Cloud Extend’s New Salesforce Tool Even Works for Dummies
When it comes to SaaS products, the idea is to make business life easier. That’s not always the case–sometimes the learning curve behind a new product is just as much of an obstacle as…
Millennial Media Sees Lots of Growth, Android Leads the Charge
Mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its monthly Mobile Mix report for March 2011, providing an insight to the mobile market as a whole. Notably Android is still on top, but many of its…
More Japanese Quakes Affect the Tech Industry: From Cisco to Panasonic
The ongoing Japanese earthquakes have affected an entire nation, but they affected the global tech industries as well, including some of the biggest players around. Japan is a very big presence in the global…
Huawei and Motorola Settle After Series of Legal Battles
Back in January 2011, the Chinese telecom equipment company Huawei filed a suit against Motorola and Nokia Siemens for a potential threat of Motorla sharing Huawei trade secrets to Nokia Siemens. In practical terms,…
Big Data Acquisitions Head to the Social Realm, Proximal Labs the Latest Buy
Today enterprise social networking software developer Jive announced it has acquired Proximal Labs, a privately held big data analytics company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition will be used to…
RIM on the Defensive, Drops BBC Interview for “Unfair” Questions
By Isha Suri
Shockingly, in an interview with BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executive of Research In Motion (RIM) put halt on the whole affair. The incident happened when Cellan asked a question…
Microsoft Sneaks Internet Explorer 10 Preview onto the Web Even Before IE9 Cools
By Kyt Dotson
Barely a month after striking the mint on Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has prepared a demo of their next-generation browser IE10—and they’re inviting you to download and try it out. “Explore a more beautiful…
Flip Is Gone, but How Does Cisco’s Fiasco Affect the Industry?
Shortly after Cisco CEO John Chambers released a memo saying that his company has “lost its focus, lacks discipline and needs to overhaul its operations,” Cisco confirmed its plan when it pulled the plug…
Fusion-io to Hire 50 Top Level Officials
By Isha Suri
Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-based flash storage vendor, has revealed its plans to hire around 40 to 50 officials at top level, by the end of this year. The company already has some big…
Gluster Adds Supports for 2 New Services, Expands Open Cloud Storage Turf
The open source trend had been picking up a great deal of momentum lately, and for a number of reasons. In addition being cheaper than most alternatives, open source cloud offerings help avoid vendor…