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LIVE : Will Microsoft’s 7-inch Surface Save Win8? Beat Out the iPad Mini?
Microsoft’s still new to the hardware game, launching with two 10-inch Surface tablets in the past six months. But Microsoft’s also late to the tablet game, entering a severely crowded market that’s ripe with handset variety. So it’s not surprising to hear that Microsoft’s working on a smaller Surface tablet at 7-inches, that would compete ...
Coinsetter Faces a Tough Crowd : There’s No Demand for Another Bitcoin Market
Bitcoin’s paradigm-shifting approach to currency has got the world in a tizzy, spawning a flurry of copycats, if nothing else. Coinsetter launches today with a well-funded entry into an ever-crowding market, where Bitcoin holds a substantial majority share. With $500k in seed money from Tribeca Venture Partners and SecondMarket founder and CEO Barry Silbert (via ...
LIVE : NewsDesk Show : The Sexy Side of Software-Defined Networking
The human brain is a silent muse in IT, always inspiring smarter connections throughout the datacenter. Networking isn’t immediately associated with something as complex as the human brain, but this area of the datacenter is getting smarter and more efficient all the time. Two trends driving innovation in the networking space are open source communities ...
Magic Quadrant Sapped of Its Powers – Storage Market Has a Complex Future
We’re caught in a transition where the datacenter is concerned. The enterprise is reworking datacenter infrastructure from the inside-out, shaking up traditional concepts around software and automation. The same transition must take place for the analysts responsible for contextualizing the IT industry. Given the rapid changes in the storage market in particular, Gartner may have ...
Springpad 4.0 : YouTube + Pinterest Had a Baby
Springpad is in the air, with a seasonable update to its smart notebook service. Version 4.0 of its cross-platform note-taking app comes with a fresh look, improved search, and embeddable notebooks (see ours below). I’ll tell you right now, my favorite new features are the embeddable notebooks and the revamped home page, which makes note-management ...
3 Ways Spotify Can Beat Netflix : Mixtapes + Movies
Though Spotify came on the scene with gusto and rapid adoption, it has yet to fully revolutionize the music industry. Now Spotify could be after the streaming video sector, competing with the likes of Netflix and HBO GO. The streaming music cloud service once set out to make labels dependent on the service, but Spotify ...
A Move into the Modern Web World: NoSQL + the Enterprise
The use of NoSQL databases has grown rapidly over the last 3 years. NoSQL’s advantages over relational technologies in scalability, performance and data model flexibility have been a big reason. Internet and mobile applications developed by Intern companies, defined as company’s whose entire business revolves around the Internet, were the first to adopt NoSQL. Initially ...
Pinfluencer : Worry Free over Pinterest Analytics, Dons New Name in “Startup Utopia”
Right now Pinfluencer is in “startup Utopia,” according to founder and CEO Sharad Verma. But that paradise could be facing storm clouds now that Pinterest is encroaching on its territory. Just days after Pinterest announces its own analytics suite, Pinfluencer, a startup that helps marketers promote their brands on Pinterest, drops the “pin” reference from its ...
6 Best Alternatives to the Dying Google Reader
Seven years is quite a long time in Internet years, but not long enough for Google Reader. One of our favorite tools for RSS management, Google Reader is being sunset by its parent company, a sad development we’ve expected for a while now. Thanks to declining use and the rise of Twitter and other sites ...
Pull Up to My Bumper: EMC Backs Up its Services Strategy
The magic of software is its ability to become smarter over time, achieving new efficiencies and overall making our lives easier. Software services is the glue that can bring together the disparate components of the datacenter, humming along harmoniously. Yes, the services-model seems to solve a lot of problems for IT — except for a few sour ...