Google Looking For Ways To Make Mobile Search Pay
According to today’s New York Times (nytimes.com), Google says mobile searches are growing as quickly as Web searches were at the same stage in the company’s early days, and they are up sixfold in…
SOHU Beats Expectations, Shares at All Time Highs
Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com Inc. said its first-quarter net profit rose 48% from a year earlier, beating expectations due to strong advertising and online gaming revenue growth, and it gave an upbeat revenue outlook.…
HP Appeals to High-End Clients with New Consulting Services
Hewlett-Packard has big goals for its high-end consulting initiative, along with many other large scale cloud service providers looking to make their product line more of a closed circle. HP rolled out its Strategic…
Hedge Funds Hiring
Hedge fund managers are more optimistic this year about hiring and growth in the industry, according to recent survey results reported at fins.com, a career oriented website related to the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com)…
More On Panda Pandamonium: Is Blogger.com a Front for Scam Sites?
By Tom Foremski
I’ve been helping Murray Newlands with his San Francisco Blog Club meetups, which are great for helping to educate a mostly newbie group about blogging. Last night the featured speaker was Chang Kim, product…
QLogic on a Fibre Streak, Teams with Huawei
Networking and storage technology provider QLogic announced it has entered an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Huawei Symantec, a maker of network security solutions. Huawei is now resseling QLogic’s 5800 Series stackable switches and…
Amazon Reassures Public that Skynet was Not Involved in EC2 Outage
By Kyt Dotson
As a consummate geek and science fiction writer, I’m pretty well versed in the world of sci-fi geekery. So people might have noticed that Skynet, the supercomputer intelligence that declares war on the entire…
Juniper Networks Flies Past Downturn, Staying Ahead of the Game
Cisco nemesis Juniper Networks has been very busy maintaining and growing its share of the market, and it has been doing this ever since it first came to the spotlights. The company is leveraging…
How Curation Can Rescue Great Content From The Tyranny of the Timeline
By Tom Foremski
When I first started blogging in 2004, I didn’t like the way blogging software gradually pushed older stories off the page and into the archives. It tended to discourage me from writing some posts…
This Week in the Cloud: Amazon Crash, High Revenues and More
Just like the entire IT industry, the cloud computing market is evolving. It’s expanding its borders further and further, to reach a broad spectrum of users ranging from large enterprises to the end customers,…