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Intuit’s GoPayment Tops This Week’s Business Tablet Apps
The tablet space is expanding its borders faster by the day, right on in to the workspace, notably because of the growing demand around their mobility, giving tablets a particularly bright outlook. Hardware however is only half of the story, with the second being the app industry. This is why we’ve complied this week’s top ...
Business and Tablets: Introducing GoPayment for iPad
Business and financial management software maker Intuit released the iPad version of GoPayment, its mobile payment processing app. The application allows vendor who would not usually accept credit cards to get paid instantly by doing just that. The fact GoPayment for iPad just hit general availability represents another milestone for Intuit, and another step to ...
Amazon Cloud Down for Maintenance, Foursquare and Reddit Experience Issues
News just crossed the wire that some of Amazon’s AWS services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database service are experiencing some technical difficulties. Details of these difficulties and their cause are scarce, but Amazon is currently “working towards resolution” of the issues, which include API errors, volume latencies and delayed launches ...
AT&T Still Alive and Well: Wireless Growth, Verizon iPhone, T-Mobile
Just like Intel, VMware and China Mobile, AT&T also had its earnings call within the last 24 hours. However, in addition to the financial information the call also provided some insight to a couple of consumer trends, particularly wireless data streaming the Verizon iPhone. AT&T reported an impressive 39 percent in first quarter profit, which ...
New Color Competitor in Town: EventJot
Still a newly launched service, Color is a photo-sharing app that enables users to share media only with contacts located within a given distance from them. While the concept is a very simple one, Color was an extremely high profile launch and is already has a lot of funding, as well as an “all-star” team ...
Mobile Competition Intensifying – In China, Too.
Competition in the mobile space is growing as more and more devices and services debut. This is also true on a global scale, and perhaps China in particular. China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest mobile carrier, reported today that its first-quarter net profit rose 5.4 percent to 26.86 billion yuan or $4.12 billion, which is ...
VMware Sees Real Growth: 33% Year-over-Year
VMware had its earnings call yesterday afternoon and just like EMC, it has also reported remarkable growth. The company’s revenues in Q1, 2011 added up to an impressive $844 million, beating its own and analysts’ exceptions expectations with a 33% year-over-year increase. Deferred, or unearned revenue rose to $2 billion and grew 46% from the ...
Intel Earnings Call Beats Estimates After Low Expectations
Intel’s earnings call was yesterday, and despite of some pessimistic expectations the chipmaker reported blockbuster first quarter profits. Intel reported $3.2 billion, up 29 percent over the same period last year, and revenues also up at $12.8 billion, or about 25 percent than the previous year. We’ve also learned that CEO Paul Otellini put an ...
Data Retention: User Friendly Policies?
Data retention is a very important matter to a lot of online users– either because they’re looking for an ideal experience, or because it’s the very thing they’re looking to avoid as much as possible. Nevertheless, privacy concerns don’t seem to worry Yahoo, who is extending the amount of time it will retain data logs ...
Mobile Video Gets Premium Update, HBO Goes Head-to-Head with Netflix
Video streaming is becoming more significant on the go, as devices are getting stronger and companies are coming up with better offerings. HBO is one of those companies, and we’ve learned that HBO Go, a service allowing users to stream some 1,400 titles over the web, will soon hit the iPhone, iPad and Android. “HBO’s ...