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Nokia Cuts More Jobs as It Preps for WP7 Launch
Phonemaker Nokia had a huge share of the global mobile market up until 2007, when the iPhone was launched. Now in 2011, the company is experiencing the backlash of its failure to adapt to the market trends in time at its fullest. Nokia nevertheless initiated a recovery process, and layoffs are a part of that. ...
Save Your Code from Patent Infringement with OpenLogic’s New Tool
Open-source software maker OpenLogic announced the latest version of OLEX Enterprise Edition, an offering that aims to give companies more visibility into their code, specifically within open source projects. This is needed in order to make sure such an application doesn’t contain bits of code from vendors that have not authorized the use of their ...
QLogic Overhauls Networking Portfolio
Networking firm QLogic announced a major update today: it refreshed its FlexSuite product line-up and expanded its Adaptive Convergence by throwing in support for 16Gb converged fibre channel and 10Gb Ethernet protocols. Starting with Adaptive Convergence, QLogic promises that (just like the FlexSuite products), customers upgrading their systems to its new technology will be able to ...
SAP’s Drastic Approach to Expand BI Ecosystem
Germany-based business software maker SAP has promised its shareholders that it will double its revenues by 2015 thanks to new cloud, mobile and big data ventures, and the firm is planning to meet that deadline. It unveiled its new “Build and Sell” program this week, which opens up the SAP BusinessObjects product line-up for the ...
VMware Revises Mobile Apps Amidst Virtualization Shift
VMware, EMC’s virtualization subsidiary, is taking virtualization to other fields, such as the mobile enterprise. It unveiled the latest versions of its SlideRocket and Socialcast apps this week, making good on two firms it had acquired as a part of a broader strategy to build a cloud portfolio. VMware cited some figures indicating the magnitude of ...
The Global Future of Crowdsourcing, According to myGengo
Since Wired journalist Jeff Howe coined the term “crowdsourcing” in 2006, an entire industry (led mostly by startups) has been created, and some players are even getting some attention from VCs. The latest is myGengo, a crowdsourced or “human cloud” translation service that employs a network of 3,000 native speakers to process massive amounts of ...
Autodesk Releases Cloud 3D Design Suite
Autodesk, the California-based professional 3D design and engineering software maker, is the latest vendor that has decided to venture into the cloud. It announced Autodesk Cloud today, a web-based version collection of some of the key tools and services it provides. It also comes in a premium edition called Autodesk Subscription. Autodesk Cloud provides customers ...
Public Cloud Firm Joyent Raises $5M in Funding
Joyent, a San Francisco tech firm that offers several cloud products and is sponsoring the Node.js project, raised $5 million in fresh funding according to an SEC filing picked up by TechCrunch. To date the seven year-old company raised $30 million in venture capital, thanks to a line-up of offerings that covers a lot of ground ...
Jaspersoft Brings BI to the iPad with New SDK
Business intelligence firm Jaspersoft launched Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite 4.2, the latest version of its product that comes with one major addition: an open source mobile BI iOS software development kit. The release is the first of its kind in this industry, according to the company. This is a pretty thought-out move considering that both big data and ...
DataDirect Networks Unveils New Software, New Execs
Big data storage solutions DataDirect Networks announced the SFA10K-X array; identical to its existing SFA10000 offering hardware-wise, but equipped with DDN’s new paralleled and multi-threaded version of its SFA OS. The platform is VMware-certified, built to support larger workloads and packs RAID, cache engines and data movers. The array supports GRID Scaler, EXAScaler and NASScale. DataDirect also unveiled a ...