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HP & IBM Face-off Over Flash Based Storage
HP Discover 2013 is on its last day and Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman is in attendance to provide us the latest happenings at the event. Some of the announcements Hewlett-Packard made include the HP Public Cloud which runs on the newly announced HP CloudOS which is a comprehensive private/hybrid cloud system running on HP ...
Galaxy S5 Goes Metallic, HTC One + iPhone Get Mini
Samsung has unveiled another iteration of the its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. First there was the S4 mini, which sported less powerful chips and lower display resolution, then came the S4 zoom, a fusion of camera and phone, as it features a physical lens that zooms in and out so you can take better ...
#Facebook Hashtags Actually Work Now
Good news for Facebook users who are fond of using Twitter-style hashtags on posts – those hashtags will actually be supported from here on in. Yep, you read that right, hashtags on Facebook now make sense, and will no longer just be some random words preceded by “#.” Many Facebook users have been using hashtags ...
Is Storage Antiquated? IBM Edge Recap : 2013
IBM Edge2013 is in full swing at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman is in attendance, dropping in on this morning’s Live NewsDesk Show to detail the sentiment at this year’s event. Flash storage takes the cake for buzzworthy topics at IBM Edge, but the question is whether or ...
Zuckerberg “Poking in the dark” for Ad Strategy : Facebook Weakness Starting to Show
A month after Facebook celebrated its one-year IPO anniversary, the social network executives met up with an “angry” mob of investors at its first shareholders meeting. CEO Mark Zuckerberg knows that the primary concern is the company’s falling stocks. Currently, Facebook’s shares are 40 percent below its IPO price, and investors are clearly unhappy. “We ...
Death of Windows XP Can’t Come Soon Enough for HP
When a service or product is nearing its end, people are often bummed about it. But that’s not so in the case of Hewlett-Packard, which is getting pretty psyched up about one Microsoft product that’s soon to be retired. For HP, the death of Windows XP can’t come soon enough… Microsoft announced that by April ...
MacBook Air Sacrifices Retina Display For Longer Battery Life
Those wanting to see new Apple products at the WWDC 2013 were not disappointed when the fruity company revealed two new MacBook Airs and a preview of the new Mac Pro. The New 11-Inch & 13-Inch MacBook Air The MacBook Air now comes in two sizes: 11-inches and 13-inches, priced at $999 and $1,099 ...
iRadio vs Pandora vs Spotify : Music Streaming Showdown
Apple unveiled iTunes Radio this week, a free Internet radio service, that, as Apple puts it, “features over 200 stations and an incredible catalog of music from the iTunes Store, combined with features only iTunes can deliver,” at the WWDC 2013. Though it’s officially called iTunes Radio, we’ll be calling it iRadio in this comparison ...
iRadio Price vs. Spotify + Pandora : What You Need to Know About iTunes Radio
At the Worldwide Developers Conference yesterday, Apple unveiled its revamped iOS with features that resemble the Android platform, so much so that one of our Producers Zamora says Android users will feel “very, very familiar” using the new interface. Included in the announcement is iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service, that, as Apple puts ...
Watch Live: HP Discover 2013 Hints at SDN, Flash and Open Source Future
The stage is set for HP Discover 2013 at the Venetian|Palazzo meeting center and Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas which will kick off tomorrow, June 11, 2013, and will run through the 13th. We’ll be broadcasting live from theCUBE for the entire event, so be sure to tune into SiliconANGLE.tv for all-day coverage, featuring ...