Today, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, The McGraw-Hill companies and Wipro announced their partnership in developing mConnect, an open-standard mobile learning platform, a technical solution aimed at narrowing the skills gap in emerging markets. To start, the solution will be implemented in Asia and afterwards it will be extended on the African ...

QLogic announced today the certification of its 3200 Series 10GbE intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series 10GbE converged network adapters (CNAs) and their availability in HP ProLiant ML and DL rackmount and tower servers.  These products were created to address the increasingly complex requirements of virtualized data centers, cloud service providers and the converged enterprise. ...

According to an article from Hollywood Reporter, Darius Kazemi, Blue Fang Games analyst, announced today that the company is developing the software for Oregon Trail and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, two of the most popular games during the 70’s and the 80’s. Both games will be published by The Learning Company and ...

In November 2010, shareholder Ernesto Espinoza sued Hewlett-Packard over access to corporate documents with information on Hurd’s private relationship with former marketing contractor Jodie Fisher and his $53 million award on behalf of the company’s board members. According to an analysis article in Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard’s lawyers stated today in court that Espinoza lacks a proper ...

Demand Media, a leading online media company, launched its IPO today, and its shares rose immediately on the New York Stock Exchange under the DMD symbol, bringing in $151.3 million in gross proceeds. Shares were trading at $22.94 about two-and-a-half hours into trading, after touching a high of $25. The company stated that the proceeds ...

Apps are starting to reach a benchmark peak in 2011, as analysts foresee $15 billion in revenue for the apps market.  Thanks to the 17 billion + downloads, the industry looks promising for all parties involved.  These figures are to be exceeded if Google knocks the in-app billing into shape. Operators, as well, have ended ...

The 9-months old Google Apps Marketplace is adopting over 20 educational apps from 19 vendor apps, such as learning management systems (the LearnBoost gradebook or the K-12 LMS Haiku for example), bibliographic tools like EasyBid, and learning aids (such as Grockit and DreamBox). The new apps are integrated with a school’s Google Apps for Education ...

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is the new service from Amazon Web Services, looking to simplify the whole procedure around building an in-house email solution and operating a third-party email service. The service can be used by business on a free trial (valid for Amazon EC2 customers) and afterwards pay moderate sums for the ...

Google has given $100 million in stock and options as an award to CEO Eric Schmidt, following his giving up the CEO role he has been filling in the last 10 years. The award would be given on the 2nd of February and would vest over four years. Schmidt’s position will be filled in by ...

Hewlett-Packard is allowed to proceed with its investigation over former CEO Mark Hurd’s departure, according to a federal court decision. The judge halted the lawsuit that prompted Mark Hurd from being investigated for having had a personal relationship with a contractor and for receiving $53 million in severance. HP’s former chairman and CEO Mark Hurd ...