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TOTAL for iPad Tops Weekly Business Tablet App List
Tablets and app developers have found their way into a variety of industries that make use of the advantages that come with mobile and remote functionality. One of those segments is real-estate, where the iPad in particular has made itself a reputation thanks to a number of apps. This week’s roundup features one of those ...
Hadoop’s Ecosystem Transformation: Making Waves in 2011
Hadoop has come a long way this year. At first Cloudera had something that resembled a by-default monopoly as one of the only high profile providers of commercial Hadoop distribution, but now MapR, Hortonworks and others are looking to change that. The rest of the ecosystem changed as well, with the introduction of new code ...
IBM Dives into the Analytics Space with 2011 Milestones
This is the follow-up post to the yearly roundup of IBM’s biggest developments in 2011, looking into the company’s drastic expansion of its analytics portfolio in the past 12 months. SiliconANGLE has been covering the particularly notable advancements in big data the Big Blue made all throughout the year. Picking up from where we left ...
It’s A Holiday for Amazon, Samsung with High Sales Numbers
Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Samsung’s Galaxy Note evidently gained a lot of popularity during the holiday season. The online retailer sold over 1 million Kindle units per week for the past four weeks. The new Kindle Fire accounted for the bulk of the device sold, followed by the Kindle Touch and the original Kindle. Amazon ...
A Year in Cloud: From Analytics to iCloud
The past year has been a significant one for the cloud industry. Both enterprises and consumers have realized the potential of the technology, and vendors across both sectors have done their best to push as much innovation and marketing into this concept as possible. SiliconANGLE picked the top five cloud stories from this year and ...
A Green, Mobile Year for IBM’s Cloud
It’s safe to say that 2011 was a milestone year for Big Blue. The company churned out some significant advancements during the pas 12 months, and managed to make gains in a number of areas. One of them was the appointment of a new head, choosing of Virginia Romett as the successor of previous CEO Sam ...
SAP Skirts Antritrust Issues with Success Factors, Bright Year Ahead
SAP has come a long way in the past year, expanding into new rapidly growing areas in hopes of boosting revenue. The software maker has been modernizing its portfolio to address current trends among enterprise customers, and M&A played a key role in this strategy. This month the company announced one of its most significant ...
Facebook Affiliate Marketing Scams Top the 2011 Malware Chart
New analysis by security firm Commtouch has identified scams related to affiliate marketing as the most wide-spread type of fraud on Facebook, accounting for two thirds of this sort of malicious activity carried out across the social network. Scammers exploit regular businesses that finance affiliate marketing campaigns by tricking Facebook users into filling out paid ...
OpenLogic PaaS Now Deploys on Rackspace Cloud
OpenLogic said today that its open-source PaaS offering can now be deployed by Rackspace Cloud users. CloudSwing is also becoming available via the Rackspace Cloud Tools catalog. CloudSwing’s big attraction is that users can fully customize the various technology stacks while leveraging OpenLogic’s support for over 600 open source packs, as well as the platform’s ...
LCD Makers Settle Another Antitrust Lawsuit Amidst Industry Woes
Seven different LCD manufacturers have been ordered to split a $553 million bill as part of an antitrust settlement, in addition to having to set up appropriate programs in order to avoid repeating a similar scenario in the future. This is the second settlement of its kind in December, concerning the indirect customers that have ...