BlackBerry World vs. Apple, Google Play and Amazon App Stores
There’s a new and improved app store in town, and it goes by the name of BlackBerry World. It’s not new per se, as it had been around for years, but it’s been revamped.…
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 25, 2013
RSA Positioned as Leader in Gartner Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Magic Quadrant EMC security division RSA is among the leaders in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention” this year for the fifth…
Cisco Buys Mobile Software Infrastructure Startup for $475M – Is This SDN for Mobile Networks?
Cisco shelled out nearly half a billion dollars for Intucell, Israeli developer that makes management software for telecommunications companies. The company lists AT&T and several other major U.S. carriers as customers. Intucell’s self-optimizing network…
Metrics for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) – It’s All Semantics
By Scott Lowe
I will be the first to admit that I can be kind of picky about certain things. Hey, everyone has his quirks! Although I try not to take political correctness to an extreme –…
Apple Puts a Stop to Unfair Labor Practices, Woz Embarrassed by jOBS
Have you watched Horrible Bosses? It’s a movie about three men who plot to kill their bosses, taking advice from the wrong people and scrambling to save their wayward plans. But in the end,…
This Week in the Cloud: Funding, Phone Calls and Integration
This week Puppet Labs announced that it received $30 million in funding, Panorama9 introduced a new alert system for IT departments, and Nirvanix teamed up with Intel. We also learned the specs of the…
Facebook Blocks Twitter’s Vine, U-Verse Back Online
In today’s mobile news roundup: Facebook blocks Vine from finding friends; Verizon to carry Nokia Laser later this year; U-Verse blackout ends; Samsung posts record Q4; and Lenovo eyes RIM for mobile growth. Facebook…
Bikini-Clad Debt Collectors Plot Facebook “Honey Traps”
If it just so happens that you owe someone money, and suddenly a hot, bikini-clad chick tries to add you on Facebook, you might just want to think twice before you go accepting your…
Enter The World of “Dark Data”
The name suggests something sinister, like the ultimate unstable force that could destroy the world at any moment, but Dark Data can actually do an untold amount of good if it can only be…
Investors Love Amazon AWS – Should CIOs?
Investors have been in love with Amazon this past year, and why not? The company’s market cap has soared to over $120B since it bottomed in 2009 at just over $20B, delivering very attractive…