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Business Tablet Apps Take You to the Cloud and Beyond: This Week’s Best
Tablets are gaining more and more traction in the personal, as well as professional space. With the recent launch of the Motorola Xoom in stores and the unveiling of the iPad 2, it becomes evident that tablets are about to be big, and business apps are not left behind. So, we’ve scooped up 5 of ...
Urban Mapping finds Retail Locations with your Subway Ticket
Location-based services donned a front-row seat in the convergence of digital and real-life experiences, and following LivingSocial and the MapQuest Android app are the services aiming to capitalize on your location, multiplied by as many users to as many datasets as possible. Geospatial big data, online mapping and data visualization service provider Urban Mapping announced ...
This Week in the Cloud: Juniper, Cisco & IBM
Throughout the past week we’ve seen some major announcements from the biggest players in the cloud space, and Juniper and Cisco were at the center of attention once more. Juniper Networks yesterday launched the scalability-focused Converged Supercore offerings suit, an integrated end-to-end optical packet transport solution. Both the optical layer and packet layer run on Juniper’s ...
The High Price of IPO Talk: Twitter Takes On the Bubble
Some rumors and reports that surfaced lately suggest Twitter is heading for a public offering in the near future, but Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters the company doesn’t plan to go public anytime soon. “We have so many other things before we even think about that,” Biz Stone told Reuters at a business forum ...
Microsoft and Employees Beware, the Lawyers are Coming to Get You
Facebook has a history of snatching its competitors’ employees, but while Google paid an engineer $6 million so that she won’t defect to the social network, Microsoft has taken its efforts to an entirely different level – court. All Things D reports that after Facebook hired ex-Microsoft global ad sales head Carolyn Everson, Microsoft is ...
What the iPad 2 Means for Gaming, and the Specs You Need to Know
The iPad 2 was introduced by Apple yesterday, and we’ve all gotten a little taste of the next gen tablet. The iPad 2 was dubbed a game changer by some and a firm strategy by others, but as it turns outs, it’s also a pretty good game machine. Some of the most buzzed-about apps loaded ...
Online Video Sees Tremendous Growth, Spurs some Major Updates
New data from research firm Nielsen reveals U.S users spent 45% more time watching online video compared to 2010, and streamed 28% more video. The number of unique video viewers only increased by 3.1% compared to Jan 2010, but a drastic spike in activity means something big has happened during the past year – the ...
iPad 2: The Apps!
The iPad 2 has arrived. The duel-core tablet has some very powerful specs geared to compete with the Motorola Xoom, but we’ve also learned a bit about the apps it will feature. Not much info is available, but what we do know is that the IOS 3.4-running iPad 2 will ship with new iTunes Home ...
Cisco Acquires Pari Networks, Developing Strategy at Enterprise Connect 2011
Cisco’s core switch business may be declining, but the company has been working hard to cover as many areas in its offerings portfolio as possible. These currently range from teleconferencing to blade servers, and the latest development to Cisco’s strategy was announced today – the acquisition of Pari Networks. Pari Networks is a provider of ...
Facebook Juggles Privacy, Regulators and Ads as its Platform Grows in Influence
As Facebook fleshes out its business model around a social market and the mobile space, the network faces scrutiny for how it manages private data, having to justify the updates it pushes through. This week’s already been particularly busy for Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has notified the Congress it will carry ...