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News just crossed the wire that some of Amazon’s AWS services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database service are experiencing some technical difficulties. Details of these difficulties and their cause are scarce, but Amazon is currently “working towards …
AT&T Still Alive and Well: Wireless Growth, Verizon iPhone, T-Mobile
Just like Intel, VMware and China Mobile, AT&T also had its earnings call within the last 24 hours. However, in addition to the financial information the call also provided some insight to a couple of consumer trends, particularly wireless data streaming the …
New Color Competitor in Town: EventJot
Still a newly launched service, Color is a photo-sharing app that enables users to share media only with contacts located within a given distance from them. While the concept is a very simple one, Color was an extremely high profile launch and …
Mobile Competition Intensifying – In China, Too.
Competition in the mobile space is growing as more and more devices and services debut. This is also true on a global scale, and perhaps China in particular. China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest mobile carrier, reported today that its first-quarter net …
VMware Sees Real Growth: 33% Year-over-Year
VMware had its earnings call yesterday afternoon and just like EMC, it has also reported remarkable growth. The company’s revenues in Q1, 2011 added up to an impressive $844 million, beating its own and analysts’ exceptions expectations with a 33% year-over-year increase. …
Intel Earnings Call Beats Estimates After Low Expectations
Intel’s earnings call was yesterday, and despite of some pessimistic expectations the chipmaker reported blockbuster first quarter profits. Intel reported $3.2 billion, up 29 percent over the same period last year, and revenues also up at $12.8 billion, or about 25 percent …
Data Retention: User Friendly Policies?
Data retention is a very important matter to a lot of online users– either because they’re looking for an ideal experience, or because it’s the very thing they’re looking to avoid as much as possible. Nevertheless, privacy concerns don’t seem to worry …
Mobile Video Gets Premium Update, HBO Goes Head-to-Head with Netflix
Video streaming is becoming more significant on the go, as devices are getting stronger and companies are coming up with better offerings. HBO is one of those companies, and we’ve learned that HBO Go, a service allowing users to stream some 1,400 …
EnterpriseDB Update: Saving With Open Source
Today we’ve learned of an update coming from EnterpriseDB, the largest independent PostgreSQL open source database technology provider. The company released a customer case study detailing how international marketing services company Aquent replaced its existing Sybase database with EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server. …
Sonos Expands the Personal (Music) Cloud
Streaming-music technology maker Sonos launched a free app for Android app, supporting most of the operating system’s phones and tablets. The app utilizes Android’s built-in voice recognition feature to offer voice search, and controls the volume of a Sonos device using the Android …