Nokia and RIM on a Slump, Honeycomb and Mango Get Upgrades
One of the buzziest news we’ve heard this week is the announcement of Nokia’s dropping of Ovi Mobile Services by the end of 2012. Nokia find both Symbian and MeeGo unable to keep up…
This Week in the Cloud: Open Source Trends from Major Players
The cloud and big data are on a collision course, and that’s exactly what EMC World 2011 was all about. Open-source is a particularly hot topic these days, and alongside all the Greenplum developments…
SAP Teams with Dell, Expands Cloud Computing at SAPphire 2011
SAP’s Sapphire conference is getting underway today, with heady expectations for its mobile initiatives, along with some announcements around its prominent Unwired Platform. It’s gained a good amount of attention in the mobile sector,…
Attivio: Optimizing Information Assets
By Cherr Aira
Information optimization and text analytics are growing leaps and bounds as an industry sector. Tag this along with the demand for smarter search, and you get business-process-integrated applications with the aid of enhanced information…
Week In Review – May 14, 2011
There are certain trends or threads which seem to me to be running through the technology news and markets currently, but perhaps that’s just due to the tint of the glasses through which I…
Bento for iPad, Google Docs Primed for Business Tablets
Tablet apps have invaded just about every area possible, including the office. Businesses users represent a growing aspect of the mobile market, and as such, more and more developers begin to focus on the…
IBM Drives Big Data Trend with Tape Storage
At the same time EMC is holding its annual EMC 2011 conference in Las Vegas titled “Cloud Meets Big Data,” IBM made its own move in this space. This week, the veteran tech giant…
Microsoft’s Outlook Hotmail Connector Gets an Update
For those of you using Outlook and the handy Outlook Hotmail Connector you might want to head to the Microsoft Download Center and grab yourself a copy of the update package for it. For…
Are Ex-Journalists to Blame or Facebook’s Smear Campaign?
By Tom Foremski
The scandal over Facebook’s PR campaign to smear Google over possible privacy violations carries an interesting wrinkle: at least two prominent ex-journalists were involved. Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller reported in the New…
Jeremy Burton, CMO at EMC Talks Greenplum, Data Scientists
EMC’s CMO Jeremy Burton sat down at The Cube in the heart of EMC World 2011 to talk about his company, the cloud, big data and what it all has to do with new…