You Gotta Stretch That Neck! This Infographic Will Help
Technology is on the rise, and along with it is the growing agitation of my grandparents about how people ceased to go outside and do some manual labor as they prefer to spin away…
AppFog Adds Java Support
By Klint Finley
AppFog, previously known as PHPFog, rounds out its PHP, Ruby and Node.js platform-as-a-service offering with Java support today. AppFog was founded last year as a PHP PaaS, but changed its name to AppFog in…
IBM Watson Moves Beyond Jeopardy to the Doctor’s Office
IBM Watson now has its own group dedicated to moving Watson beyond the game show world and into the commercial markets. “We want to correct the notion that it is a question and answer…
Fortumo Unleashes the First Cross-Platform Mobile Payments for HTML5 Apps
I used to think that the future of payments is going to be all about cards and didn’t consider any other option. Of course, I was being unimaginative. These days, we have mobile payments,…
Who Will Own Your Living Room?
By Maria Pila
Hybrid set-top boxes are rapidly being deployed by pay-TV operators worldwide, and especially on satellite platforms, to help them deliver advanced services and manage bandwidth scarcity in broadcast networks, according to AIB Research. “What…
Happy 10th Birthday, iPod. You Did Music Right
Today marks a decade of success for the iPod. Launched back on October 23, 2011 by Steve Jobs, it transformed the way music is purchased and disseminated. The first model boasts a 5GB hard…
EMC Sees Record Earnings, Gives Funds to Charity
Storage solutions vendor EMC reported positive results for the third quarter of 2011. The company showed 18 percent year-over-year revenue growth reaching $4.98 billion, 54 percent ($2.7 billion) of which came from U.S. sales.…
IBM Moves a Step Closer to Competing in Hadoop Arena with Amazon Web Services
IBM has built a new version of its InfoSphere Big Insights for its smart cloud infrastructure that uses Hadoop as its base to analyze structured and unstructured data. It’s significant in that it does…
Syncplicity Gets New CEO as Cloud Strategy Solidifies
Menlo Park, California-based cloud file management provider Syncplicity has reshuffled its management team as a part of an effort to consolidate its strategy in order to better compete in a particularly crowded market. The…
Video Interview: Couchbase’s J. Chris Anderson on How P2P Changes Business as Usual
By Klint Finley
J. Chris Anderson is chief architect of mobile technology at Couchbase, a company dedicated to developing and commercializing the open source projects Apache CouchDB and Membase. I interviewed Anderson at Contact, an unconference dedicated…