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What Windows Phone 7 Means for the Cloud
Windows Phone 7 is still a variable in the long-term effect of the mobile OS war. But early expectations of the platform are high, and now that Microsoft has officially debuted Windows Phone 7, the world is anxious to figure out what it all means, despite the fact that its real world scenarios have yet ...
We’re Live at Hadoop World, Rocking the Cloud. Tune Into #theCUBE!
SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon.org founder Dave Vellante are at it again. Our “resident anchormen” have been traveling the world with #theCUBE, covering the cloud from every angle. This week they’re at Hadoop World, an event we’ve especially been looking forward to for several weeks now. Backed by Cloudera, Hadoop’s open-source cloud tools are ...
OraOop Sounds like a Basketball Trick, but it’s Really an Oracle-Apache Enhancer
At Hadoop World today, a new tool was released from Quest Software and Cloudera, the company behind Hadoop. Called OraOop, it’s a connector between Oracle and Apache Hadoop, allowing for fast, scalable data transfer between the respective databases. OraOop was developed by Quest as a free plug-in to Sqoop, Clouder’a existing open-source framework. What OraOop ...
Windows Phone 7 Has Arrived! Here’s the Rundown.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled Windows Phone 7 today, in all its glory. A handful of devices for AT&T and T-Mobile offer a good start for consumer availability, and the specs aren’t half bad either. The OS itself is designed for integrated purposes, with Outlook and Uverse integration, a task-oriented homescreen, and graphic support ...
Scoreloop Broadens Gamer Networks to Samsung’s bada Platform
Scoreloop has teamed up directly with handset maker Samsung to bring its Social gaming SDK to the bada platform, as well as its infrastructure to the World Cyber Games. With this deal, Scoreloop’s SDK will be available to Samsung’s deveopers, offering up bada integration for those publishers that already support the Scoreloop platform. The native ...
Samsung, LG Among First to Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices
Windows Phone 7 should be here any minute, and handset makers are all ready for the new Microsoft mobile launch. Samsung and LG are both reportedly launching their first cell phones running the Windows Phone 7 OS next week, according to PCWorld. For the mobile phone manufacturers, you should see Windows handsets in France later ...
TubeMogul’s $10M Funding Round, Analytics and Ads of Video’s Future
Online video and related analytics are really starting to pay off. Video advertising and analytics startup TubeMogul has landed a $10 million Series B financing, led by Foundation Capital. Existing investors Trinity Ventures and Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners also participated in the round. With a previous round of $5.4 million, TubeMogul is seeing steady support ...
Microsoft Gets Palm License. What’s it Mean for Windows Phone 7?
Microsoft wants a frictionless entry into the mobile market for Windows Phone 7 next week, at least that’s how things would appear, as the software giant buttons up a licensing agreement from Acacia for Palm, reports Ars Technica. Though unrelated, the news comes shortly after Microsoft and Motorola put their differences aside (at least some ...
Twitter is the Real Global Social Network: Report
We’re becoming quite a global market, and it seems that the mobile industry is only speeding up the process. It’s reshaping the web, while in many ways picking up where PCs left off. And the true leap into the future will be determined by the ways in which our mobile technology is incorporated into our ...
If Facebook Were Russia, Where Would Twitter Be?
Social media metrics just aren’t what they used to be. We can’t determine the success of a social networking campaign, or fully measure the influence of one outlet or another based on the basics like size, or number of hits. Consider other things, like link-sharing and blog posts. A virtual handshake is turned into a ...