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Google Android Market Gets Movies and Books, Looking More Like iTunes
Google’s Android Market, which was released last year, has suffered much criticism with their security and design, and to add insult to injury, the unbearable comparison to Apple’s iTunes Store. So with much research, upgrading and revamping over the months, Google presents the public with the new and improved Android Market, available for phones running ...
Microsoft Walks on Clouds – Windows Intune Takes IT Virtual
Cloud computing is really something that companies and investors are looking into these days, and this week delivers a couple prime examples of this growing trend. Citrix just acquired Cloud.com, with a remaining focus on leveraging the services of OpenStack. rPath also shows its support for OpenStack, launching the OpenStack Compute Appliance, which will permit users to configure ...
HP Goes the iPhone Route – TouchPad 4G Exclusive to AT&T
As the start of the school year draws near, companies are using this fact to reel in consumers with back-to-school deals. HP announced that its TouchPad 4G, which features a 1.5GHz processor, 32 GB internal storage, integrated GPS and the built-in wireless mobile capabilities, will be exclusively available at AT&T. “Consumers and small business customers ...
Was VMware vSphere Launch Overshadowed By Citrix’s Latest Buy?
Citrix took the spotlight today with their announcement of the Cloud.com acquisition, but VMware is shrugging it off, as they have their own major announcements, like the unveiling of a new software. vSphere Storage Appliance is a new software product that will bring the rich business continuity and automated resource management capabilities of VMware vSphere to small and ...
Citrix Bets On Infrastructure 2.0 with Cloud.com Buy
Citrix has just announced their acquisition of Cloud.com, one of the leading cloud-computing providers for public and private cloud infrastructures. Cloud.com is known for providing services to Nokia, GoDaddy and Zynga. This may be the most important acquisition that Citrix has made in recent months, especially with the dawning of the cloud era. “Cloud.com is ...
HP webOS: Restructuring May Just Be the Missing Element
Consumers are bombarded with the nonstop release of smartphones and tablets from different companies. The public is now being more critical before buying any of these gadgets. More consumers are considering the specs of the gadgets, rather than aesthetics alone. We all know that Apple’s iPad is the thing to beat in terms of tablets, ...
Juniper Networks Gains New Partner, Reshuffles Top Execs
With Juniper Networks benefiting from the news of their $17 million funding of Contendo, as well as the recent partnership with OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games and applications, it seems as though Juniper’s recent financial troubles may come to an end. Aside from these very formidable outcomes, people seem to be jumping ...
Apple Officially Wins Nortel Patent. Antitrust Suit from Google to Follow?
2011 seems to be the ‘Year of Acquisitions’ as more and more companies are acquiring startups, bankrupt firms or established players in the industry. This level of consolidation has spread across industries, leaving companies like Nortel to the wolves. The company sold its wide portfolio of patents to the highest bidder, and created a bit ...
Cisco is Ready to Battle, But at Whose Expense?
Cisco may be getting the thumbs up on their Cius Tablet with their AppHQ and the recently unveiled Lexmark’s Mobile Print Application, which will enable easy-to-use mobile printing, but that can’t overshadow the fact that Cisco is facing a huge lay-off, letting go of up to 5,000 employees. The lay-off will consist of employees willing to ...
Some Investors See Opportunity in Murdoch’s BSkyB Saga, Others Still Shaky
With news about the hacking scandal surrounding News of the World to acquire sensitive information, Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB deal is now being scrutinized. People are feeling queasy about investing in something that could possibly be acquired by a disgraced company. British Sky Broadcasting is the most profitable British satellite company, and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg urges ...
