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Google Apps Accepted at NYU, High Marks for the Cloud
As gleefully posted here by Google, New York University had announced today a transition from its in-house servers to Google Apps, now responsible for providing 18 schools and 60,000 people more effective e-mail and collaboration tools than the ones utilized before. Following an initiative by NY State to introduce G-Apps to K-12 schools, this takeover ...
Google A Monopoly? Just Look at Everyone Else
As this infographic describes fairly well, Google is no longer limited to “just” searching the web, as the internet giant is now racing all the way back to the past and the possible verge of monopoly. This engaging topic has been the ‘it’ thing for a multitude of bloggers all throughout the blogosphere, as it’s ...
Oracle Investing in Mellanox, Anchors Partnership
Oracle has announced that it has invested in servers and storage systems end-to-end connectivity solutions provider Mellanox, acquiring %10.2 of the company’s ordinarily shares. This step, clearly and undeniably aimed to further strengthen the two’s partnership is seemingly a positive one, as Mellanox’s InfiniBand is a, if not the switch fabric leader for enterprise and ...
Largest Intel Plant Gives Enterprises Reason to Visit Vietnam
Intel’s products are available in right around %85 of the PCs manufactured every day, and with that number hitting and exceeding the 1 million units landmark, more firepower is required. This is exactly why Intel invested no less than $1 billion in an assembly and testing plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The plant, ...
Spotify Saga Dismissed, We’re Still Hopefull in the US
Less than 12 hours after an e-mail containing info regarding acquisition-related talks between Apple and U.K music streaming service provider Spotify hit the inbox of several important tech bloggers, the company uncharacteristically dismissed these rumors directly. As also covered here by blogger Louis Gray, the clear and hard-hitting response by the iTunes competitor’s spokesman Jim ...
Sprint’s Mobile Wallet, One Step Closer to Carrier Banks
In the slippery slope down the possible disappearance of cash, cellular carriers are also taking aim at the prospected revenue from this widening trend, including Sprint. As CEO Dan Hesse announced last night, Sprint Nextel users will be able to link various mainstream payment methods to mobile purchasing app called the ‘Sprint Mobile Wallet’ as ...
Developers Wish for FroYo Unity, as Google Preps the Next Version
As ShowNearny developer Jose D. Nidhin says, there is apparently no platform unity between the now somewhat fragmented Android and the upcoming Chrome OS that’s expected to premier later this year; both in terms of app developing and market. While a developer would use Java, C and C++ for an Android app, it is reported ...
FTC Closes Street View Investigation against Google
Google has faced 7 class-action lawsuits as well as a high-rank FTC interrogation in the U.S over its suspiciously accidental snooping into open Wi-Fi networks. Today however, alongside several improvements Google has began to implement internally and a promise to remove all illicit data announced, the agency stopped its interrogation, as reported David Vladeck – ...
Social Network Privacy Issues Raise Concerns All the Way to D.C
After numerous waves of social-networks privacy issues, decision makers in Washington also began to raise an eyebrow or two concerning the hundreds of millions of individuals-numbering internet giants. Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee Sen. Jay Rockefeller sent an inquiring letter to Mark Zuckerberg and MySpace president Michael Jones. “The senator said he aimed to ...
Facebook’s Retail Takeover: Credits at Walmart, Best Buy
Facebook is rolling out an extended distribution of the now 9 months old Facebook credits online exchange, making prepaid Facebook credits gift cards available in Walmart and Best Buy branches within the U.S. Available in $ 5, 10, 25 and 50 worth gift cards, the now real-life Facebook credits are making their way throughout retail ...
