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This Week in the Cloud: New Products, Acquisitions and Everything Between
This past week has seen a lot of announcements both from start-ups and the biggest players in the industry, further strengthening the cloud’s position on the global scale. Two of the best examples of that are Cloud.com and Gluster, who brought cloud adoption to a whole new level overseas. Cloud.com announced that its open source ...
Fusion-io Teams with StoneFly, Gets Some Extra Buzz
Integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems manufacturer StoneFly announced it has signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement (OEM) with high performance I/O solutions provider Fusion-io. Through the agreement StoneFly’s SCVM and ESS Windows virtual SAN software appliances will be bundled with Fusion-io’s ioMemory product line, and the new platform will be offered to joint ...
RIM Moves Up a Notch: Highlander, and a Screenless Phone
RIM has had a few of very notable updates today, starting with the licensing of over 30,000 patents from Intellectual Ventures, a company founded by former Microsoft veterans. The deal probably comes in light of the recent tech industry court clashes over alleged copyright infringements, but it doesn’t come as a surprise considering what RIM ...
Online Video Advertising Makes Big Strides with New Tech, TidalTV Reaps Rewards
Video ad optimization platform vendor TidalTV announced it has raised a massive $30+ million in its latest funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Comcast Interactive Capital and Valhalla Partners, and brings the Baltimore-based company’s total funding to $61 million. TidalTV was launched back in 2007, and had already ...
Mobile Games Continue to Drive Social Innovation, and Resources
Social gaming has been a huge tactical interest for second and third tier social networks in the past 3-5 years including Friendster, hi5, MySpace and Facebook, and now myYearbook joined the club in the mobile arena. The social network freshly acquired 5 popular Android games –Toss It, Tic Tac Toe, SpringDroid, Minesweeper and Line of ...
Can Android Hold its Lead for Next 5 Years?
The open-source Android OS is leading the charge in the mobile market, with a top share of 29% in January 2011. The mobile market landscape is expected to drastically change by 2015 however, and Android will become an even more prominent presence. IDC forecasts Android will capture 39.5 percent of the global market this year, ...
Online Media’s Second Heat Wave: Video and Radio Gain Momentum
Online video as well as radio are transforming into bigger and bigger, constantly-evolving industries, which accelerate along with the rest of the tech industry. Naturally, online video has attracted a great deal of marketers, and Adap.tv is one start-up making big gains by monetizing this area. It does so by offering a platform where publishers ...
Gluster Powers Sweden’s First IaaS Platform
Open source storage platform company Gluster announced that Swedish hosting solutions provider City Network Hosting is using its storage solution to power its City Cloud offering – Sweden’s first IaaS platform. The offering launched after more than 15 months in beta, and has an existing customer base of over 500 companies. “As City Cloud continues ...
Google Bringing Ultra Fast Broadband to Kansas City. Town Renaming Next?
In an effort to encourage existing internet service providers to offer higher speeds, Google chose Kansas City, Kansas as the first city where it will deploy an “ultra” high-speed broadband network. This project doesn’t mean Google is ready to jump into the internet service providers market and take on AT&T Verizon and others (yet), but ...
Personal Cloud Scales the Web: Evernote Gets More Social, Efficient
Note-taking cloud service Evernote has revamped its website – not the main (and actually the last) element pushing its ever-growing userbase. Either way, the updated site provides a glimpse into what we can expect from the Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android Evernote apps in the near future, including some pretty neat features. Among these tweaks ...