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Social Media, Big Data Supplementing Japanese Infrastructure after Tsunami Hit
After an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit northern Japan today, impacting an area stretching all the way to the East Coast, social media is playing just as big of a role – if not a more significant one – than it did during the Egyptian turbulence. All the major carriers in Japan, including NTT ...
iPad 2 Hits Stores, Motorola Retaliates
The iPad 2 made its debut earlier this month, and now it’s officially available in stores – Apple’s online store, at least. Hitting retail stores in just a few hours at 5 p.m. PT, the tablet ranges from the $499 for the 16 GB,Wi-Fi-only version to $829 for the iPad 2 with 64 GB and ...
Localized Mobile Ads for Mother’s Day, Royal Wedding Top Target Tactics: Report
Top mobile ad network Millennial Media, released its latest SMART Lite report for the month of January, as a part of its newly introduced Millennial Monthly newsletter. The report reveals some interesting statistics about where mobile advertising stands today, shedding light on all the major trends going on in mobile right now. Millennial reports its ...
SXSW Will Get you Tweeting: Umagram and Connect.me
The SXSW 2011 conference is kicking off, and that means lots and lots, and lots and lots (and lots) of parties to attend, people to meet, companies to watch, and parties to attend. One you should definitely check out is the second annual Tech Cocktail event, which will feature more than 30 early stage start-ups ...
The Browser War Takes on Mobile, Mozilla Launches FF4
Opera Software, the developer behind the Opera computer and mobile browsers, is establishing a joint venture company with Chinese mobile phone distributor Telling Telecom. The joint venture will combine Opera’s browser technology with local content, operations and Telling’s distribution network to develop a browser specifically designed for the Chinese market. “Through an investment over three ...
NetApp Buys Engenio for $480M, Shareholders Not Satisfied
NetApp will pay $480 million in an all-cash deal to acquire the external memory division of LSI Corp., Engenio. The deal will close within roughly 60 days, and marks NetApp’s expansion into several new markets it claims will be worth $5 billion by 2014. As Bloomberg reports, “NetApp said the purchase will help it build networks ...
DailyFeats Invigorates Job Seeker with Monster Partnership
Social marketing site DailyFeats had partnered up with online job board Monster. DailyFeats allows users to redeem points they collect for certain personal development feats they accomplish (divided across the body, mind, home and community), choose among roughly 130,000 local rewards and connect with other people who have similar interests. According to the company, this ...
Cloud Phishing Targets Google Docs, HomeAway
The cloud is making life easier for us all, but it’s also making it easier for phishing attacks to take place, according to a recent Commtouch report. Cybercriminals are apparently utilizing cloud-based form services to reduce the amount of ‘work’ they need to handle in context to fake or hijacked online forms. “With this technique, ...
Apotheker Goes after the Software Market, Gets HP’s Soul Back
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker finally brought the news everybody’s been looking to hear: HP is going after the software market. HP’s core business has always been very much focused on hardware, but even though the company is currently the largest PC maker in the world, its growth rate has been steadily declining. More and more competition ...
HTML5 Broods Browser Wars as IE9 Launch Looms
The browser war rages on. In light of recent HTML5 developments and growing adoption of mobile browsing, almost all major browsers (except Firefox) released a big update in roughly the same timeframe. The first one to highlight is Microsoft – All Things Digital reports Microsoft announced it will officially launch IE9 at an Austin event ...