Microsoft Offers 4GB Xbox For $99 — With Xbox LIVE Contract?
As sales of Microsoft’s Xbox console dwindles, the company came up with a new plan to pick things up a bit. Gamers can now purchase a 4GB Xbox for only $99 as part of…
There’s No Such Thing as the Perfect Developer Laptop
By Klint Finley
Yesterday’s post about Dell’s experimental developer-centric laptop Project Sputnik struck a chord. It’s the most popular post we’ve done at DevOpsAngle, it has 181 comments on Hacker News so far and Dell’s collected 40…
Latest from InterOp: Zynga’s in-house AWS
One of the newest highlights of the InterOp gathering held this week at Las Vegas is the Zynga keynote, in which the company detailed its own cloud use case, Wikibon’s David Cahill attended and…
Panzura Hits Revenue, Petabyte Cloud Milestones at InterOp
Two months ago we covered Panzura’s launch of a brand new cloud service based on the Google Storage PaaS, which, at the time, made it one of the first third party vendors to adopt…
Social Boosts Financial Performance But Not So Much for Companies that Fail to Scale
McKinsey and Compay issued its fifth annual report about the use of social technologies in the enterprise. The results show how the most networked organizations perform better financially, are taking market share, and blurring…
Nobody Panic: Microsoft Isn’t Rebranding Windows Azure
From the “Somebody on the Internet said so” department: Following a blog post on Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows, Microsoft Windows Azure customers are suddenly worried that Redmond has axed the “Azure” brand for…
RIM Appoints New COO and CMO Amidst Product Turmoil
Research in Motion announced two new additions to the company: Kristian Tear as the new chief operating officer and Frank Boulben as the new chief marketing officer. Tear fills up the position vacated by…
CTIA 2012 Kicks Off With New LTE Devices and Security Apps
The International CTIA Wireless 2012 trade show kicks off in New Orleans this week and will run until the 10th of May. Tech companies gathered to showcase their latest products and services which will…
NASA, Air Force, Harvard Compromised by Hacker Crew ‘The Unknowns’
By Kyt Dotson
Last month saw a rash of hacks hit a variety of high profile targets including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense, the European Space Agency, the Bahrain Ministry of Defense,…
Hadoop/MapReduce Worth $812.8 million in 2016 [Report]
A recent Wikibon report included a forecast about the future of the big data market as a whole, including revenue from all products and services that tie in with this area. The research firm…