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From BlackBerry OS to PlayBook OS: About Time?
RIM’s PlayBook tablet, officially announced this week, will, oddly enough, be using a different operating system than the company’s BlackBerry devices. The PlayBook will consequently be powered by RIM’s latest acquisition of mobile OS developer QNX, and not the latest, sixth version of the BlackBerry operating system. Today, however, brings news that RIM may be ...
Microsoft Expands To More Markets, Collides with Old Rivals
Introducing the new and improved version of Office for Mac, Microsoft has made a rebound from its past, possibly deliberately abortive Office editions, and offers OS X users a new Office experience – a decent one. PCMag offers the details, “…Microsoft has finally gotten it right. After a string of disappointing releases, the new Mac ...
Google Preps Developers for International Paid Apps Market
The Android paid apps support currently enabled in a Google-uncharacteristic number of only 14 countries seems to finally be heading to a long-anticipated significant expansion. The following e-mail sent to Android developers from Google indicates the same: “Hello, We’re writing to inform you about some changes to Android Market that require your attention. Over the ...
Twitter Commands High Prices for Promoted Tweets – Statistics In Favor.
Twitter has recently picked up some of the Adword & AdSense ‘street wisdom’ Google has long since developed, and with a first sizable shot at making cold-hard advertising revenue, this Valley start-up is beginning to do some heavy marketing of its own. But is it the right direction? The Wall Street Journal looks at both ...
First Maker’s Faire in the East Coast, and the Age of Tomorrow
Taking place on the grounds of the New York Hall of Science, the first ever Maker’s Faire in the east coat is happening this weekend. It’s going to showcase just how far along we’ve come since the early days of the Net. Social media empowers people, and those people empower the community. O’Reilly’s got a ...
The Kindle and Mobile Tech: Proving Demand Beyond Smartphones
Amazon has released a new update for its free Kindle for Android e-Reading app, blessing it once more with an array of extra features, and demonstrating once again just how long its been since the Android user had to go to their local bookstore. The app that enables users to enjoy over 700,000 Kindle books ...
Target Introducing iPad to its Stores, and the Holiday Shopping Season Preparation Begins
Target has just announced it will start carrying 4 different models of the Apple iPad, as of October 3rd. These include the 16, 24 and 36GB models as well as the Wi-Fi 3G model. It’s of course, in time for the holiday shopping season, through a retailer that looks forward to this time of year, ...
Hotmail Updates: If Google’s Not There, Microsoft Is
Microsoft has released a number of notable updates to its e-mail service following the launch of the “re-invented Windows Live Hotmail” a few months ago, and is planning another wave with their news roll out today. This one will transform Hotmail into more multi-functional and collaborative tool, as all of these extra ‘little’ features are ...
Bill Cook Shares Greenplum’s Vision Post EMC Acquisition
Greenplum is the 10-year old company in the ever-expanding and rocketing field of intelligence and data warehousing space that had been acquired by EMC last July. Bill Cook, CEO of Greenplum discusses the company’s vision and the integration with EMC right here at SiliconANGLE. “The whole premise of the company [since its foundation] was to ...
Cloudera Co-Founder Amr Awadallah on Hadoop’s Role for the Enterprise
Editor’s Note: The following is an interview SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier held with Clouder co-founder, Amr Awadallah. This is one of several in-depth interviews held at the conference, which was streamed live at SiliconANGLE.tv. Cloudera, a company offering enterprises software, training, certification, technical support and more, is currently in the intense development process towards a ...