Hotmail is dead – Viva Outlook.com!
Anyone lost track of which version of Hotmail is still out there? Well, some relief is coming because Hotmail is being replaced by Microsoft’s new service Outlook.com. The change is in the midst of…
Azure Outage Caused by Networking Glitch, GM Says
Microsoft is one of the latest companies trying to clean up reputation damage inflicted by an outage of its cloud services. Mike Neil, the general manager in charge of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, wrote a…
appMobi Launches Free HTML5 Packaging Service
appMobi announced openBuild this week, a free cloud service that makes it easier for HTML5 developers to optimize their apps for all the different app stores out there. While HTML5 may be able to…
Top Analytics Tools for Pinterest: Pinfluencer and More
Pinterest used to be just another photo-sharing, social networking site, but entreprenuers soon realized it’s potential as a great business tool. Yet Pinterest still lacked some features to make it the ultimate marketing platform,…
Big Data for the Business World: Making it Work for You
We’ve been hearing a lot about ‘big data’ these days so it made me think if everyone really understands what big data is and what’s the big deal with it. For example, as a…
What We can Learn from What Netflix Learned from the AWS Failure
By Kyt Dotson
Late in June (last month) the Amazon Web Services suffered a catastrophic series of failures often now referred to as an “AWS Storm” and Netflix found themselves caught up in the middle of it…
Marissa Mayer’s First Steps as CEO: Turning Yahoo! Into Google?
People working in most of Silicon Valley companies are cared for by their bosses with giving small perks that makes their work life bearable, and sometimes even fun. But that’s not the case with…
Romney announcing VP pick via iPhone, Android App
The Washington Times reports that the campaign for presidential candidate Mitt Romney has released an app that will break the news on his VP pick before anywhere else. The app is available…
Chinese Hacker Army Linked Everywhere, Waging a Cyber War?
By Isha Suri
Looks like China is utilizing all means possible to ensure its dominance in the international sphere–at least when it comes to cyberespionage as further links between the nation-state and hacking events come to light.…
Breaking Analysis: Google Acquires Wildfire – Who Says Social Media Bubble is Popping
By John Furrier
Google announced that it is acquiring Wildfire a social media infrastructure provider. Google’s product manager Jason Miller says that social presence can complement all marketing campaigns—search, display, video, mobile, offline ads and more. Note:…