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Citrix Takes on Unstructured Data with DataStream, MySQL’s New Traffic Cop
Citrix is launching a new product for the cloud, addressing the exponential growth the industry has witnessed in recent years. Called DataStream, the technology behind this virtual “traffic cop” is based on Citrix’s popular NetScaler service delivery networking product line. Already established in infrastructure data management, this latest move by Citrix has aims to take ...
Cisco to Buy newScale, Scaling its Own Cloud Portfolio
Cisco’s made public its plans for another acquisition today, hoping to add privately-held newScale to its family. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. newScale is a software provider delivering self-service portals for IT organizations, to select and deploy cloud services for their business. They deal with the enterprise market, offering cloud scalability ...
AHHHA! I Wish I Woulda Thought of That. I’d Be a Millionaire by Now.
If only I’d thought of a blanket with arms. I’d be a millionaire by now, right? No, not really. I actually did think of a blanket with arms, long before Snuggie was a worldwide brand. And I’d seen plenty of other armed-blankets for sale, in catalogs you find in airplane seat pockets, selling their cashmere ...
Bambuser Survives Early Mobile Pitfalls, Preps for Re-Launch and US Tour
When it comes to realizing the potential of mobile platforms and applications, there aren’t many stories as well-played as Bambuser’s. The Stockholm-based startup has been waiting for the right time to explode onto the mobile scene, and that time is now upon us. With a highly successful application on the iPhone and Android, this Qik ...
WOT’s Big Data Makes Facebook, Twitter (and Even Bit.ly) Safer
There’s a lot of data being thrown around today, through social networks, deal sites and mobile coupon collection services, local search and even restaurant recommendations. Processing all of that is an easy task for machines, but what about people? Today’s consumer is faced with a firehose of information, from blog reviews to personal suggestions being ...
Mint.com Update Puts Big Data to Work on Your Home Loan
Mint.com’s got some updated features in its app, all focused on helping users refinance or prepare for a home purchase. In Mint’s efforts to help people tackle this very specific and economically impacting debt, they’ve turned to big data to create more custom tools and capabilities. This is another step towards highly personal finance management, ...
Pageonce An Early Supporter of Amazon Appstore, Applies Big Data to Personal Finance
Pageonce was always a few steps ahead of the curve, launching a rather inclusive personal assistant application over two years ago, and diving head first into the mobile sector, where the company and its dev team have been nimble enough to navigate these new and exciting waters. With a heavily promoted app that’s available on ...
IMDb Personalizes Big Data, Updates iPad App
IMDb has always been a great resource for movie buffs and entertainment lovers, and its ability to parse through data is what makes IMDb such a useful tool. With its mobile apps, IMDb has been able to expand on its data renderings, providing more personalized features based on its learned behavior and user interaction. A ...
Springpad Updates Android App, Leverages Google’s Secret Metadata Sauce
Evernote competitor Springpad has updated its Android app today, revealing version 2.1 to the Market. It’s improvements revolve around several user-requested upgrades, but there are a series of new widgets that take advantage of the Android platform in particular. These widgets are configurable according to the type of interaction you’d like to take, making them ...
Mobile Payments Still Need Middlemen, Says ROAM Data VP
Mobile payments spread the promise of wallet elimination, ridding credit cards of mantras that remind us to never leave home without it–and its contents. But the matter of how mobile payments will actually play out is a story of industry exploration that wades through consumer security, regulated standards and market demands, all balanced on the ...