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Android’s Big and So are Local Deals, Study Shows
JiWire just released its Mobile Audience Insights Report for Q1, and found that Android, tablets and location-based deals are among the top trends in this market. According to the WiFi marketing company, 79 percent of the on-the-go audience is comfortable making purchases on their mobile devices. Making small purchases is widespread, while 50 percent of ...
Xiotech’s Hybrid Cloud is a Crowd Pleaser
Xiotech’s recently introduced Hybrid ISE offering was selected as selected as “Breakthrough Product of the Year,” also receiving the “Attendee’s Pick” award at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011. There were a total of 46 finalists at the conference, and Hybrid ISE was named the best product for the entire show. “As Steve Sicola, Xiotech’s CTO simply put ...
Millennial Media Preps for an IPO after Several Recent Milestones
Millennial Media has seen tremendous growth in the past few months, and it’s getting closer and closer to going public. The large, independent mobile ad network is reportedly in talks with banks. According to one of to two people cited with knowledge of the discussion, Millennia’s public offering is set for later this year or ...
Sony Revenues Decline as PSN Breach, Tsunami Stack Up
Ahead of its official earnings call, Japanese electronics giant Sony changed its estimate of the net loss for its fiscal year ending March 2011 to $3.2 billion, reversing its earlier projection of a return to profit. The company attributed the loss largely to writing off 360 billion yen ($4.4 billion) related to a tax credit, though ...
Top iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Business Users
The tablet space is heating up as manufacturers and platform makers are becoming more and more competitive with their offerings. As a consequence, the market is evolving, and tablets are gradually invading the office – not to mention the apps. So this week we’ve looked into and rounded up five of some of the most ...
The Past Week in the Cloud: SAPphire 2011, Partnerships and Privacy
This past in the cloud featured some very significant updates, and one of the main highlights was the SAP SAPphire 2011 conference. The conference’s focus was mainly on the cloud and big data, and a lot of the companies who attended took the opportunity to announce their new developments and quite notably, partnerships. Among these ...
Fujitsu, Microsoft for the Private Cloud
The SAP SAPphire 2011 week has been rich in partnerships focused on developing integrated cloud offerings, and now Fujitsu and Microsoft (yet again) made it to the list. The two companies have introduced the preconfigured Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, which basically offers customers a pre-integrated, immediately-deployable offering. This is the same approach NetApp ...
Virtustream, VMware Partner on SAP Apps
Cloud platform developer Virtustream unveiled a fresh partnership with virtualization giant VMware, meant to introduce a new and optimized integrated offering. SAP customers can apply to this new pilot program offered by Virtustream, which is free for the first 90 days. These selected customers will be able to run SAP applications in Virtustream’s cloud platform, ...
Fusion-io Integrates ioMemory into Dell Storage Offering
Fusion-io announced that it has entered an agreement with Dell to integrate its ioMemory technology with the latter’s In-Memory solutions. Dell, who will now resell Fusion-io technology, is purposing the integrated product for large scale, near real-time analytics. “Providing the power to analyze business operations based on large volumes of detailed information, the Fusion Powered ...
GigaSpaces Boosts Global Expansion in Eastern Europe
Gigaspaces, an emerging developer of cloud scaling platforms, is making partners in an effort to expand its market share. This part of its strategy is a very significant one, its most recent partner being the Poland-based Comarch. The latter offers system integration services, and announced it will leverage GigaSpaces’ flagship eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) offering ...