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The app marketplace is evolving, and the office is quickly following customer trends as more and more apps surface to address business needs. This week, mobile BI app MicroStrategy tops our list. iPad MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad MicroStrategy for iPad is a …
Hadoop Summit Recap: Yahoo, Cloudera and Everything in Between
Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week, and featured some pretty major developments, including what analyst Alex Williams dubbed Yahoo’s smartest play in years. Yahoo’s Hadoop division separated from the company to form a new startup, Hortonworks, backed by Benchmark Capital. Hortonworks …
Skype Video Chat Catches Up to Competitive Android Scene
Skype had a significant update today. The VoIP giant rolled out video chat support for four Android-powered devices, and announced that there are plans in place to extend the new features to more devices “very soon.” Currently, HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson …
Universities Find Research Benefits in HP Big Data Solutions
Hewlett-Packard’s landed another academic partner to utilize its storage and big data solutions. The University of Utah’s Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) selected HP storage technology and servers handle big data processing for its research projects and accelerate information delivery. “Our …
Karmasphere Gets Good Vibes with Latest Hadoop Team-Up
Hadoop-powered big data analytics companies Karmasphere and Think Big Analytic announced today at the Hadoop Summit they’re partnering up to develop and provide joint offerings. These products will be designed for companies that leverage Hadoop to carry out unstructured data analysis. “Our …
Social Enterprise Matters, In Case You Didn’t Know
Social business software maker Jive released a report today suggesting that social enterprise is being considered a strategic priority by more and more execs. The study, called Jive Social Business Index 1H 2011, surveyed 301 executives, 301 working millennials and 300 general …
HP Expands Storage Business Amidst Company Shifts
Hewlett-Packard is making storage a very major aspect of its outlook, especially as it shifts in manufacturing and services strategies to reflect today’s enterprise and consumer markets. The company is currently the largest storage vendor in terms of sales, and is constantly …
Cisco Needs to Offer Value to Investors, One Way or Another
Networking giant Cisco has seen its stock decline drastically throughout the past four quarters; something that, according to Barron’s, means this can be a good time to buy shares of the company. Cisco has reached a low, and buying cheap now may …
The Amazon Experience is Expanding with New Ad Network
Amazon is a very big marketplace in several sectors: retail, e-publishing, music, daily deals and digital content to name a few. Now the web giant is looking to enter yet another business, launching a brand new ad network. In partnership with San …
Personal Cloud Boost Driven by Mobile, Video and Beyond
The personal cloud industry is seeing a lot of updates as countless companies – from startups to some of the biggest players in tech – try to take a shot at monetizing this exploding market. As competition intensifies, increasingly innovative offerings surface …