Mellisa Tolentino
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$6M DataSift Funding to be Invested in Twitter
Real-time information is the hottest thing in the market nowadays. It can make or break you, especially if you use real-time data for business purposes. So where do people get their real-time info? Believe it or not, Twitter. Yes, we already know Twitter is a hot commodity, and there are plenty of startups that recognize ...
Copyright Alerts: The Solution To End Piracy?
Software, movies, music, applications, games… You name it, and you can find it on the web, oftentimes for free. You’d think that in this day and age, big companies earn gazillions of dollars with their web and media products, but in reality they aren’t. One reason behind their dilemma, they say, online piracy. The battle ...
QLogic: Soon to Announce Q1 Fiscal Year 2012
Over the past few months, QLogic has been on a roll. Though the company is mostly known for fibre and infrastructure, they turned heads when they came up with the convergence of cloud computing and communication. But as the saying goes, ‘don’t forget where you came from’, they are still sticking to their repertoire and ...
LulzSec Legacy: Hackers Released 17k E-mails and Passwords
Almost 17,000 e-mails and passwords were released by the Connexion Hack Team, which they stated to have acquired randomly. The group did not release information indicating from which sites they obtained their list. Dear Internetz, We are the Connexion Hack Team. We are here to say that we are releasing approx. 16,959 emails and passwords. These are random and do ...
Business Has No Business on Google+
News broke earlier about the removal of non-user profiles (i.e. businesses, universities, NGO, teams, brands, organizations, etc.) in Google+ until a specialized service has been officially released. The company has asked businesses to hold off on creating consumer profiles for now, and will start doing tests with “non-user entities” soon, which will be available for ...
Is IBM Downgrading? Clients Look Beyond Big Blue for Data Centers.
IBM’s Newton center is soon to be closing, but a newer, $80 million-state-of-the-art center was launched by IBM to replace Newton center. Though there’s already a better replacement planned, two IBM data customers have already opted to look for other data services provider. BNZ – Bank of New Zealand, has chosen Datacom as their new provider, and ...
eBay Goes Deep into Mobile Payments, Acquires Zong
Currently, everyone is glued to their smartphones. Not just to keep in touch with others, but also to do things like online shopping. Most of us have either our credit/debit cards or PayPal to use for our online shopping, but there are so many risks to this as there are so many bogus online shops, ...
HTC Goes Gaga for Graphics
Can you still remember what it was like playing video games about 15-20 years ago? Yeah, when pixelated characters were dominating your TV screen. Today’s graphics have greatly evolved into characters that are so lifelike you’d have to sometimes ask if it’s a real person or CGI (i.e. PS3’s Batman: Arkham Asylum). Graphics have also ...
Hack Attacks are Equal Opportunity Assaults
Attacks from hackers seem to be progressing along the same lines as modern technology. Over the past few months, more companies are being hacked either to gather account information or just to create chaos. Remember when Sony’s Playstation Network was attacked, leaving and a lot of user accounts compromised? Over the 4th of July weekend, ...
Pillar Acquisition: A Major Bust?
Days after Oracle released a statement saying that the company will not be making any acquisitions anytime soon due to the fact that Oracle is focusing more on internal growth rather than acquisitions, they purchased Pillar Data Systems – a private technology storage company majorly owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Much like with their ...