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Cisco’s New Integrated Smart Grid Platform
Networking giant Cisco and energy management solutions maker Itron announced a jointly developed smart grid architecture that fuses together technologies from both companies. The solution is comprised of the Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Router and the Cisco Network Management System (NMS). These run alongside Itron’s IPV6-supporting smart meters, powered by the OpenWay Reporting System ...
Social Startup Echo Hires Two Key Execs
Echo hired Ron Bouganim and Kristin Hersant to fill two management positions, as the start-up seeks to strengthen its internal structure. Echo provides real-time solutions to consumer-facing brands. That consists social integration for the most part, in the form of add-ons that are designed to boost user enhancement and traffic. Echo claims that it serves ...
Sprint Changes its Tune on Carrier IQ Support
Sprint confirmed that is its working with its OEMs to remove Carrier IQ from its devices. The first one handset that will get its firmware replaced is the HTC EVO 3D, and based on an official statement The Verge received it’s highly probable that the carrier will expand this effort to additional portions of its ...
From Android to Siri, Steve Wozniak Sees Apple’s Hurdles
Steve Wozniak seems to believe that Android has quite a bit more potential than iOS, the flagship platform – at least by revenue – of the consumer electronics giant he helped co-found with the late Steve Jobs. Wozniak stressed that while he uses an iPhone as his main handset, he thinks Google managed to get ...
Stack Exchange’s Growth Due to Quality and Quantity: Infographic
Stack Exchange released an infographic that provides that looks into all the growth the company has seen in 2011, including the funding it raised and the surge in monthly visitors among other things. The company started branching out into the Q&A space in August 2010, prior to the name change when it was still Stack ...
SAP Steps Up Analytics with Latest Acquisition
SAP is moving in quickly to capture its share of the analytics market, and it seems retail is a particular area of interest for the business software maker. HANA, its in-memory big data appliance, has been steadily gaining momentum since launch, and the firm is fleshing out this strategy with new investments. SAP announced at ...
AppDynamics Gets $20M from Kleiner Perkins for App Optimization
Application performance management software vendor AppDynamics announced a Series C funding round, in which it raised $20 million from new investor Kleiner Perkins, and existing backers Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company will be making the most of the new capital, spreading it out across its sales and R&D teams in order to ...
Amazon Seeing Success on both Sides of the Kindle Aisle
Amazon released some new figures about the success of the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select program, which launched in December. The retail giant says that the Kindle E-Book Lending Library now features over 75,000 titles, and demand is on the rise thanks to KDP Select. Customers are allowed to borrow one book per month, and ...
Amazon Opens More Microsoft Functionality for Free Users
The latest post on the AWS blog reveals an update to the AWS Free Usage Tier, which has been made more attractive for the sake of free users. A Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 EC2 t1.micro instance can now be run for up to 750 hours per month without charge, and another 750 hours are ...
AppMobi Launches Mobile-Optimized jQuery Alternative
AppMobi, a maker of mobile development solutions, launched its latest project. The jQ.Mobi JavaScript framework rolled out into private beta under an MIT X11 license, and puts a big emphasis on the “other” type of cloud in the consumer space, enhancing the ideals the mobile industry in particular has adopted. jQ.Mobi is specifically designed to ...