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Dell-Compellent Round Up: Getting Ahead of the Cloud
Enterprise cloud and data storage company Compellent has been stirring a lot of buzz in the past few months, the most recent item is Dell’s $1 billion acquisition, now confirmed. As we covered here, after the computer maker lost the battle over 3Par to HP, it’s now clashing with Hewlett-Packard (again), HP, EMC and IBM ...
Facebook Faces Privacy Issues, This Time in South Korea
Facebook seems to have encountered an array of privacy issues quite consistently lately. This time, South Korean authorities are involved. The South Korea Communications Commission demands that Facebook provide details on how it shares data with 3rd parties, with an emphasis on user information sharing awareness. “On Fan Pages, it seems that a new tweak ...
Infographic: Cloud Computing Growth and Trends
This infographic describes a cloud computing statistics from 2008 to 2013, and it summarizes some very important data. Cloud computing is expected to account for 25% of annual IT spending growth by 2012 and almost a third of all IT spending in 2013, as the way organizations utilize it is also expected to change. IDC ...
Google Releases 2 YouTube Updates, Extends Online Video Expectations
Today two major updates were released for YouTube. The first, announced in YouTube’s blog is an increase of the previous 15-minute user video length limitation. The specific amount of extra time this update adds to fully ‘legit’ users’ videos limitations was not disclosed in the blog post. “Starting today, we’ll begin allowing selected users with ...
Android Still Ahead of the Pack, Amazon and Intel’s Goals for Mobile
According to this PCMag coverage, there are around 300,000 Android Smartphone activations every day, as Google’s vice president of engineering Andy Rubin tweeted yesterday. Rubin was also at the ‘D: Get Into Mobile’ conference where he displayed a Honeycomb tablet for the first time, as well as the Nexus S Smartphone; additional ‘contributers’ to Android’s ...
comScore: Online Holiday Spending on the Rise
According to this latest comScore report, online U.S holiday spending crossed the $17.5 billion mark within just 35 days; a figure 12% higher compared to last year, continuing the last 5 years’ online retail growth trend. “Tuesday, November 30 reached $911 million, making it the third heaviest online spending day on record, with Wednesday ($868 ...
Blink! Facial Recognition fo Windows Log-In
Vista and Windows 7 (32/64 bit) users can now utilize Blink, a facial recognition utility which enables one to log-into their computer using a webcam. Users can still log-in using their passwords, as Blink records password log-ins, reports CyberNet News. “You can login day or night…Grow a beard or mustache, or shave it off. Use ...
Facebook Rolling out Mobile Privacy Controls
Facebook has announced in its blog today it’s rolling out its PC privacy controls to all of the social networking giant’s 200 million mobile users. This update will enable users to more effectively manage view and control the applications using their personal Facebook data. “A full list of all the applications you use, along with ...
Nexage Ads Get Rich with Media Connect
Nexage announced today the official release of Nexage Rich Media Connect or RMC, a mobile ad solution designed to scale mobile reach media and enable its clients to access large volumes of high-yield rich media ads. This is in addition to increasing the throughput and efficiency of ad campaigns while simplifying the overall related process. ...
PostPost and its Identity Crisis, Now on Facebook
TigerLogic just launched a real-time Facebook social newspaper PostPost, which is compiled from links, photos and videos a user’s friends share on the social networking site. PostPost, written in JavaScript and built out of the Facebook Open Graph API, utilizes the Yolink search API and jQuery Masonry plugin to import data from Open Graph and ...
