Android Malware Scare Just Another Marketing Ploy
Earlier this week, reports came out about the latest scary Android malware threat, a being known as “DroidDream.” Let’s just calm down and call it what it is. This is a marketing ploy by…
EMC Delivers New Cloud Systems, VMware Plays Along
Starting today, EMC, distributors and resellers will be able to offer the two new systems, EMC VNXe and VNX unified storage solutions. The series is aimed at serving small and medium-sized businesses, and is…
Memolane is Your New Social Network Diary
By Cherr Aira
Ever wonder if you can recover all the statuses you’ve made in Facebook, or all the tweets you tweeted? And then write a story of your life from the time you graduated from college,…
Social Bookmarking Revival as StumbleUpon Lands $17M in Series B Funding
StumbleUpon is continuing its rise back to the top of its social media game, with a hefty round of funding. Accel Partners, August Capital, DAG Ventures, First Round Capital and Sherpalo Ventures will fund…
Social Responsibility for the FCC Brings the Web to Students at Home
The FCC has unveiled plans of connecting students from over 20 schools and libraries to wireless internet at school/library and at home as well. The program is called ‘Learning On-the-Go’ and complements Obama Administration’s…
HTML5 Broods Browser Wars as IE9 Launch Looms
The browser war rages on. In light of recent HTML5 developments and growing adoption of mobile browsing, almost all major browsers (except Firefox) released a big update in roughly the same timeframe. The first…
Akamai Thinks IPv6, Stock Down 22%
We received an e-mail today shedding some light about Akamai’s intentions around the IPv6 switch, which takes place in June. After 40 years and 2 billion internet users, we’ve run through the 40 billion…
Instant Search Makes Industry-wide Gains, Heads to Mobile Sector
Google has added a new feature to their mobile search, namely the instant previews, that were added to their web service not too long ago, as part of their bigger shift to instant search…
Zite’s iPad Magazine Fits The Bill in Digital Publishing
Digital publishing welcomes a new player on the field; a free app for the iPad called Zite, posing serious competition to popular app Flipboard that was awarded as the iPad app of the year…
Fusion-io Preps for IPO; Though Not Quite Ripe, Facebook Already a Data-Center Customer
By Kyt Dotson
As big-time innovators in solid-state storage as it combines with distributed storage models, Fusion-io has been pushing the cloud-envelope on multiple fronts. Since their emergence into the scene as a start-up in 2006, they’ve…