2011 Was the Year of the Smartphone and Wi-Fi
2011 was a flourishing year for Android as it moves ahead of everyone else in the mobile OS race. To start, it owned 47 percent of share of device impressions last year, while iOS…
Geoloqi Launches Platform for White Label Geolocation Apps
By Klint Finley
Geoloqi has been around as a multipurpose geolocation app for iPhone and Android since 2010, and its API has been available since last summer. But today the Portland, OR startup is releasing its real…
Dell Fails to Meet Expectations Admits PC Market Turmoil
Manufacturing giant Dell, alongside competitor HP, has been making efforts to find a workaround for the impact that Apple’s iPad and Android tablets, among other mobile devices, has had on the PC industry. About…
Infochimps Launches Hadoop and Big Data Management Platform
By Klint Finley
Infochimps, known for its data market, today announced a big data management tool called Infochimps Platform, a suite for managing Hadoop and other big data tools that can be hosted in the cloud or…
Juniper’s Mykonos Acquisition a Step Into New Security Realm
News that Mykonos Software was acquired by Juniper Networks was published here earlier at SiliconANGLE. The integration is ambitious, but invokes some great strategic alignment. The result should help deliver next-generation security directly from…
Red Hat’s KVM Overtakes Xen and Service Providers Lead the Way
By Klint Finley
This week Ubuntu sponsor company Canonical released the results of its latest Ubuntu Server User Survey. Over 6,000 Ubuntu Server users from around the world responded. Possibly the most interesting result is that although…
SAP Reveals Integration Plans for Success Factors
SAP’s $3.4 billion acquisition of cloud-based HR software provider Success Factors was just finalized a few days ago, and we now have additional details on how the two plan to integrate moving forward. In a joint…
Infographic: Active UK Users of Social Media Platforms
By Tom Foremski
My recent article about the true size of social media platforms has prompted a lot of people to examine how many real people are followers or friends, and there has been some interesting additional…
Thinking Big About Big Data
There are, without question, a number of technical challenges and cultural implications associated with the Era of Big Data than can and must be addressed by the industry at large. It’s also important to…
Google’s Internet-enabled Spectacles Will Bring Cyberspace to Your Eyes
By Kyt Dotson
It looks like all those rumors about Google working on cyber-glasses are beginning to take shape and, according to reports, we might even see them on the market before the end of 2012. No…