The Egyptian Revolution and Social Media
Today, was one of the most important days in the Egyptian history. Today, the people of Egypt finally decided to take their fate in their own hands. The popularity of the current government had…
GigaSpaces’ New Cloud Scalability Supports Most APIs
GigaSpaces is adding to its cloud management services, launching the eXtreme Application Platform (XAP 8.0) today. It’s based on the ideals of openness, designed to help businesses scale up and out. It’s a centralized…
Rackspace Replies To Market Demands: A Decade of Storage
In the last 20 years, storage has represented a big issue in practical terms, when you think about retrieval, growing demands and in exponentially growing amount of data that needs to be kept and…
Egypt Internet Shutdown: Official Figures
Shortly after anti-government protests began in Cairo, Egypt had experienced an unprecedented Internet service cutoff. Only suggestions have been raised regarding the reason behind this still ongoing situation, as well as its implications in…
Nokia’s Big Operating System Choice
Nokia claims that it will unveil its long-term operating system roadmap on Feb. 11. We all know why this is crucial. Most of us have not seen a Nokia smartphone user since before the…
Google Launches Algorithm to Discourage Scrapers
Google employee Matt Cutts announced in his earlier this week the search giant is considering a new, on-page spam detection technique to reduce spam content – meaning copied or scraped – from appearing in…
NOOK Gets Enhanced To Cope With Tough Competitor
Barnes & Noble announced today on their website the update for eReader NOOKcolor that will improve Wi-Fi connectivity and Home and Shop performance. The update introduces new features such as the ability to pinch…
QLogic Earnings Beat the Street, Big Plans for 2011 in FCoE and Beyond
QLogic, provider of data, server and storage networking infrastructure solutions, has released its earnings report this week, beating expectations for Q3 2010, surging 76% on broad revenue growth. The company’s margins are up across…
Stanford Researchers Bring NFC into Reach of Social Apps
By Kyt Dotson
When Google first introduce Near-Field Communication (NFC) it has been lauded as a platform for financial transactions and advertisement; but these two business-practical applications only represent a sliver of how the technology could be…
HP and Intel Help Open the FCoE Market
For years, I’ve heard people talk about the fact that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a technology that only Cisco is pushing or that it is a push by a dying Fibre Channel…