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New Instagram Video vs. Vine : Longer, Safer + Filters
At a press event today, Facebook unveiled Video for Instagram. Yup, the rumor is true and you can already start going crazy creating video clips on Instagram. And yes, it’s competing directly with Twitter’s Vine. So what does Video for Instagram have that Vine doesn’t? First off, videos are longer. Instagram users can take 3 ...
Microsoft’s Not Buying Nokia, It Doesn’t Need To
Rumors of Microsoft making a bid for Nokia’s handset business have once again resurfaced, but this time, it’s highly unlikely that anything will come of it. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, sources stated that Nokia and Microsoft had originally made significant progress on an acquisition deal, but now the deal is ...
Yahoo’s Plan To Free Up Old Email IDs Is A Huge Risk
Last week, Yahoo announced that it plans to free up thousands of apparently ‘inactive’ email accounts so other Yahoo users and prospective new ones would have a chance at grabbing a user name that’s more personalized. The idea is simple enough – rather than being forced to sign up as John_Smith00730097989834@yahoo.com, you could just use ...
Tom Reilly Named Cloudera CEO, Google Offers Mail-In Backup – NewsDesk Daily Roundup
Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Wednesday June 19, 2013 here’s your SiliconANGLE daily round-up. Google Offers Mail-In Backup Google is introducing a new service that allows developers to mail-in their hard drives to be hosted on Google’s Cloud. For a flat rate of eighty-dollars per drive, Google will take any sized hard drive ...
HBO GO Lands on Apple TV : Here’s What You Need to Know
If you’re a Game of Thrones fan and missed watching the brutal Red Wedding episode and the finale of Season 3, and you have an Apple TV, it’s not too late to catch up. Apple has announced that it will be adding five new content providers to Apple TV to deliver more programming to its ...
Hadoop Summit 2012 Recap: Vendors and Technology Igniting Big Data
Hadoop Summit North America 2013 is in a week. Before we get a chance to see what has been happening in the world of Hadoop, let’s take a look back at what transpired at last year’s conference. 8.5 out of 10–the rating SiliconANGLE CEO and founder John Furrier gave last year’s event. It was sold ...
CIA Gives Amazon Web Services its Seal of Approval
IBM’s efforts to thwart the Amazon-CIA partnership have gone out the window. If you’re not in the loop, the CIA previously awarded a contract to Amazon to provide it with cloud computing services. IBM wasn’t too impressed, promptly stepped up and filed a complaint to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) stating that the CIA ...
Kim Dotcom Rages as Megaupload Files Wiped Clean by Leaseweb
It’s been more than a year since Megaupload was taken down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its leader, Kim Dotcom arrested. Dotcom has now recovered and is managing a new file sharing site that it claims is protected from the FBI’s reach. Megaupload might be history by now, but users of the service ...
Mike Olson’s Legacy: Cloudera CEO Swap Signals Big Data’s Mass Appeal
Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop, announced a shake-up in its executive lineup this week, starting from the top. Cloudera CEO Mike Olson is being replaced by Tom Reilly, former CEO of security company ArcSight. Olson will now serve as Cloudera’s Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Board ...
Google’s Search Carousel Now Available for US Desktop Users
In a blog post on Google+, the search giant announced that Google Search carousel will now be available for desktop users in the US. The Search carousel feature was introduced in the Google Search app for iPads and other tablets last December, and features a horizontal grid that displays businesses close to your location such ...