
The U.S. Department of Energy has reached an agreement with IBM to bring Mira to the Illinois-based Argonne National Lab. The facility currently utilizes Intrepid, a 557 teraflop supercomputer ranked the third most powerful system of its kind in 2008. Mira, in turn, is an IBM Blue Gene Q 10-petaflop supercomputer scheduled to become operational ...
LG Sues Sony for Patent Infringement, Readies for Mobile Market Beatdown
After Sony filed a lawsuit against LG in December last year, the South Korean electronics t LG filed two patent lawsuits against its Japanese competitor with a southern California court. The company also announced it has filed a patent-infringement complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission. Sony’s lawsuit claims LG shipped phones and modems that ...
Gluster Takes on AWS and VMware, Public Cloud Preps for Connector
Today we’ve seen two major cloud updates, with open-source storage platform Gluster taking the spotlight. Today the company announced Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services, hitting general availability as of Feb. 15. The VMwareVirtual Storage Appliance brings GlusterFS into a VMware virtual machine that can run on any VMware-compatible server platform. ...
ShoutEm Launches No-Coding App Builder into Beta
Mobile company ShoutEm was launched back in ‘08 as a white label mobile social networking service which enabled customers to develop custom mobile communities. Growing beyond the 20,000 community mark, ShoutEm has announced it has “evolved”, and launched a new app builder into beta. The service reportedly enables app development without the need for coding ...
HTC Pushes Forward with Invests in Mobile Content Delivery, Gaming
HTC announced two mobile investments as a part of a push to further anchor its turf in the mobile market. The first is the acquisition of multimedia delivery platform Saffron Digital for $48.6 million, and plans to buy a $40 stake of cloud gaming company OnLive. “Citing an HTC spokeswoman, the newspaper [WSJ] said that ...
Android Flexes its Muscles, Driving Industry Hope in 2011
Android is driving development and growth for every aspect of the mobile industry. The IDC reports some statistics about its 2010 growth, backed by exploding AT&T interest in the platform, and a ground-breaking new duel-screen device by Sprint introduced later today. “The biggest waves, though, were created by Google’s Android as vendors Samsung and HTC ...
Can Yahoo Regain its Portal Effect with Personalized Mobile?
Yahoo is working on an initiative designed to improve its mobile presence, and help applications personalize user content based on recorded activity and statistics. Not much was disclosed about Yahoo!’s attempt to recapture a part of its formerly dominant share of the market, but it may be unveiled at the mobile World Congress in event ...
VMware Introduces VMware Zimbra 7 Amidst Executive Shake-up
Virtualization giant VMware announced VMware Zimbra 7, the latest version of its cloud email and collaboration platform. This announcement comes amidst some executive turbulence the company is going through regarding its President and other executives, but Zimbra’s shiny new features are helping to soften the blow. The platform is available starting today, and comes with ...
Last.fm Will Make Mobile Users Pay
After continuously and gradually losing ground and (millions of dollars) to competitors, the once completely free Last.fm’s music streaming apps will now become paid ones (unless your a WP7 user). Last.fm claims it’s the world’s largest free music catalog, and as of next Tuesday, users who will want to stream music via the service to ...