AWS Outage Causes Web Services to Go Down Again
One of the biggest factors that hold back some companies from migrating to the cloud is the whole topic of reliability. The average uptime of cloud deployments has been observed to be higher than…
Seagate Hybrid Drive is the Cloud’s Future
Hard drive maker Seagate announced it the one millionth unit of its Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive, which the company introduced back in spring 2010 for use in laptops and gaming systems. The…
Smartphone-Armed Citizens Chronicle London Riots Violence
By Cherr Aira
London’s bridge (of peace and order) is seriously falling down. One of the world’s richest and busiest cities is now battling days of riots spurred by masked/unnamed culprits in defiance of police brutality. Very…
Anonymous Gets Another Taste Of their Own Medicine
In a previous entry, I stated that getting banned from Google+ was the worst thing that happened to Anonymous. This led to them creating their own social networking site, AnonPlus, and challenged hackers to…
Twitter: Unravel the Mysteries of Big Data
By Cherr Aira
Tell me what your tweets are, and I’ll tell you who you are. Twitter has been the outlet of my heart and mind. My tweets are a product of mixed emotions and liberated imagination.…
Tablet Makers Driven Out of US to Beat iPad Sales
The Apple iPad has dominance in the US market as 80% of tablet owners sport Steve Jobs’ latest creation. So tablet makers are looking into European and Asian markets where there is weaker tablet…
Microsoft Keeps AAA Credit, Pins Hopes on WP8
By Saroj Kar
Microsoft has received some good reviews for Windows Phone 7, but when it comes to market share, it is still lagging behind Android and Apple. There is still an opportunity for Microsoft to seize…
Apprenda Closes $10M Funding Round, PaaS Going Strong
Apprenda, a PaaS for .NET, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding led by Ignition Partners. Existing investors New Enterprise Associates and High Peaks Venture Partners also participated. The company stated…
AT&T Under ‘Monopoly’ Review by FCC, Rivals Take More Jabs
Aside from its plans to buy T-Mobile, AT&T is also looking to acquire Qualcomm’s spectrum. AT&T may be trying to do too much, as the FCC recently announced that they will combine the review…
Markets Fall: What Will Happen to the Silicon Valley Recovery?
By Tom Foremski
Turmoil in global financial markets and economies is never good for Silicon Valley despite the fact that the regional economy has its own boom and boost cycles that operate on a different timetable. Currently,…