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Akamai Thinks IPv6, Stock Down 22%
We received an e-mail today shedding some light about Akamai’s intentions around the IPv6 switch, which takes place in June. After 40 years and 2 billion internet users, we’ve run through the 40 billion IPv4 addresses, and now the whole web is getting ready for the switch to IPv6 and 3.4 × 1038 new addresses ...
Social Media Revival Gains Some New Executive Leadership
A couple of notable social media companies appointed new execs this week, marking some important developments as several industry companies fine tune their product and leadership lineup – women’s social shopping site ThisNext and Ashton Kutcher’s social marketing firm Katalyst. ThisNext announced MySpace CEO Mike Jones joined its board of directors. “Over the past year, ...
JoliCloud Changes Name, and Approach
JoliCloud OS, the cloud based operating system which came way before Chrome OS, is getting an update and a new name. Version 1.2 is due to release later this week, and will be known as Joli OS. It will bring with it a number of new features, as well as enhanced cross-platform support. Starting out ...
Animoto Upgrades, YouTube Expands, and Thomson Reuters Joins the Club
Video slideshow software maker Animoto recently rolled out a few significant tweaks to its service, including HD support and faster video rendering. “This new engine will allow your video to render at much faster speeds and higher qualities. Not only will you be able to combine your photos and movie clips into a 720p HD ...
Cisco Expands to India, Taps Enormous Market
The Wall Street Journal reports networking behemoth Cisco and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., a part of the $7.1 billion Mahindra group, signed a global partnership agreement to offer virtual dealerships and cloud computing services in smart cities, and sports and entertainment. “We are looking to cater to a global market size of $5 billion… we expect ...
Qualcomm Investors Confused, Intel Launches new Virtualization-Optimized Chip
Chipmaker Qualcomm announced some good news for its stockholders today – its board of directors approved a 13 percent increase to the company’s quarterly cash dividend. The dividend will increase from $0.19 to $0.215, or $0.86 annually per share, and will be effective for quarterly dividends payable after March 25, 2011. Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul ...
HP Expands on Consumer and Enterprise Hardware Fronts: Take a New Business Approach?
We’ve seen a fair share of updates and news coming from Hewlett-Packard’s direction in the last 36 hours, starting with their market strength. According to IDC’s numbers for Q4 2010, HP overthrown NetApp as the 3 largest player in the worldwide external disk storage systems market. HP’s market share was 11.6 percent with $704 million ...
Millennial Media Updates Android SDK, Sets Mobile Ad Standards with MMA
Top mobile advertising network Millennial Media had a couple of big announcements today, starting with the launch of the new Android 4.1 SDK. In light of Android’s rapid expansion, this latest release brings some major updates to developers. These are aimed to further strengthen marketers’ ability to maximize the highest CPMs-yielding campaigns Millennial offers; particularly ...
Impulse Point (and Dell) Move Northern Arizona University into the Cloud
Universities are prime places for cloud services to do a bit of testing all their own. The latest scholarly team up is between Dell and Northern Arizona University, which have successfully deployed its SafeConnect NAC, thus replacing an old Cisco Clean Access NAC installation (the Cisco NAC Applicance’s former name). It’s another lose for Cisco, ...
Android Still Most Logical Choice after Latest Malware Meltdown
After the 50 applications in the Android Market were discovered to be infected with the DroidDream malware, the company has remotely wiped malicious applications from users’ devices. Only phones running Android versions below 2.2.2 are vulnerable, and in addition to the wiping (accompanied by two e-mails from android-market-support@google.com), Google is also forcing an update called ...