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Broadcom and Qualcomm Commit to HomePlug
Broadcom and Atheros, Qualcomm’s networking division, published a joint release announcing the two companies’ support for the HomePlug electronics power line standard family. This willingness encompasses the newly sanctioned HomePlug AV2 as well, which has been given the credit for being the foundation of the IEEE 1905.1 draft standard. Dan Marotta, the head of the ...
ScaleXtreme Updates DB Automation Tool
ScaleXtreme added some UI enhancements to both versions of its cloud-based deployment management platform: the free ScaleXtreme Xpress and the full ScaleXtreme Expert subscription service. The automation solution was revealed in August last year, a launch that we covered at the time. “The first major change is a radically streamlined path to create new servers ...
Dell’s Cash Heavy and Ready to Spend: Storage, Networking Could be Key
Michael Dell said during a keynote in Bangalore, India that his company will be searching for potential acquisition targets among small to medium sized companies that may be able to strengthen its portfolio. The electronics giant is making use of “strong cash flows” to invest in the longer-run, despite the Thailand floodings that led to ...
DataStax Reviews Company, Cassandra Through 2011
DataStax, a commercial distributor of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is reflecting on the past year. The company reached several milestones in the past year, as did Cassandra, and there are high hopes surrounding both as we enter 2012. DataStax passed the 100 clients landmark last year, in addition to raising a second round of ...
VMware’s Serious about Mobile Enterprise, Unveils Horizon Mobile
VMware is beefing up its virtualization initiatives, a growing number of which include offerings that cater to the end user within the enterprise, rather than organization-wide virtualization solutions alone. Mobile has been one of the focuses for the company lately, a trend that is quite steadily growing in the enterprise space. VMware was actually one ...
Marvell Goes Big at CES: SATA Controller, Charitable Mobility
Hardware maker Marvell is one of the companies that have already made several announcements at CES 2012. One of the new products is the Marvell 88SE9230 6Gb/s SATA controller. The product is designed to power consumer electronics, and the sales pitch focuses on a big performance boost at a lowered price. The 88SE9230 leverages the HyperDuo ...
Open Mobile Ecosystems Will Win in 2012: RUWT?! Predictions
Many companies have released their own set of predictions for 2012, and so have just as many pundits. SiliconANGLE’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Hopkins interviewed several this past week, and discussed the near term future of the mobile industry and consumer platforms. Mark Phillip of AreYouWatchingThis!?, a sports broadcasting service, talked a great deal about these two ...
HP webOS Holds Promise for 2012: Techno Buffalo’s Mobile Predictions
Sean Aune, the editor-in-chief of TechnoBuffalo, talked with Mark Hopkins about some of the more notable current and future trends in the mobile industry (see full interview below). As Mark highlighted about half way into the interview, the mobile industry is a completely different animal than other consumer electronics markets, such as the PC industry ...
WriteRoom Tops This Week’s iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps
This week’s featured app is WriteRoom. The app offers a minimalistic interface with plenty of functionality, and does its job well. It provides a distraction-free zone for the user to write down his or her thoughts on paper on-the-go, and is handy for both the creative types, and the users that need a reliable note-taking ...
This Week in Cloud: Microsoft Platforms, Services Prevail
The past week featured a handful of notable cloud news items, with the first one coming from Microsoft’s direction. The software maker has been gradually pushing into mobility and the cloud with Windows Phone 7 and Office 360. Now it’s fleshing out Azure, its PaaS. With the newest upgrade the platform will be getting is ...