Google+ Answers All Your Questions
Google’s latest effort at a social network since the failure of Google Buzz is really picking up, thanks to the attention it’s getting in its first few weeks of existence. Analyst Paul Allen used…
Apple Addresses Privacy with iOS 5 Beta 3
Apple promises to launch iOS 5 to its users by this fall, and it’s making sure developers are ready. After all, one of the biggest issues with rival Android’s Honeycomb OS was that there…
Hulu’s Up for Grabs, but Netflix Ain’t Buying
The sale of Hulu, the popular video streaming service currently being auctioned off by owners News Corp, Walt Disney, and Comcast’s NBCUniversal, is entering the next stage, but trouble is in the air. The…
Microsoft and Nokia Strengthen Ties, but is it Good for Business?
Microsoft and Nokia have struck a multi-billion dollar partnership to develop a line-up of Nokia-built devices powered by Windows Phone 7. Both of the companies have been struggling to keep up with the competition…
CMS Market Hits New Milestones with WordPress and Others
Popular blogging platform WordPress had a couple of big announcements these past few weeks. A counter on WordPress.com, which tallies the number of WordPress installations on their own servers as well as self-hosted blogs,…
Millennial Media May Be a Good Buy for Apple
Apple’s iAd mobile marketing platform is certainly not the company’s biggest money maker, but the consumer electronics giant is still trying to expand its foothold in a market, which is expected to be worth…
IPv6 Gets Complicated as Two Internets Emerge
World IPv6 Day, a test spanning 24 hours through which over 400 major web companies severed content via IPv6, was held exactly one month ago. It was lead by Yahoo, Google, VMware and other…
This Week in the Cloud: Big Data, Consumer Computing and Privacy
As always, this past week has been packed with significant developments from several companies looking to monetize all the demand surrounding the cloud. Amazon Web Services is currently one of the largest players in…
Dell’s Turning into a “Lifestyle Brand” via the Personal Cloud
Dell launched its new “More You” ads this week, presumably to make it clear for the end-user that it can stand up to the criteria set forth by Apple, HP, and the numerous other…
More Universities Turn to Virtual Desktops; UConn’s New HTML5 Solution
Virtualization solutions maker Ericom announced that the University of Connecticut is piloting its AccessNow flagship offering – a purely HTML5-based virtualization client for VMware View customers. The university has already tested the product successfully,…