Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking a step closer toward its promise of offering a public cloud service by providing early access to select testers. HP announced on Wednesday that it has launched its HP Cloud Services private beta program. The company says it has made early access available for users to test and provide input on ...

Motorola has officially announced that its 4G LTE-equipped DROID Bionic will be available from Verizon Wireless starting September 8.  It will set you back $299.99 with a two-year customer agreement.  This power-packed Android phone features a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4.3-inch qHD display, 8MP autofocus camera with flash and 1080p video capture.  It ...

Over the weekend, a few reports popped up that all seem to suggest one thing: The iPhone 5 launch is around the corner. Of course, as it’s customary to remind everyone, rumors are rumors, which is why they’re called rumors. Got it? Several customers may perhaps be disappointed in the iPhone 5 release date shifting ...

We’ve been covering the VMworld 2011 since the event started on August 29th.  We even had a live coverage via #theCube.  The said event was hosted by our very own John Furrier, CEO and Founder of SiliconAngle together with Dave Vellante, CEO and founder of Wikibon.  VMworld is an annual conference for IT professionals, focusing on virtual ...

Last July, OpenFeint, a mobile social gaming platform, launched a newsfeed service called GameFeed that teases gamers with the accomplishments of their friends.  GameFeed is inherently social and also competitive, posting running leaderboards for all to see, and allowing gamers using different mobile platforms to compete against one another.  OpenFeint is now releasing an SDK for GameFeed, ...

During Samsung’s keynote speech at the IFA tech conference in Berlin today, the company introduced what it is calling a new category of products, slotted between pocketable smartphones and not-so-pocketable tablets. Leading this new category is the Galaxy Note, which features an enormous, 5.3-inch display and believe it or not, a stylus. Samsung says the ...

Facebook wants to know “what’s on your mind?”  Twitter asks “what’s happening?” But that’s getting old already.  The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “where are you?”  Services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, and Loopt want you to use your smartphone to answer. The technology at the heart of this trend is ...

IBM has some new software designed to help organizations embrace social networking using the broadest range of mobile devices. Yesterday, IBM launched three updated mobile applications designed to help businesses that use its enterprise social networking package, Connections.  Customers can download the software from all major app stores, which include Apple iOS, Android and Blackberry.  Connections allows gaining ...

Citrix Systems has acquired cloud.com in a deal which will boost its position in the cloud computing market. The deal also underscores the growing role of open source software in building and deploying cloud platforms. Cloud.com provides open source software to create cloud computing platforms for services providers, providing Citrix with an infrastructure as a ...

Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, has resigned as CEO from Apple today, after a remarkable career.  With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the history of business: he single-handedly upended the power structure of a major industry.  In the US, before the iPhone, the carriers (Verizon, AT&T, ...