Microsoft is once again doing what it is known for: spending big bucks on marketing its products.  And this time, it’s the company’s new Windows Phone that’s being promoted. Reportedly, Microsoft and its partners are spending a whopping $200 million to marketing Windows Phone devices to U.S. customers in 2012. This is perhaps one of ...

Microsoft has recently announced that it is enabling Linux on Windows Azure, and working on allowing its customers to make virtual machines (VMs) persistent on its Windows Azure platform. This means that users will be able to create virtual Linux servers on Azure without losing data. Though Azure already provides support for VMs, the company ...

Mu Sigma, a leading provider of decision sciences and analytics services, has raised an additional $108 million in a series C round of funding. The fresh funds have brought Mu Sigma’s total investment to $150 million. The company will apply the capital towards helping its dozens of Fortune 500 clients make sense of the vast ...

Cisco has had quite a time this year overcoming layoffs and massive restructuring, but that’s no reason for the networking company to take any lip from its competitors. Hoping to prove they’re not lagging behind anyone in the industry, especially the rival business Brocade, Cisco is pitching its Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to compete with ...

iTriage, a leading consumer healthcare technology, has teamed up with Microsoft’s HealthVault personal healthcare record service, popularly known as PHR, for its iPhone mobile application. There are over 3 million users of iTriage application, who use it for viewing information on symptoms, diseases, measures, medications, and accessing a countrywide directory of medical providers. This connection between ...

So far we have been hearing and discussing about Big Data only, but the next big thing is sorting it all out. Data is everywhere and always has been, but now we’re able to collect, store and process it all.  It’s in your smartphone, your car, home, tablet, your digital camera, and even GPS devices. ...

A recent report from BrightEdge reveals that Google+ page creation has increased at a rate of over 50 percent month-over-month.  And as hoped, Google+ is becoming a promising network for businesses.  Within a month, page creation for world’s top 100 brands jumped from 61 percent to 77 percent, and the number of people in circles ...

Microsoft is looking to file a plea in court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit after the jury failed to reach a decision. This lawsuit was filed by Novell seven years ago in which it claimed that Microsoft used its reputation and position in the computer operating systems market to harm Novell’s desktop applications business. ...

It seems that patent infringement litigation has become a common thing for Google. After Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and eBay, British Telecom (BT) is the next to file a case against Google. BT is the fifth largest public traded company that has filed a patent infringement court case against Google, and said that its resulting patents ...

Apple launched its iTunes music and movie store around 12 years ago, and ever since, its fans have been waiting for its arrival in Latin America.  The good news is that the iTunes Store has finally gone live in Brazil and 15 other Latin American countries, as the region’s consumer digital content market takes off. ...