During 2008 Qype managed to raise funds totaling €8 million, obtaining another €6.5 million this year–half of the sum is provided by Vodafone. This move translates into Vodafone’s intentions of launching Qype in its main European markets – UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands and Ireland, raising doubts about Qype’s future as a single brand. ...

Although the court case is officially over, SAP and Oracle continue to refer to each other in not so friendly terms outside the courthouse. Oracle accuses SAP not only of starting to act unlawfully four years ago by illicitly downloading software from Oracle, but also calling out SAP for officially denying it for three and ...

Quest Software is taking advantage of some key players in the cloud market to offer an updated version of vFoglight, the firm’s solution for application visibility and virtualization.   vFoglight 6.5’s release brings an enhanced automation of virtual infrastructures, simplifying the  workload on virtual servers.  Hence, the cost to maintain the efficiency of performance management ...

Although Blockbuster was called for a bankruptcy case in September, the company is back on track with a $20 million advertising campaign, intended to remind competitor NetFlix, and the public, that the company is still alive and voracious (I use that term loosely). The move was considered to be forced by Netflix’s viral presence on ...

In just few weeks after Galaxy Tab’s launch, Samsung reports sales of 600,000 pieces worldwide. Targeting iPad users and other potential tablet customers, the initial figures indicate a good welcoming from the market. A few things have to be mentioned: Samsung did not market the Galaxy Tab nearly as aggressively as Apple did with the ...

The recently published “GreenList 500” is topped with IBM’s supercomputers, which are used in different areas of activity from studying astronomy to pharmaceutical research. IBM is the leading manufacturer for green devices, as it covers almost half of the first top 100 positions. Blue Gene, the exponent of the next generations of computers is announced ...

Google’s been under fire for its Street Views data collection methods, with an especially damning backlash in Europe  David Smith, the deputy information commissioner in the UK reportedly reassured that no information collected “accidentally” by Google has been leaked. Moreover, his position seems to protect Google from being fined, because the potential distress caused my ...

Viacom made public their reaction against Google TV, making a common front together with Fox, ABC, CBS or NBC. Its protest against the new form of television distribution via web browsers is not seen with good eyes at the cable conglomerate, bringing a bit of deja vu to its relationship with Google. Comedy Central, MTV ...

2.2 billion dollars will count the cash transaction between Novell  and Attachmate Corporation. Today Attachmate investment group confirmed the acquisition of Novell shares at $6.10. Also, Novell signed an official agreement over the concurrent sale of $450 million in cash of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, which is a consortium organized by ...

OpenFeint and Apple’s Game Center, social online game services, were created after the model introduced by Microsoft’s Xbox Live. OpenFeint came on the scene and attracted an enormous number of online gamers, while Apple lacked its own social platform so that ‘users could play multiplayer games with their friends, discover and recommend new games to ...