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Consistency is Key to Owning the Mobile Stack: Q&A with mSpot CEO
Consistency isn’t a word often associated with today’s mobile scene. With fiery mobile OS wars, a battle for the very soul of every consumer and an emerging string of marketplaces designed to store your personal media, the mobile realm is one seemingly reeling with constant change. But Daren Tsui, CEO of mSpot, anticipated much of ...
WiFi’s Role in Toppling 4G and Local Retail Ads
Intel researchers are working on a project called Rosepoint wherein they managed to put a digital 2.4 GHz WiFi radio on a chip, right next to one of their low-power Atom CPUs. The new technology may soon show up in laptops and mobile devices, paving the way for gadgets with longer battery life, since a ...
Everything You Need to Know about HP Gen8 (Including IT Job Landscape): VIDEO
We’ve been discussing the shift to I/O centric servers for a while, and much of our analysis was validated with HP’s latest server launch. Dubbed Project Voyager, the new Gen8 servers promise to reduce operation costs, among other things, essentially making the management of servers an idiot-proof task. Shortly after HP made their announcement at ...
IBM Puts Big Data in Universities: Hopes We’ll Never Run Out of Nerds
There’s a new career rising for professionals who are passionate about numbers–data scientist. In order to make the best out of the surge of data that plagues the worldwide web every day, we need more of these people. A study by McKinsey Global Institute confirms that United States will need 140,000 to 190,000 mavens in ...
April’s the Best Month to Fly: Rearden, Hadoop Make Sense of Flight Data
Big data’s predicting powers have countless possibilities, and recent studies show that it can predict house-selling markets better than real-estate analysts themselves. This time, next-generation ecommerce platform Rearden analyzes air flight factors and issues to know about.
Appcelerator Extends Titanium Platform with Cocoafish Buy
Appcelerator, the maker of the Titanium mobile app development platform, has acquired Cocoafish in the latest move to expand the functionality of its offering. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cocoafish offers developers 25 cloud-based features they can add to their apps via APIs. These include things such as a status updates engine for ...
Springcoin Launches Automated Debt Relief Program: where Data Meets Human Expertise
Credit cards are handy-- but that’s also the exact reason why they can cause you a whole lot of mess. You just keep buying stuff till your debt bulks up and then you wonder where all that money went. Now, if you have some serious shopping problems and has been in serious debt situations a ...
schoolFeed Gets $1.7M to Connect Classmates that Missed the Facebook Boat
schoolFeed, a new classmate network launched by former RockYou CEO Lance Tokuda, announced a $1.7 million seed investment in a round of funding led by First Round Capital, with the participation of Crosslink Capital, InterWest, and SK Telecom. Since schoolFeed launched in July 2011, the networking site dedicated to connecting high school classmates has gained ...
What Happens When a PR Guy Scratches His Own Itch? Totem Launches Beta Today
It’s always interesting to see what press people come up with when they try to change their own industry. There’s often an element of self-serving product pushing that’s borne of a long-standing need for change. And as an observer and participant of the press industry, I have my own qualms with the way things currently ...
How Can Facebook Better Monetize the Video Sector?
I think this is a good topic to talk about. People have gone round and about comparing both services just because they happen to be the biggest in the online scene and this we have to accept with open arms. If it were just me, I don’t think Facebook will trump YouTube and vice versa, ...