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FCC Begins Review of AT&T-Mobile Deal, Reiterates Motives
AT&T’s planned acquisition of competitor T-Mobile for a whopping $39 billion stirred a lot of buzz lately, and as the story is beginning unfold, it’s also raising some eyebrows in Washington. And now that the government’s formal review of the deal started, AT&T has decided to reiterate its case for why the deal should be ...
Check-Ins Are Hot, But Privacy Issues Cool Things Down
Location-based services are dubbed by some to be the next stage in evolution for mobile and social networking, but some fresh research indicates these claims are not backed by user interest. Web marketing agency White Horse has just released some new stats suggesting just that – according to the company more than 60 percent of ...
Easter Serves a Treat for Online Retailers, but What’s Next?
Easter is predicated to generate $14.6 billion in retail sales, and a online retailers account for a very big chunk of that revenue. More and more people are shopping g online, but apparently, customers are also spending more. According to a new study conducted by the National Retail Federation for BIGresearch, online shoppers will spend ...
Android Market Brings Direct Carrier Billing to Sprint, Exclusive Channel to Sony
In its efforts to compete and takeover iOS, one of Google’s key focuses is its Android Market. In order to surpass Apple in the mobile customer arena, the internet giant needs to make its app marketplace as featured-packed and safe as possible, and news of 2 moves aiming towards that just crossed the wire. An ...
Millennial Media Sees Lots of Growth, Android Leads the Charge
Mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its monthly Mobile Mix report for March 2011, providing an insight to the mobile market as a whole. Notably Android is still on top, but many of its competitors have seen a lot of month-over-month growth. For the 4th month in a row, Android remains the leading OS with ...
More Japanese Quakes Affect the Tech Industry: From Cisco to Panasonic
The ongoing Japanese earthquakes have affected an entire nation, but they affected the global tech industries as well, including some of the biggest players around. Japan is a very big presence in the global IT industry, and now that factories and local outlets throughout the nation have been shut down, companies and customers are beginning ...
Big Data Acquisitions Head to the Social Realm, Proximal Labs the Latest Buy
Today enterprise social networking software developer Jive announced it has acquired Proximal Labs, a privately held big data analytics company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition will be used to take Jive’s offerings portfolio to the next level, and provide customers better service effectiveness with insight. According to a release, it ...
Flip Is Gone, but How Does Cisco’s Fiasco Affect the Industry?
Shortly after Cisco CEO John Chambers released a memo saying that his company has “lost its focus, lacks discipline and needs to overhaul its operations,” Cisco confirmed its plan when it pulled the plug on Flip. The closing of its Flip division, a line of cameras known for their ease of use, involves the dismissal ...
Gluster Adds Supports for 2 New Services, Expands Open Cloud Storage Turf
The open source trend had been picking up a great deal of momentum lately, and for a number of reasons. In addition being cheaper than most alternatives, open source cloud offerings help avoid vendor lock-in, and this space as a whole spurred quite a bit of innovations throughout the past few months. One of the ...
HP’s New Cloud Strategy Begins to Play Out
Hewlett-Packard has been making a series of significant moves to enter the software and cloud computing market, under relatively new CEO Leo Apotheker. The latest is the rumored acquisition of Tibco, an enterprise software vendor with a focus on messaging and enterprise social networking. Tibco would almost certainly bring some growth to HP’s software growth ...
