Motorola Mobility, part of Motorola enterprise, announced today the acquisition of Zecter Inc, a developer in virtual file system technologies and media cloud computing. Zecter is known for its products ZumoCast and ZumoDrive, which optimizes the media file synchronization between PC, handsets, tablets and websites.  Motorola’s deal looks to be a media-oriented one, a strategy ...

The unification between the largest trip community database and the largest social networking platform is now tangible, thanks to TripAdvisor’s integration with Facebook’s recently launched Instant Personalization features. Following a series of improvements of the travel internet based tool, which permitted since summer time to see the Facebook friends’ recommendations for trip destinations, accommodations or ...

After the acquisition of Fluther, Twitter has been spending some extra attention to their team, which was enriched with four engineers. Over the past year, Twitter has expanded their executive team considerable.  The HR aspect is distinct from the software deal, but Twitter grasps the Fluther’s experience and talented work relations. They just raised $200 ...

Apple has announced the expected sales of the new Apple TV to reach one million units by the end of this week. The product envisages features that render, in a simple and qualitative manner, movies and TV shows and stream content from Netflix, YouTube, Flickr and MobileMe. Currently, customers are now renting and purchasing over ...

Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC have filed suit and obtained a restraining order against FilmOn, a video broadcaster, the latter having apparently transmitted programs without prior consent from the first. FilmOn’s founder, Alki David, not only denies malice involving any violation of the copyright law, but also accuses CBS of hypocrisy and viciousness since “through ...

Expected to be released at CES this coming January, Google delays the launch of its Google TV.  The prolongation affects other hi-tech manufactures such as Toshiba, LG Electronics and Sharp, which are to present their Google TV devices after the release of the new software. Insisting to present their products at CES, Vizo and Samsung ...

After the controversial refrain from Google’s acquisition proposal, Groupon is setting up its strategy, first by hunting for experienced personnel. For instance, Jason Child, the new CFO of Groupon is the former vice-president at Amazon – international business department. Jason Child’s portfolio is impressive, having spent more than 12 years in Amazon’s enterprise.  He succeeded ...

Google’s business models are under the scrutiny of European Union, after German parties and Microsoft supported companies questioned the privacy and competitive methods that the search engine giant uses in order to display the results. The New York Times reports on these additional complaints from Germany and how they affect the current investigations. The European ...

In a descriptive summary of the cloud computing landscape, it has to be mentioned the three main characteristics of the new delivering services over the internet: flexible upon demand, fractional (depending on the needs of the users) and customizable, after the client’s requirements.  This handy infographic really helps break things down (see further analysis here). ...

VM Import is the new service which will allow Amazon Web Services to import their internal data stored on hardware to the cloud. For this procedure, Amazon has teamed up with VMware, using API tools to locate the virtual machine image, and then will specify the amount of space needed on Amazon cloud’s platform.  Afterward, ...