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Mobile Video is Surging with Libox, Thwapr and the U.S. Congress
The mobile video space is a surging one, and everybody seems to be interested in jumping on this growing in value bandwagon. That includes Libox, a free media sharing service that announced a major update to its iPhone app. The app now eliminates the need for video recipients to download LIBOX’s desktop version only the ...
IBM Gets Mobile Security with 3 New Initiatives
IBM today announced 3 new initiatives targeting enterprise and large-scale mobile and instrumented device security. The devices in turn range from Smartphones and tablets to ATMs, retail kiosks, traffic systems, meters and buildings, and the press release cited IDC’s predictions of one trillion connected devices and a $10 billion endpoint security market value by 2015/4. ...
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 ...