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Cloud Foundry Cements IBM & EMC’s Commitment to Open Source #IBMPivotal
IBM and Pivotal, the EMC spin-off, just announced a groundbreaking new alliance to develop the Cloud Foundry Platform – an open platform-as-a-service that presents a choice of clouds, developer frameworks and application services. The pair have also began collaborating on the technology needed to enable programming languages or frameworks to be deployed on the Cloud ...
Microsoft Rushing Its Reorganization, Not Expert Enough for Smart Device Market
Last week, Microsoft announced its fourth quarter earnings for fiscal year 2013 which ended last June 30. The software company reported annual revenue, operating income, and diluted earnings per share were at $77.85 billion, $26.76 billion, and $2.58 per share with a $900 million charge, or a $0.07 per share impact, related to Surface RT ...
How Google’s New Cloud Storage Feature is Helping Developers Move Data Faster
Google announced new features to its Cloud Storage service, making it easier to manage objects, and faster to access and upload data. The search giant introduced Object Lifecycle Management, which allows users to configure auto-deletion policies for your objects and can be used Object Versioning to limit the number of older versions of your objects ...
Tresata Relaunch Shifts Focus to Monetize Big Data
Big Data-as-a-Service analytics company Tresata recently announced their newest strategy, branding and application suite with a re-launched website. Abhishek Mehta, Tresata founder, explains that the “big refocus on our relaunch is around this core concept that we have is to monetize Big Data. The whole activity in this space for a very long time we ...
Fusion-io + Open Source : Drive New Flash-Aware Marketplace
The O’Reilly OSCON 2013 is in full swing this week in Portland, Oregon and will continue until Friday July 26. OSCON is an open source convention that is all about how the close partnership between business and the open source community is building the future. It is where developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors come together ...
The Ubuntu Edge vs Samsung Galaxy S4 vs IPhone 5 vs Nokia Lumia 1020
If you wanted a computer in your pocket, you’d probably think that by buying the latest and most expensive smartphone around that’s exactly what you’d be getting, simply because it allows you to do almost everything you can on a computer. But in truth, that’s really not the case because as we all know, even ...
5 Ga-Ga Gadgets for the Royal Baby : Even Kate Middleton Will Drool
Hear ye! Hear ye! The Royal Baby has been born! It’s a boy! That’s the scenario one might have seen, had William and Kate’s baby been born in the Middle Ages, complete with the trumpets and a herald yelling at the top of his lungs, in the middle of the town, shouting the announcement for ...
Investors See a Second Chance for Facebook’s Ecosystem? Feature Phones + Developers
Facebook is set to announce its second quarter financial results this Wednesday and investors may finally have something to look forward to, according to recent data from Adobe’s research efforts. A recent Adobe report states that Facebook’s News Feed advertising scheme is paying off, as its desktop click-through rates (CTR) is 14 times greater than ...
Apple Testing Bigger Screens for iPhone and iPad
As September draws near, rumors regarding Apple’s new iDevices are coming in thick and fast. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple has asked its display suppliers for prototypes of screens larger than four inches and another smaller than 13 inches when measured diagonally. Currently, the iPhone 5 has a 4-inch screen ...
UK’s David Cameron Launches “War on Porn”, But Can He Win?
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is waging war against online pornography by demanding Internet Service Providers block such content automatically. In a letter leaked to the BBC last week, the PM is asking the ISPs to, instead of providing subscribers with “active choice +” – the ability to opt in filters – to turn those ...