Nexus 7 vs Microsoft Surface vs iPad
So, there’s a new tablet in town – the Google Nexus 7. As per use, we at SiliconANGLE like pitting gadgets against one another. So let’s get right into it. Price and Availability Google…
EnterpriseDB’s Cloud Database Gains over 2,300 Customers
EnterpriseDB debuted Postgres Plus Cloud Database just five months ago, with the premise of a more cost-efficient and easy to use PostgreSQL DB that can run on AWS and HP Cloud Services. The company hasn’t expanded…
Flash Dies with Nexus 7, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Adobe’s support for Flash for mobile browsers is nearing its end as the company announced that they would no longer release support for newer Android versions. The company reiterated what they announced back in…
Does Netflix Care About their Developer Community?
It seems that Netflix is determined to create mobs of angry people. Last year the company announced it was going to spinoff its disc rental service to a new business called Qwikster. The company…
Transparency a Double Edged Sword for Big Data in UK Government
The British government hopped aboard the big data bandwagon this week with a new initiative that’s bent on making the U.K. a better place by sharing information collected by the different agencies. The full…
This Week in the Cloud: All About End-Users
A lot of the main highlights from the past few days can be traced back to the personal cloud rather than the enterprise, and although the latter category is still very much adequately represented…
Acunote Analytics Takes the “Politics” Out of Office Decisions
Analytics firm Acunote has an impressive clientele that includes tech firms like EMC, IBM, Google Apps and other enterprise such as Bank of America. The company offers analytical solutions that make it easier to…
Facebook Testing “Want” Button: A Preemptive Strike Against Amazon and Pinterest Wishlists?
By Kyt Dotson
Facebook is developing a new functionality into its SDK to allow users to “Want” something with much the same functionality as they could use to “Like” something. Developer Tom Waddington says that he discovered…
The Nexus 7 Would Be Great If It Had…
Google recently unveiled the Google ASUS Nexus 7 – a tablet made by ASUS (hardware) and Google (software). This 7” tablet aims to compete with other small tablets, such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and…
Microsoft Azure Cloud: Can They Compete with Google Compute Engine in a World of Cloud and Big Data
By John Furrier
With the sweeping global tech impact of social, mobile, big data and cloud, it’s becoming rather clear that Google is poised to rock the cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market while Microsoft is…