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Daily Roundup: Mozilla Shuns iOS, Pinterest Traffic Analytics and More
Today’s most notable consumer tech updates include the launch of a new Pinterest feature for site owners, a bold revelation from Mozilla at SxSW, and the introduction of apps for Google Glass at the same event. SiliconAngle’s Kristin Feledy provided a full summary of the news on this morning’s NewsDesk segment (full video below). Pinterest Analytics ...
Here’s How HP Can Speed Up Its 5 Year Plan to Restructure
At Hewlett-Packard’s recent analyst gathering in Boston, the company’s top brass shared their plan to get the technology vendor back on the saddle. Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante was among the insiders who got an invite to the meeting. Vellante discussed his observations from the event with Kristin Feledy on this morning’s NewsDesk segment (full video below). ...
IBM’s CEO Says Big Data is Like Oil, Enterprises Need Help Extracting the Value
IBM chief executive officer Ginni Rometty regards analytics as a new source of competitive advantage for her company’s enterprise clientele. “I want you to think about data as the next natural resource,” Rometty told an audience of business leaders and lawmakers during a recent speech in front of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. ...
Gartner Predicts Analytics Growth to Drop Significantly in 2013
In one of its latest reports, research firm Gartner projects that the global market for analytics and business intelligence will only grow 7 percent this year. That’s a significant drop from the 16 percent that Gartner reported for 2011, when big data wasn’t creating nearly as much buzz as it does now. Gartner expects that ...
Amazon Slashes Rates, Microsoft Shows Off Xbox 720 : Cloud Review
This week had a few very newsworthy highlights, including the latest from Amazon and VMware, a massive cloud funding round, and a major update about the much-expected Xbox 720. Amazon lowered the rates for its Reserved Instance service by 28 percent in response to a similar announcement from Rackspace, a competing public cloud provider, just ...
Breaking Analysis: Rick Jackson a “Great CMO” for VMware, Steps Down. We Look Back on His Vision
According to our sources VMware’s Rick Jackson is stepping down from his current position as chief marketing officer. He will continue to serve as the virtualization giant’s CMO until a replacement is found. An earlier report from TechCrunch stated that VMware’s Jackson will continue to work for the company as senior vice president of global ...
HP Driving Enterprise at Industry Analyst Summit : Breaking Analysis
Hewlett-Packard invited some 250 industry analysts to Boston this week, where the company’s top brass surveyed strategy and current market positioning. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman attended the event, and went over the highlights with Kristin Feledy on this morning’s NewsDesk segment (full video below). The first thing he points out is that the previous HP ...
Bugs Will Always Plague Mobile Software. What’s It Mean for Android?
A Samsung device owner recently discovered a method to bypass the login screen and gain full access to his phone without ever entering a password. The technique relies on a flaw in the native emergency call feature that could potentially be abused by hackers and thieves. SiliconAngle contributing editor John Casaretto went over the latest ...
The Storage Food Chain: Mission Critical Workloads will Move to All-Flash, Hybrid
Flash has been a revolutionizing technology impacting enterprise and consumer storage alike. From the data center to the USB port, flash storage has introduced new capabilities for storing and sharing data. And this week’s been particularly huge for flash technology, given the number of related updates and product launches from some of the industry’s best. ...
Apple, Google Taking Different Paths to Music Subscription Cloud
The latest Apple rumor is that CEO Tim Cook and Eddy Cue, the company’s head of internet products, met with music producer and entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine during a trip to Los Angeles last month. Lovine is the co-founder of audio technology firm Beats Electronics. Unnamed sources cited by Reuters claim that the topic of the ...