QR Codes, Undecided
By Jeff Nolan
I love QR codes. They gives me something to do with the barcode scanner on my Evo. And occasionally they perform a function that is actually useful. A few weeks ago I started poking…
By Jeff Nolan
Android Takes Another Security Blow, Must Deal With 3rd Party Markets
Android Market Security Tool, the security update Google pushed out at the beginning of this month to repair the damage done by Android.Rootcager, has been compromised, and a fake version is making its way…
Big Data and Warehouses Coexist, but Cost Widens the Gap
By Cherr Aira
The tech community is faced with the truth that Big Data is now shaping IT economics. The recent Wikibon Peer Incite Research Meeting on Big Data came to the conclusion that data warehousing isn’t…
Scoreloop Launches GoAndroid for Mobile Game Developers
Go Android is the offspring of Scoreloop that was conceived in January this year, and revealed today with the aim of helping top iOS developers bring their hit games to Android, despite operational, legal…
iPad 2 Facing Stiff Competition, Toshiba and Amazon Throw in their Hats
By Isha Suri
A few short days after the launch of the iPad 2, Toshiba has also stepped forward claiming that their upcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet will be much better. The tablet is still unnamed, runs…
New Media Minute: How to Make a Great iPad App
Learn the secrets to iPad success! From pricing to promotion to picking the right developer, there are several best practices your brand, Web site, or company can follow when making an iPad or tablet…
Topsy Labs Raises $15 Million, Continues in Realtime Social Search
By Isha Suri
Topsy Labs, the startup realtime social search engine has finally found the road to revival, fostering the real-time bandwagon in the search industry. It has managed to raise a funding of $15 million as…
Clash of the Titans: The Cloud Climbing Mount Olympus
By Kyt Dotson
The cloud has been changing the very face of computer technology and it’s largely been innovated by the newcomers with the old, faithful behemoths of the industry moving slowly but inexorably in their wake.…
NetApp Buying LSIs Engenio Storage Business Unit
By Greg Schulz
This has been a busy week as on Monday Western Digital (WD) announced that they were buying the disk drive business from Hitachi Ltd. (e.g. HGST) for about $4.3 billion USD. The deal includes…
NetApp Buys Engenio for $480M, Shareholders Not Satisfied
NetApp will pay $480 million in an all-cash deal to acquire the external memory division of LSI Corp., Engenio. The deal will close within roughly 60 days, and marks NetApp’s expansion into several new…