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Google CEO Vows to Improve Rare Vocal Cord Paralysis, Overall “Feeling Very Lucky”
An encouragingly positive blog post from Larry Page reveals the Google CEO has vocal cord paralysis, a rare condition affecting not one, but both of his vocal cords. Page still has his voice, and has been improving it at that. Despite the unfortunate diagnosis of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in 2003, the regular keynote speaker is proud ...
NetApp Responds to EMC’s Software-Defined Storage Launch, Touts Its Own ONTAP
Business is getting smarter by the day, and that include’s the datacenter. Software is redefining datacenter architecture at the storage level, lowering costs and improving efficiency all the while. And as hardware continues to “disappear” at the enterprise and consumer levels, the importance of software is on the rise. The evolution in the datacenter has ...
Can Big Data Measure Happiness? BloomReach Says Yes
A true gold mine of Big Data? Consumer intent. It’s why social media has become so prevalent in the marketing world — low-cost market research is great fodder for predicting what a user really wants, when and how they’ll buy. And newer social media platforms like Pinterest have made it even easier to make those predictions, enabling ...
LIVE Chat: Every Question You Ever Had about Flash – Who, Where + How Much?
Flash technology is changing system design for IT, prompting a massive shift in datacenter design and leaving dozens of questions scattered in the aftermath. The matter of transitioning to this new era requires a great deal of research, time and planning, introducing countless obstacles to address along the way. We’ll be hearing from industry experts ...
OpenStack Summit Rallies the Troops, Drives Competition for AWS
Just a few years old, OpenStack has burst onto the scene as an open source alternative to Amazon’s AWS, providing the likes of IBM, VMware and other large enterprise players to rally against Amazon’s encroachment on the enterprise. This week’s OpenStack Summit, an annual event that started five years ago with a budget of $15,000, ...
Why Nokia Should Stick with Windows 8: Do One Thing, and Do it Well
Nokia’s latest quarterly earnings report reveals some promising numbers for the Finnish smartphone maker and its continuous improvement with the Windows 8-powered Lumia sales worldwide, but it’s struggling in the U.S. In fact, North America was the only country that witnessed a decline in Nokia Lumia sales, while China seems hungry for Nokia’s high end ...
Is Facebook the Past for Gaming & Twitter The Future for TV?
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: EA pulls back from Facebook, Foxconn resumes hiring to gear up for production of the new iPhone, Google Fiber gets a boost from Sony, and more. EA just announced the closure of a number of its popular Facebook games such as The Sims Social, Pet Society, and SimCity ...
Obama Reaffirms Stance Against CISPA Bill, Cites Privacy Concerns
Despite hundreds of lobbyists, tens of millions of dollars and even a few dozen IBM executives marching on Capital Hill, the White House has shared its decision to veto the highly controversial and hotly debated CISPA cybersecurity bill, which set out to make it easier for the government and private companies to share data in their ...
Could a Microsoft SmartWatch Boost Win8 Sales?
Wearable devices. They’re all the rage, and even as the FitBand continues to grow in popularity, the next gadget craze is expected to be a smart watch: always-there, accessible and conceptually impregnated in our minds through decades of Sci-Fi flicks. So now that smartphones and tablets have completely saturated the market, the world awaits the ...
Apple Job Posting Hints at Smart Watch Project : Here’s 6 Ways to Win
Smartphones? So passe. Tablets? So 2012. The next “it” thing in consumer gadgets is the smartwatch, a device that could become all the more exciting with the use of flexible glass. We’ve seen the technology at CES (thanks Samsung), and we’ve seen a number of related patents filed, Google being the most recent. But the ...