Dell has revealed that it will be increasing its pressure on data centers, which, with its clouds Business Server, the company expects to generate revenues and stimulate growth. After having lost recently on a deal to acquire data center technology firm 3Par, it appears that Dell which lost to HP, has learned a valuable lesson. ...

Evernote, the popular note-taking and storage platform, recently published a much-awaited (and much-needed) update, Evernote 2.0. The upgrade has been talked about as a major product enhancement of the company to date. It is also a nod to the rapid growth of the Android platform that companies are increasingly polishing their respective platforms. Among the ...

Google is shutting off Facebook’s access to its contact data; unless the latter will opt for reciprocity. Just recently, Google made a slight yet momentous modification to their Google Contacts API terms of service. It technically prevents Facebook, and other similar parties, from using it to improve their friends’ database. Up to the present, Facebook prevents a user ...

WordPress has just recently announced a gigantic milestone for its mobile apps with 1 million happy users of all its mobile platforms, marking an era of mobile blogging. The company has launched BlackBerry and Android apps since the first WordPress mobile app was built for iPhone in 2008 allowing users to blog straight from their mobile phones. All ...

Just after the relaunch of News Corp titles as paid digital products, Times Newspaper digital director  Garter Sandhu decided to leave the company. According to sources, although presently on garden leave, he will be joining a new company in February 2011. It can be recalled that Sandhu was brought from News Corp’s Star TV channel ...

In order to attract and retain customers, Amazon.com has been cutting prices of its web services including its Simple Storage Service (S3) for as low as $0.01 per 1000 requests for PUT, COPY, POST or LIST requests, and per 10,000 requests for GET and all other requests. S3 is Amazon.com’s popular data storage service where ...

Skype is coming out with a $1 billion IPO in 2011, contrary to what was much anticipated end-of-this-year announcement, reports Reuters.  About $100 million is expected by the Luxembourg-based internet telephony giant from this initial project offering. Tony Bates, a former senior vice president of Cisco Systems, was declared as Skype’s chief executive in October, ...

As digital versions of what used to be bought and read papers continue to invade publishing popularity, News Corp. announced that it has attracted 105,000 paying customers since it began charging for access to their Web sites in June. This number, which includes regular subscribers as well as those who just dropped by to check ...

Amazon introduced a new and more popular way of sending Amazon.com Gift Cards to Facebook buddies. By simply connecting one’s Facebook account on Amazon.com, a customer can already make a personalized gift card to be delivered on a chosen date straight to the friend’s Facebook Wall. The entire process can be accessed here. “We think ...

Logitech, working its way back to the forefront of consumer interest, introduced the world’s first solar keyboard, the $80 Logitech K750. It is something that has created quite a hush as the holiday shopping season nears. Only 1/3-inch thick, the keyboard is powered by its built-in solar panels. It can be used indoors, after being ...