It’s Time to Bring Unstructured Content in from the Cold
For too long, unstructured content has played the role of neglected stepchild in the world of business intelligence (BI) and data analytics.
Google vs South Korea in Antitrust Allegations
Google is adding another name on its complaints list, that of Daum Communications and NHN., owner of Naver, the largest search engine in South Korea. According to this particularly complaint, to be investigated by South…
Google Revenue, Earnings, Costs Climb
Google (ticker symbol GOOG) has reported their quarterly results, showing increases in revenues, earnings, and operating costs. On Thursday, April 14, the internet search giant reported an 18% increase in net earnings on a…
Google Partner Sites Show Weak Growth – Bad News For Publishers
By Tom Foremski
Google’s Q1 2011 financial results show a significant shift in revenues away from its partner sites in its AdSense advertising network. Google typically relies on partner sites for about 30% of total revenues but…
Apple Plucks Cloud Expert From Microsoft
Apple went on a fishing expedition and caught Microsoft’s data center general manager Kevin Timmons, who had been serving Microsoft for only a year-and-a-half. Microsoft in its turn picked up Timmons from Yahoo! where…
Reported Vulnerability in Skype for Android Exposes Personal Information
By Kyt Dotson
A vulnerability in Skype’s app for Android has been discovered that exposes names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, contacts, and chat logs. Justin Case over at Android Police published the exploit after downloading a leaked…
Iron Deficiency in the Cloud – Did Iron Mountain Just Take a Poison Pill?
A month ago an Iron Mountain investor made a few nominations to the company’s board, and required a review of its operations and structure. Yesterday, president and CEO Bob Brennan resigned from his position…
NetApp’s Engenio Acquisition: A $2B Windfall for Investors
When NetApp bought LSI’s Engenio division, many questioned the merits of the move. After all, NetApp is the poster child for unified storage and has built a multi-billion dollar business around WAFL, the Write Anywhere…
DataDirect Launches NAS Scaler for Private/Public Clouds
DataDirect Networks, a leading storage company, has had a few significant developments this week, among them the announcement of its new NAS Scaler enterprise file storage platform, a cost-efficient and scalable multi-protocol network-attached storage (NAS) solution.…
FCC Begins Review of AT&T-Mobile Deal, Reiterates Motives
AT&T’s planned acquisition of competitor T-Mobile for a whopping $39 billion stirred a lot of buzz lately, and as the story is beginning unfold, it’s also raising some eyebrows in Washington. And now that…