18 Months Later Microsoft’s Metro Still Advancing
Throughout the past 18 months Microsoft has been carving out a new niche in user experience with its Metro interface. It’s used by Windows Phone 7 and will be the default UI setting in…
Better Stats, More Data for Revolution R Enterprise
Revolution R unveiled the latest version of its flagship product this week – a commercial distribution of the popular mathematics-oriented programming language optimized use in the enterprise. R Enterprise R 6 introduces a number…
Larry – The Oracle Cloud Is Seven Years Old? If So, it Sure Looks Like It
Larry Ellison talked on stage today, squinting his eyes at a desktop and laptop screen to show the new social marketing tools Oracle has developed. I have so many questions after listening to Larry.…
The Future of the Converged Infrastructure and HP
The Cube is live from Las Vegas at this year’s HP Discover 2012. Dave Vellante sat down with Dave Donatelli, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Group, Hewlett-Packard (full video below). HP created…
Windows Phone to Surpass iOS by 2016, IDC Says
By Saroj Kar
2012 is the year that will see highest number of mobile handsets sell in mobile history. IDC released its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report on Wednesday in which it provided the current market…
Microsoft Windows Azure Makes Good With Linux Virtual Machines
Microsoft is spoiling its own party. Even though Microsoft was expected to deliver updates to its increasingly popular Windows Azure cloud platform at a webcast event tomorrow, the wizards at Redmond decided to steal…
Cyberthreat Weekly: Flame Virus Discovery and More Reports of Cyber Breaches
The digital age has only made its ingress but the world has seen a great deal of nasty viruses infecting computers. The most recent one –and perhaps the most lethal – is Flame virus.…
Buffer Using MongoDB for Real-Time Analytics Without MapReduce
In a blog post, Tom Moor – co-founder and chief hacker at social media post scheduling app Buffer – describes how his company uses the NoSQL database MongoDB to gain real-time insight into internal…
Is Airtime Worth Your Time?
Yesterday was the star-studded launch of Airtime, the social video chat service from Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, the brains behind Napster. This new partnership aims to revolutionize video chatting as it would allow…
Square Enix Unveils New Gaming Engine
As we all know, E3 is currently in full swing and we’ve extensively tackled Microsoft, Nintendo, OnLive, Sony and Ubisoft’s offerings. But there’s still more to unearth. So let’s look at some of their…