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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 ...
Violin Memory Gets Stuffed with Cash, Juniper Networks Invests in $35M Round
Cloud scaling company Violin Memory announced it has raised $35 in Series B funding from multiple investors, including new investor Juniper Networks and Toshiba America Electronic Components. A single Violin 3140 is said to support 40TB worth of Flash storage and 10K Flash devices. “Violin Memory is a true performance leader in high-end silicon storage,” said ...
Windows Phone 7 Mobile Apps Get Love Too
Digital marketplaces are cropping up all over the place, especially in the mobile sector. An infographic by WP AppHab details the status of Windows Phone 7 from the app angle; all 8000+ of them. Paid apps have the largest share of the total figure at 725, while only 28% of all WP7 apps are free ...
Clouds Develop Over Open Territory: This Week’s Trends
SiliconANGLE is there at the Strata Conference and conducting interviews with all the biggest names attending, but the cloud has been active from other angels as well. The open cloud takes a very big chunk of our list, with Rackspace’s announcement of their latest OpenStack code release, Bexar, kicking things off. Bexar brings IPv6, Hyper-V, ...
Strata Conference Recap: Day 3 Keynotes
The O’Reilly Strata Conference has given us insight into the world of big data, how it’s being used and what the future holds for this specific aspect of cloud management. We’ve been covering the conference extensively, highlighting keynotes and panels, as well as holding a number of interviews at our CUBE. Yesterday featured several speakers ...
Social Media and the Cloud Changing Corporate Culture
Social media can be a sticky subject for corporations, especially large and ominous ones that have been around since the age of the dinosaurs (that counts as anything dating back to pre-FDR days, by the way). But social media has become an inexplicably intricate part of our daily lives, touching every aspect of our regular ...
Cisco to Acquire Inlet Technologies for $95M
WSJ reports that Cisco has made plans to acquire video solutions provider Inlet Technologies for $95 million to strengthen its video streaming offerings. Cisco is sitting on a huge stockpile of teleconferencing and home networking resources. This being a major segment for them to focus on, and the acquisition is aimed to further develop and ...