Robert Manto

Robert is a staff writer for SiliconAngle.

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Emerging Markets and Data Analytics Push Deloitte’s Highest Revenue Since 2008

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu announced  its earnings yesterday for the fiscal year 2011. Considered as one of the world’s biggest accounting and consulting firm, the company has posted its highest revenue in three years. Deloitte earned revenue of $28.8 billion which is higher than the previous year by 8.4 percent in dollars and 7.7 percent in local ...

European SMBs Embracing Mobile Business Application Services

The race amongst smartphone and tablet manufacturers has been getting tighter this year. The playing field has been characterized by long patent disputes and new mergers. Th battle has ntensified over the last few months after Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility and the move by HP to drop its WebOS devices. Google will now be ...

Low End Smartphones Show 115% Growth

Amidst the popularity of smartphones at these times, feature phones are still leading in the overall mobile phone shipments worldwide. However, that may soon change as the popularity of smartphones still continues to rise rapidly. In 2015, smartphones will surpass feature phones shipments according to the latest report released by iSuppli. The results from the ...

China Mobile Reaches 621 Million Subscribers, Sees Growth with Apple Collaboration

China Mobile Limited, the largest phone carrier in terms of subscribers worldwide, has announced that its total number of subscribers has already reached by 621.85 million as of July 2011, including 37.597 million 3G subscribers. In the month of July, 3G subscribers rose by 2.57 million while total users increased by 5.06 million. For the ...

Mobility: Remaking Entire Industries

“Mobile is remaking entire industries,” according to the results of the first annual “Technology Outlook” research report by Bluewolf, a cloud solutions provider. The report indicates the top five leading trends of 2011 which includes mobility, cloud computing, user engagement, big data and the consumerization of IT. Mobile is experiencing exponential growth due to increasing ...

Flash Storage is Gaining Ground – Reaching Mainstream Business

Addressing the need for speed, enterprises are now adopting and deploying solid state storage to rapidly access transactional data, the cloud and virtual desktop infrastructures. Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) is a specialist storage analysis and research organization.  In recent research it reveals the impressive growth of solid state drives (SSD) and high-speed memory. The report, “Solid State Drives ...

RIM Launches BlackBerry Management Center for Small Businesses

Research in Motion has launched a free cloud service that would allow small and medium businesses (SMB) to centrally manage multiple BlackBerry devices and provide protection for business content saved on the devices. The new service is called the BlackBerry Management Center (BMC) which is an alternative to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). The cloud-based BlackBerry ...

Microsoft’s Skype Purchase Biggest Deal of Second Quarter

The Microsoft purchase for Skype stood as the top deal last quarter, helping contribute to a doubling in merger and acquisition activity with the most activity seen since the dot-com era. The deals showed the global power of the latest technology innovation wave with purchases focusing on cloud computing, smart mobility, internet video, the smart ...

Trend Micro Announces Earnings with a Focus on Services

Trend Micro announced yesterday its earnings results for the second quarter of 2011. The company posted net sales of $297 million and net income of $48 million. “Amidst media reports of multiple data breaches, Trend Micro expanded its real-time threat management solutions portfolio with the introduction of Trend Micro™ Threat Intelligence Manager and a major ...

Box Tops List for Mobile Collaboration

With mobile collaboration gaining traction this year, Forrester Research Inc. recently gave a rundown of the top vendors in this emerging sector. California- based company, Box, tops Forrester’s list along with other 12 mobile collaboration vendors that qualified through Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation. The 13 vendors are ranked based on their commitment to tablets and smartphone ...