Google Open Sources Collaborative Cloud IDE Technology
A bit of bad news: After seven years, Google is shuttering its Atlanta engineering offices, and with it goes the projects that the developers in residence were working on. But out of the ashes…
EMC Partners with Purdue University to Solve Big Data Problems
EMC has formed a new partnership with Purdue University that will provide students and staff an impressive 100 gigabytes of free storage. The move is part of a larger five-year initiative between EMC and…
Social Network for Developers – GitHub Raises Monster Series A Round Funding $100m
By John Furrier
GitHub, a site that was built by and for coders, has finally broken down and took their first round of venture financing. The total raised for GitHub was $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz. This…
The New Troublesome Cisco Cloud – How to Get Rid Of It?
By Isha Suri
If you are an owner of any of these two of Cisco home router selections–EA4500 and EA2700, I believe you must have experienced the latest update to the embedded software on your Cisco router.…
TV Price Fixing Suit Concludes with another $2M in Fines
Back in 2009 a lawsuit was filed against no less than seven different manufacturers of LCD monitors over alleged price fixing. In 2011 a court ruled that these companies have to pay $553 million in…
Emulex Pays Broadcom $58 Million to Settle Core of Patent Lawsuit
The disagreement between Broadcom and competitor Emulex reached a major milestone over the weekend, when the latter agreed to pay $58 million in order to take the fibre channel patents listed in the suit…
VMware Reveals Competing Multi-Node Big Data Infrastructure Systems
Google and VMware take very different approaches to solving the problem of rapidly provisioning large numbers of virtual nodes for production Big Data systems, says Wikibon CTO and leading Big Data Analyst David Floyer…
Lockheed Martin’s Cyber Security VP Curt Aubley Talks About Cloud Security at Intel Forecast 2012
By Kyt Dotson
The adoption of cloud in the consumer market and especially the high-profile enterprise market has seen some inhibition, especially surrounding security. John Furrier brought Curt Aubley, Lockheed Martin VP & CTO Cyber Security &…
Internet Doomsday Bust: DNSChanger is Dead and We’re Still Connected
At 12:01 EDT today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation flipped the killswitch that enabled DNSChanger-affected computers to continue surfing the Internet. The FBI commissioned a private entity to provide two clean servers to enable…
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Not Cool Enough to be Banned In UK
Today’s mobile news roundup features a UK judge declaring the Samsung Galaxy Tab “not as cool” as the iPad, RIM customers doubling up on their contingency plan, and a start-up Jolla with plans to revive Nokia’s…