Lenovo Eying Up NEC’s Smartphone Unit
Lenovo’s determination to buy up a mobile phone company shows no signs of abating, or at least it doesn’t if all of these rumors flying around are anything to go by. Having been linked…
The Cloud War Rages On: How Amazon is Changing the Industry
Amazon’s successful expansion into the traditional enterprise market has triggered a massive response from the data center vendors that once monopolized this space. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante discussed how this competition…
Microsoft Increases Transparency with New Patent Tracker Tool
About a month ago, Microsoft’s general counsel and executive vice president Brad Smith made a pledge to publish the details of each and everyone one of the patents held by the company, so that…
Facebook Phone Will Finally be Revealed on April 4th
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: Facebook phone will be revealed on April 4; Amazon acquires Goodreads; Windows 8 tweaked for smaller tablet compatibility; Softbank and Sprint to abandon Huawei products; and Apple…
Bitcoin Under Attack? Dwolla & Mt. Gox Both Hit With DDoS Attacks Overnight
Another day, another DDoS attack. This time round, it’s the turn of alternative online payments provider Dwolla, which saw its website taken offline for a brief period of time. The site has since come…
Social Media Fallout: Adria Richards and #Donglegate
By Kyt Dotson
It’s the era of Internet drama as much as it’s the Information Age; that series of tubes presents a whole new way for rumors and recriminations to spread and it provides a platform for…
Magic Quadrant Sapped of Its Powers – Storage Market Has a Complex Future
We’re caught in a transition where the datacenter is concerned. The enterprise is reworking datacenter infrastructure from the inside-out, shaking up traditional concepts around software and automation. The same transition must take place for…
NetApp and Equinix, Unveil Private Cloud Solution for AWS
Amazon is putting the heat on traditional data center vendors with its quest to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the enterprise IT market. In view of the company’s success in accomplishing…
Google Makes Patent Pledge, Promises It Won’t Sue Open-Source Developers
Google has come out with an interesting promise that might just be the start of something big. It’s made a public pledge not to sue any user, developer or distributor of open-source software on…
Cloud Wars Episode II: Return of the VMware – Breaking Analysis
According to recent reports, PayPal is abandoning VMware for OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that has picked up a lot of steam in just a couple of years. Senior Analyst Stu Miniman appeared on…