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HP Microsoft Poney Up $230 Million & Team Up To Drive Cloud Adoption
According to new reports Microsoft and HP are expanding their 25 year partnership. According to the briefing (which we were not part of) over the next three years, the two companies will invest $250 million to help customers and partners improve the customer experience for developing, deploying and managing today’s IT environments, and building next ...
War Against The West – Google China Situation
Here is a round up of some of the facts being reported around the web. Obviously to me this is a war against the west. Google has gone above and beyond the call of duty to comply with the China marketplace requirements. The China government is way out of bounds because its policies are too ...
Google Is Unstoppable – More Cloud More Web More Mobility – A Cloud Monopoly
Google is unstoppable. The only thing that will stop Google is the government. Google is innovating on so many fronts it’s unbelievable. Today, Google is announcing cloud storage on docs and spreadsheet. Google will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll ...
#CES2010 RUMOR: AT&T and Microsoft Buying DIRECTV – Announcement at CES
According to an industry source AT&T along with support from Microsoft will announce at CES that they are buying DIRECTV. I have not heard of an amount yet. I am actively trying to confirm. Based upon a reliable industry source, AT&T will purchase DIRECTV with support from Microsoft. Microsoft would be contributing money to secure ...
Google Phone Nexus One – A Pawn In The Mobile Chess Game
Google is introducing the Google gPhone or as the official names goes – The Google Nexus One. Engadget has the definitive review while others are chiming in here, here, and here. Google is playing the open card by forcing fast innovation in a developer focused way – similar to what made Microsoft successful in the ...
Apple Tablet Coming – You Can Thank Not The iPhone But The iTouch And App Store
The Apple Tablet is coming. What is it you ask? It’s an oversized iTouch. It will be perfect for surfing the web in bed or on the couch. The Apple Tablet will be just perfect. Why? One reason: The Apple App Store. Apple has just released the massive number on the App Store -3 Billion ...
Confirmed: Apple To Buy Quattro Wireless
Last month Google bought AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Now information is swirling around about the Apple Tablet. How will Apple deal with publishers and advertisers? The answer according to multiple industry sources is to buy Quattro Wireless for this months big announcement in San Francisco. Apple is said to be buying Quattro for ...
My Short List From Past 10 Years
Top Macro Trends of 2000s 1. Demand for online, Internet, and web 2. Proliferation of wireless capability 3. Social media –old way: one way broadcast web – email; new way: two way web – consumer generated media – blogs, podcasting, video, social networks, sharing Biggest Winners (Companies) in 2000s 1. Google 2. Apple 3. Facebook ...
Happy New Year
2009 was the year SiliconANGLE was born. What a great year. In our first 10 month of existence we managed to produce over 1100 posts reaching over 600,000+ unique users. What’s more exciting is the engaged group of contributors. At the beginning I felt that a healthy goal was to have maybe 20 contributors in ...
Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Players
Rackspace is partnering with FathomDB, a relational database-as-a-service (DaaS) company. FathomDB is a service that will make the day-to-day operations of running a database much simpler, allowing you to focus on higher end tasks of your application. This partnership is an extension of Rackspace’s ecosystem buildout (under Cloud Tools site), and at the same time ...