RIM, Yahoo Battle Manpower Headaches
Sad as it may seem, RIM and Yahoo is given added problems on top of their lackluster performance and slacking market. First off, two of RIM’s employees were fired following their arrest and penalty…
AppFog Rolling Out Third Party Add-Ons, Including MongoDB Hosting
By Klint Finley
Platform-as-a-Service provider AppFog announced today that it is rolling out a new program for third party add-ons. Users will be able to manage accounts with third-party services from a single interface. The first partners…
Paper Waste Too Often Overlooked in the Age of the Cloud
IT has operated under constant heavy pressure from senior management to cut costs for at least 20 years. The 2008 financial meltdown has increased that pressure from a dull roar to a full scream.…
Top 10 Books on Programming According to StackOverflow Users
By Klint Finley
StackOverflow is a question and answer community for programmers. Users can ask questions and then vote on the best answers. Back in 2009, someone asked: “What is the single most influential book every programmer…
How Many Proprietary, Value-Add Components will Hadoop Community Accept?
Last week, Hortonworks announced its engineers, with the help of the Apache Hadoop community, developed a new RESTful-based protocol called WebHDFS to enable a wider range of application to access the Hadoop Distributed File…
HP Gets Printer Happy as Oracle Retaliates in Court
Alongside its lengthening legal clash with Oracle, Hewlett-Packard is doing some damage control under head Meg Whitman following several major blunders by the two previous CEOs. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, stated…
Apple Still Rules Despite Market Share Loss, Small Devices Prevail
By Cherr Aira
Where there is mobility, there is prosperity–mobile’s Midas touch, as the cliché goes. Clearly, anything that has to do with the likes of Android, Samsung and Apple are gaining incredible momentum, thanks to man’s affinity…
EMC Leads Storage Software Industry Growth
IDC released its latest “Worldwide Storage Software QView” study, covering the storage software industry’s growth by revenue and other trends in the third quarter of 2011. Companies spent $3.5 billion in this area throughout…
7 Possible Graph Databases for Developers
By Klint Finley
Graph databases are one of the most interesting but least talked about areas of non-relational/NoSQL database development. We hear a lot about MongoDB, Apache Cassandra and Redis, and much less about Neo4j and DEX.…
Cloud Wars: Cisco Strikes Back
By Val Galin
Over the years Cisco has been known as the giant in the networking space and most recently in the videoconferencing market, which the company celebrated its 5th anniversary in October. They were once the…