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Carl Icahn wants Wall Street to know he’s putting his money where his mouth is. On Monday, the activist investor issued an open letter urging Dell’s board to change its stance on his buyout offer in light of the $5.2 billion debt …
Express Metrix CEO Weighs in on the Pros and Cons of SAM Software
Software asset management (SAM) becomes an increasingly important priority for IT departments as their organizations grow. Beyond a certain point, it’s impossible to comply with all the licensing terms of each version of every single application without a proactive and comprehensive SAM …
Microsoft Loses Trademark Dispute Over Skydrive
Microsoft found itself on the receiving end of copyright law enforcement on Friday after a London judge ruled that its popular Skydrive service is in violation of the “Sky” trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group. Sky is the largest satellite television …
HP Seeks Android Alternatives to Re-Enter Smartphone Race
According to Yam Su Yin, HP’s senior director of consumer PCs and media tablets for Asia-Pacific, the tech juggernaut is once again eyeing a share in the heavily crowded smartphone market. The executive told The Indian Express that the company is looking …
Bytes Sized: Putting Big Data into Perspective
To say that information technology has come a long way in the past few four decades would be an understatement. On Visual.ly, a San Francisco-based startup that connects data experts, designers and marketing professionals, we find an infographic entitled “Bytes Sized” to …
Rackspace Helps CERN Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
Rackspace has teamed up with the European Organization for Nuclear Research to develop a federation service that connects its platform-as-a-service solution with OpenStack and the Rackspace Private Cloud architecture. According to the company, its developers will collaborate with CERN’s openlab unit and …
IBM to Make New York’s Lake George the “Smartest Lake” in the World
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Fund for Lake George commissioned IBM to build a sophisticated monitoring system that will help scientists gain new insights into the lake’s ecosystem. Big Blue said that it will provide the hardware, software and know-how needed to …
Hadoop Summit Recap: Who Will Come Out Ahead in the Race to Zero?
TheCube stopped by Hadoop Summit in San Jose to bring you the latest news and analysis from the Big Data ecosystem. Near the end of Day 1, SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly assembled for a …
CIOs Need to Become More Active, Visible to Fix IT
Bridging the gap between a company’s IT organization and business users is a daunting task, but not an impossible one. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, argues that it is within the CIO’s power to prove that IT is an …
Weekly Cloud Review: Amazon Hot on the Heels of Microsoft
This week, Microsoft announced that a leading provider of cloud-based automation software added its solution to the Azure marketplace, and Amazon revealed that it has allied with GE to analyze sensory data from a wide range of devices in AWS. WANdisco also …