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E3 Expo: Microsoft, Sony at the Spotlights
The biggest week in gaming kicked off today, with the start of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. E3 will feature hundreds of game title launches and previews, not to mention other things. And, Sony and Microsoft will most likely take the spotlight (again,) and from more aspects than one. The gaming industry has seen a great ...
New Business Tablet Apps for iPad, Android
With the enterprise consumerization trend rapidly expanding, tablets are becoming a bigger and bigger aspect of this phenomenon. Naturally, the same goes for apps, and this week we’ve gathered the top five iPad and Android tablet business apps you need to have on your device. iPad OmiGraffle While quite pricey at $49.99. OmiGraffle is one ...
Cloud Roundup: Personal Cloud, NYSE and Cloud Centers
This past week in the cloud brought us a broad spectrum of developments from just about every corner of the cloud. The first highlight comes from Apple’s upcoming iCloud, a music service similar to that of Amazon’s Cloud Drive. The difference between the two, though, is that Apple seems to have the upper hand in ...
WWDC 2011: Past, Present and What to Expect
Apple is holding the annual 2011 World Wide Developers Conference, and rumors are circling about the new products and expectations we may have for the launch event. Before we delve into that though, we can recap on some Apple’s most significant announcements this past year. The first one from early 2011 is probably the one ...
VMware Tries to Catch up with Citrix in VDI
Citrix Systems has managed to position itself quite well in the VDI market to date, gaining a sizable customer base while doing so. VMware is taking a shot at Citrix’s market share, though that may prove to be difficult. In the past few months, VMware has made a number of acquisitions to support its VDI ...
Citrix Founder Secures $8.5 for Upcoming “Content Virtualization” Platform
Boca-Raton, Fla.-based startup VirtualWorks Group, led by Citrix Systems founder Ed Iacobucci, announced that it has raised $8.5 million in a first round of funding from Florida’s New World Angels. Skyway Capital Partners LLC served as financial advisor to VirtualWorks. The capital will be used to help “execute on the company’s vision and strategy,” which ...
Infographic: The Transformation of HP
Hewlett-Packard is going through a hardware-to-software transformation under head Leo Apotheker, who has been serving as chief executive for less than a year. The company needs to tackle a number of factors if it wants to be successful with its massive venture, including the need to further grow and develop its capitalization of the software ...
Cisco’s Restructuring Involves Global & Financial Expansion, and Grilled Cheese
Cisco has not been doing too well in the last four quarters, and now that its stock slid by over 30 percent, CEO John Chambers is making some changes. In addition to eliminating the slow council-based management mechanism it once used, Cisco is also reshaping its outbound strategy. The company is now focusing more on ...
HP Takes Software Angle to New Heights: webOS Everywhere
Leo Apotheker, CEO of Hewlett-Packard for less than a year now, spoke at the D9 conference. He discussed many things, including webOS, and some of his company’s plans in the consumer and non-consumer markets. Right at the start of his interview with AllThingD’s Walt Mossberg, Apotheker said that HP is looking to “position itself at ...
Permabit Adds 4 New Patents to Existing Portfolio
OEM embedded data storage company Permabit announced on the company blog that it has been awarded four new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office, adding up to a patent portfolio size of 23 in data deduplication, protection and archiving as well cloud storage. “We have invested heavily in research and development over the ...