EMC Opens Support Center in Utah, Adds 500 Jobs
EMC will be opening a new support center in Utah, Governor Gary R. Herbert announced this week. Under its agreement with the state, the storage giant will add 500 new jobs and will invest…
Facebook Takes Down Roger Ebert Fan Page
Update: Roger Ebert tweeted that Facebook put back up his Facebook page. All is well in the world! Before you start really embracing Facebook for business, consider the story of well-known film critic Roger…
NFC Makes Reservations at Restaurants & Hotels with New Tech
NFC tag supplier UPM RFID and software developer introduced a new app designed to help restaurants to improve customer service. Customers are promoted to download Connected Restaurant when tapping an NFC-tagged poster at the…
Lowe’s: Social Adoption Leads to 45 Million Page Views
Over the past five to ten years, we’ve seen the rise of the customer once again. They have the Internet this time. They can see pretty quickly what companies are engaged and which ones…
Foursquare Surpases 10M Members. Location Services Here to Stay?
By Ross LaRocco
The popular location based service Foursquare announced the 10,000,000 members mark today. This represents the importance how location awareness is reaching a massive audience. I’m a big fan of seeing a company grow. View the…
Woman Uses Facebook Instead of 911. The Future of Urgency?
By Ross LaRocco
There is no arguing with an emergency. When something unfortunate happens, the urgent thing to do is call 911. However, I think about all the people who are alone at the time of an…
Is Mellanox Oracle’s Networking B*tch?
By John Furrier
I was reading the recent QLogic news covered by SiliconANGLE today titled– QLogic Grows InfiniBand Reach, Teams with NNS. Our partner Wikibon.org has the detailed analysis of the QLogic news and the events at…
InfiniBand Leader Mellanox Slips with Latest Version
Supercomputing is the Formula 1 of computing, where speed takes precedence over everything else, including cost. Supercomputers are not just larger, faster mainframes, any more than Formula 1 race cars are just faster sports…
Dell Hangs Storage Hopes on RNA Acquisition
By Cherr Aira
Storage and networking virtualization are two primary anchors of Dell’s refocused strategy and recovery plan. With Michael Dell expressing huge admiration on storage, it is not surprising to see the company chasing innovations within…
Oracle Court Battles not Deterring Investors before Q4 Earnings Call
Oracle has been tangled up with several court battles through this this year and late 2010. That includes SAP, Hewlett-Packard and Google, and the search giant has billions of ad revenue now at stake.…