Microsoft’s joint venture Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology Co., Ltd. and Renren Inc., the leading real name social networking internet platform in China, today made a deal to offer users a seamless integration of their respective social networking services platforms.  Shanghai MSN Network runs the online social networking business for Microsoft in China. According to ...

With Windows 8, the next big Microsoft desktop OS, will we see Windows become a true future-ready, cloud-based operating system? A recent Microsoft patent demonstrates how the OS can boot from the cloud.  Called Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage, the patent describes how storage devices with different primacies could boot the operating system through remote ...

In recently slashing prices for its TouchPad by $100 and then later again lowered the price to $99 for 16 GB and $149 for 32 GB, HP brought new life to the dying tablet with a surge of sales. But days later, HP surprised the computer world with their announcement to discontinue operations for webOS ...

FalconStor Software announced a comprehensive upgrade of its suite of storage virtualization and data protection solutions. The upgrade, Version 7, offers data solutions needed to optimize disaster recovery, legacy backup solutions, disk based backup and faster recovery of essential applications and systems. The features upgraded in version 7 include support for VMware vSphere, VMware VAAAI, ...

Libya’s web connectivity appears to be slowly coming back online after a six-month blackout, but the access was then taken back again after some hours. The state-run ISP restored the Internet connectivity for Libyan citizens early Sunday. However, local residents have complained of patchy consistency with the Internet connection coming and going. From early Sunday, ...

Graphene, the world’s slenderest and toughest material, could help shape the next generation of computers replacing silicon, widely used in today’s digital electronics chips. Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, permits flow of electrons at much higher speeds than they do in silicon and it’s amazing flexibility would help scientists design smartphones and computers. ...

SaaS startup GoodData has raised $15 million in a second round of funding, led by none other than Andreessen-Horowitz, along with other investors, Windcrest Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners and General Catalyst Partners. GoodData has now raised $28.5 million overall for its cloud-based business intelligence product. GoodData’s SaaS application runs business intelligence as a service across ...

Will 2011 will be the year of electric car? It is hard to say, but most of the electric car manufacturers are finally ready with mainstream electric vehicles powered with the ‘Go Green’ mantra.  Ford Motors is set to unveil its first fully electric sedan later in the year, and is partnering with San Jose-based solar ...

DataDirect Networks, one of the world’s biggest data storage and processing solution provider, threw out a few milestones today, touting its leadership in large scale, high capacity parallel files storage systems. The company said DataDirect is now powering more than 60 percent of the top 50 fastest computer storage solution in the world. www.top500.org produced ...

Microsoft is extending efforts on its cloud solutions, particularity for small developers and SME enterprises. In an attempt to attract developer community that runs smaller apps on its Azure platform, Microsoft, starting October 1st, decided to cut the price of extra small compute by 20 percent. Additionally, Microsoft will allocate small computing hours in simple ...