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Cisco Declares First Dividend, Addresses Japan and Gets Nostalgic
We’ve had a couple of Cisco updates, as well as an interesting look into its history – which doesn’t seem to fit into the drastic fall its shares experienced in the past year or so. This 35 percent drop is the motive which drove the (still) no. 1 networking giant to announce its first cash ...
Another Fundraiser Emerges to Aid Japan: AudioDraft
The Japanese disaster had rightfully gotten a great deal of attention across the web, and many individuals and companies decided to get involved, lending a helping hand through direct donations. The latest one is AudioDraft, a music crowdsourcing platform. Originally launched as an academic project at Finland’s Aalto University, and founded as a company only ...
AT&T Out to Save Obama’s Broadband Hopes with T-Mobile Buy
AT&T is buying T-Mobile USA, according to an announcement released late on Sunday. This merger, if approved by the Federal Communications Commission, will bring the no. 2 and no. 4 operators in the U.S to form the largest operator, racing past Verizon with a customer base of 130 million. The $39 billion deal, which will ...
EMC Security Division Hacked. Where’s That Leave the Private Cloud?
EMC’s security division, RSA got hacked. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the company, the introducers managed to get pass through “a popular and widely used anti-hacking technology” and actually extract certain data from RSA’s systems. The breach was limited, but there is still a very risk RSA customers including major banks ...
Cloud.com Pushes Open-Source with CloudStack 2.2 and Upcoming Event
Jumping straight into business, Cloud.com recently released the latest version of its open source multi-tenant IaaS platform, CloudStack 2.2, which features over 100 new features. Among these is hypervisor support for VMware vSphere and CloudBridge, which enables the integration of CloudStack-based applications with other clouds including EC2, Scalable Storage Cloud (S3) and OpenStack APIs. It ...
Cloud Round-up: New Products, More Scale
This week has brought with it quite a bit of updates from every corner of the cloud, including a few new products. For example, Couchbase launched its first product a couple days ago. Couchbase is a NoSQL company formed after the merger of CouchOne and Membase, who launched Couchbase Server earlier this week. The Couchbase Server ...
iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: the Best of the Week
This week’s tablet business apps round-up comes with an impressive list of business-oriented apps, both for the iPad and Android tablets. As tablets gain more and more traction among consumers, the technology also gains momentum in the (virtual) office, and the following apps demonstrate just how big this segment has become. Android WaveSecure for Tablet ...
The Daily Deal Affect: Can Groupon Sustain the Pressure Bubble?
Daily deal behemoth Groupon may be valued between $15BN and $25 in an initial public offering, but the downside of this inflated figure is felt across the entire tech scene, as more bubble talk is spurred, and hyperlocal marketing trends continue to build out Groupon’s own ecosystem, which is flush with big data and readily ...
The New York Times Hits Paywall, and iTunes
The New York Times is introducing digital subscriptions to the mix, seeking new-age distribution methods for its age-old publication. The newspaper also hopped aboard Steve Jobs’ iTunes subscription plan as its first major partner, which will cost 30 percent of its revenues through the platform. But we’ll get to that later. The Times’ 3 digital ...
Android Beats Apple in Speed (and Distribution)
A fresh study by web optimization company Blaze suggests that mobile browsing on Android is faster than on iOS devices – much faster, in fact, when it comes to loading web page. Blaze analyzed 45,000 page load times of Fortune 1000 companies’ websites by loading them multipale times throughout different days using mainly WiFi, and ...