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Living In The Avengers: Gadgets to Inspire Your Inner Superhero
The Avengers hits theaters May 4, culminating years of Marvel comics-inspired movies from Iron Man to Captain America, Thor and The Hulk. Their forces will come together in the upcoming Avengers movie, making for one serious superhero battle like nothing the world’s ever seen. We’ve rounded up a few geeky gadgets and products that tap ...
Is There a Bright Side to Internet Censorship? WildPackets’ MacLeod Tells All [Q&A Series]
WiFi’s often hailed as the savior of crappy mobile networks, their hotspots keeping us from bleeding out our data “minutes” and luring in the lost and weary souls of mobile workers seeking refuge in cafes, hotel lobbies and airport hubs. As a network analyzer, WildPackets sees the good, bad and evil of WiFi trends on ...
Appcelerator Unveils Titanium 2.0, Highlights Cloud Integration
Web development firm Appcelerator has a tasty new treat in store for the 300k developers currently using its flagship Titanium platform – version 2.0 is available as of this morning. The big addition is Appcelerator Cloud Services, which is also available as an independent platform for developers. ACS is the result of Appcelerator’s earlier acquisition ...
Turning Data Into Actionable Knowledge is Key to Big Data Management [CEO Series]
Scaling mountains of data is becoming a necessary skill set in today’s business and consumer world. Envisioning the systems behind this is ZL Technologies CEO Kon Leong, an inquisitive man with a provocative perspective. Running a company that provides software solutions for enterprise’s unmanageable big data problem, Leong has an idea or two on how systems should be developed, implemented and ...
Where’s the Data Fit into Social TV Platforms and Ads?
While the social element of television is not new, Social TV is a relatively new concept used to describe the emerging generation of television services that integrate with other communication platforms like voice, chat and social media on the web. Social TV leverages the power of social networks to create a new type of highly ...
VSPEX is Channel Partner Friendly, says EMC CMO Jeremy Burton
EMC revealed some big news this morning with VSPEX, a new package its formed around several of its existing products to make for a ready-made converged infrastructure solution that’s channel friendly. Shortly after his keynote this morning, EMC CMO Jeremy Burton stopped by theCube with SiliconAngle founding editor John Furrier and Wikibon founder Dave Vellante ...
Sumo Logic Brings Data Rock Stars to Advisory Board
Sumo Logic is a maker of a cloud-based log management and analytics platform that exited stealth earlier this year, after a $15 million second round of funding. The company raised a total of about $20 million in capital to date and is now stepping into high gear with its new advisory board. Sumo Logic brought in ...
Springpad Overhaul Adds Collaboration with Public Notebooks. I’m In Love
Springpad’s just dropped version 3.0 of their productivity suite, launching the public, collaborative notebooks I’ve been anticipating for some time. The update brings them one step closer to matching certain functions of Evernote while differentiating their tools around actionability, making for one extremely useful tool. I’ve taken to using Springpad on a daily basis, curating ...
eXo Announces UXPaaS for the Enterprise
eXo is introducing a new hosted collaboration solution for the enterprise named Cloud Workspaces, dubbed as a “user experience platform-as-a-service.” The concept of an enterprise social network designed to help workers leverage the social tools within the office is nothing new, and Cloud Workspaces seems to come with all the standard features. It includes a ...
What Facebook’s Instagram Buy Means for its Mobile Strategy: Data, Search
Facebook’s taken the proactive measure of acquiring Instagram, the mobile photo-sharing network regularly referred to as Facebook’s biggest competition. What’s most notable about the deal is the price tag – $1 billion for the startup that, just last week, was going after a $50 million funding round with a valuation of $500 million. Instagram’s certainly ...