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Bitcoin Hackathon in Finland Sept 2-4 Seeking Software Engineers
The Bitcoin Hackathon conference will be held in Aalto Venture Garage, Betonimiehenkuja 3, Espoo, Finland on September 2-4. The free 2-day event is the latest evidence of the tech and startup boom the Nordic region has been going through in recent times, especially now in light of Nokia’s massive layoffs and a growing pool of ...
Gluster Powers Biometric Solution Firm’s Open Cloud
Open-source cloud storage platform provider Gluster announced that CIC, a maker of biometric signature verification solutions for the financial industry, has migrated to the cloud using Gluster’s offerings. The platform will run in CIC’s AWS and RightScale environment to maintain the security firm’s SLAs. “Reliability and performance are the major focal points of our IT ...
Nokia’s Decline Spurs Innovation in Finland as Engineers Discover Startups
Finland has seen a boom in the startup scene recently, and the numbers are there to back that up. European tech blog ArcticStartup made some calculations and found that Finland had the highest average venture capital investment per capita last year when compared to the other Nordic nations, standing at $46. Sweden took the second place with ...
Pre-Earnings Recap on Fusion-io
Flash storage solutions provider Fusion-io is having its first earnings call today since it went public in June, making it a good time to recap on how the company has been doing in this timeframe. The most recent development comes from a white paper released by StatSoft, a maker of data analytics and management offerings. ...
Intel Labs’ New Open Cloud Research Centers, Grows Investment
Intel, being the largest player in the semiconductor market by sales, has a lot to gain from the accelerating cloud computing adoption in the enterprise, and the subsequent increased demand for servers powered by its chips. One of the ways the company is looking to gain its an edge is investing in research. Intel Labs ...
EU Antitrust Complaints Against IBM Dropped By 3 Firms
Big Blue’s monopoly in the mainframe market has been subject to some scrutiny from the EU lately, mainly after three smaller firms trying to compete in this market filled antitrust complaints against IBM. TurboHercules , a France-based company that sells the Hercules open-source emulator, clone mainframe maker T3 Technologies and Neon Software, which developed the zPrime workload ...
EMC Rolls Out RSA Security Update, Acquires Stake in Asankya
Storage giant EMC had a couple of updates today, first and foremost an announcement coming from the Black Hat cybersecuirty conference. The company introduced NetWitness Panorama as well as several significant updates to its RSA enVision Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform. The former is the newest threat management and log analysis module to ...
Millennial Media Makes App Store Syncs Easy for Developers
Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network that hasn’t been acquired yet by Apple, Google or a number of other players, is looking to boost their presence in this area. Always making an appeal to mobile developers, Millennial Media announced the latest update to its mmDev developer portal in its blog. Developers now have access ...
Tech Teams with NY State for Green Datacenters
Hewlett-Packard, chipmaker AMD and a number of other companies have teamed up with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (N.Y.S.E.R.D.A) to make datacenter electricity consumption in the state more power and cost effective, thanks to cloud computing. Data centers account for three percent of all power consumption in the state, a figure ...
Social Apps Get Licensing Agreements Too: the New Distribution of Software
Hip Digital Media, a social marketing firm, has entered into a licensing agreement with Appitalism operator Mobile Streams. Appitalism is a marketplace similar to the App Store and Android marketplace that offers over 200,000 apps for both platforms, according to the company. Hip Digital will now resell these applications in the U.S, Canada and U.S. ...