After having been accused, and in some instances charged, for disregarding the privacy of its users, Google and Facebook are now showing signs of having changed their attitude and policies on this matter.  Along with eBay, Dailymotion, Yahoo et al, all gathered under an organization entitled ASIC. The  ASIC will file a complaint against the ...

By refreshing the working team with six high-level sales and marketing executives, which hail from important companies such as Microsoft and Google, mobile ad network Mojiva will have now new forces to compete with established, independent mobile ad networks such as Google, Apple and Millennial Media, in what’s become a very crowded market. Mojiva is ...

Data Center Systems will have Chris Crosby sitting on the CEO chair, leaving Digital Realty Trust, a prominent provider of wholesale data centers. Data Center Systems, a company offering cable solutions and fiber management system for advances data centers, rose from the ranks with excellent services delivered to customers with ‘20 or more director class ...

Violation of copyright law comes again into spotlight. A few weeks ago we covered Android developers’ inquietude over Android’s attitude towards pirated games available in the marketplace. Google did not seem too bothered on the growing numbers of pirated games added up in the marketplace that not only violate copyright law, but also increase the ...

This week cloud partnerships seem to be all the rage.  The latest strategic partnership features Openet and  Juniper Networks, and will result in reselling Openet’s policy management and charging platforms as part of Juniper’s MobileNext solution. The two partners will optimize network resources to increase visibility and control over network resources in real time. “Openet’s ...

SugarCRM recently teamed up with IBM and the results of the ‘coupling’ are multifold; after SugarCRM’s acquisition of iExtensions CRM from IEnterprises announced at SugarCon, SugarCRM’s annual conference, Sugar 6 users can now schedule and host web meetings from within their CRM platform, new connectors for IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Suite and IBM Websphere Cast ...

Microsoft’s platform for app development in starting to grow on developers, as recent figures indicate that the Windows Phone 7 app toolkit has been downloaded by 1.5 million times.  Microsoft is catching up on the number of available apps, currently having 11,500 in comparison with Apple’s 350,000 and Google’s 150,000. The toolkit’s 1.5 million downloads ...

EMC announced today it would locate global R&D operation in Cork, Ireland, extending the workforce of 1,900 employees the company has in the Irish city, the first step being taken into this direction in 2008 by EMC. The company informed on the new project, EMC Research Europe, in partnership with certain European universities, trying to ...

After having filed for bankruptcy in 2009, Nortel will now receive $900 million on the patent portfolio from Google. As a response to the current trend in the industry, that of taking each opportunity to sue competitors for patent infringement, Google is now taking all precautions in order to prevent losing money on such lawsuit ...

After having injected hundreds of millions of dollars in Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and not only, Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies is now betting its money on 360buy. Digital Sky Technologies sees potential in the expanding Chinese market, currently covering over 450 million internet users. The expected growth numbers circle around 27 percent a year, to ...