What the Feds Can Learn From Amazon
Amazon reported spectacular September quarter results — sales up 39% and profits up 16%, from a year ago. At the same time, the U.S. federal government concluded a September fiscal year-end with a $1.3…
Facebook’s Answer to Security Defects: Encryption
By Cherr Aira
Facebook has proposed a solution to the recent security flaw that was raised some weeks ago. Today, Facebook is facing a tough battle to strengthen security of members’ confidential information. In response to the…
Google Cutting Groups to ‘Creatively Promote’ other Products
In a recent e-mail sent to Google Groups group owners, the Corp. politely announced that it will cut the leash on several of the app’s most favored features as of January next year, as…
OpenStack now Open for Windows Server
By Isha Suri
Microsoft has partnered with Cloud.com and finally the OpenStack is open for Windows Server. This partnership has been done to provide Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V support to the OpenStack project. This collaboration…
Google TV Being Blocked by Networks. YouTube Deja Vu?
Google’s plans to expand the web towards television seem to be hardened by three major TV networks that blocked their access on Google TV. The ABC network and cable TV business ESPN’s owner –…
Hadoop Opens the Door to Solving “Unsolvable” Problems
Hadoop will be at least as disruptive to the IT industry as Linux has been, says Abhishek Mehta, managing director for big data and analytics for Bank of America. And one major reason for…
HP Slate and HP Converged Networks Poised For The Future
By John Furrier
HP is not stopping it’s plans to be a leader in technology even among all the tainted press received from the tainted Mark Hurd era. HP is bringing the consumer and converged networking story…
AOL Faces the Loss of Key Editors
Since its beginning AOL’s focus was on a professional team. Among the 500 journalists of AOL nine of them were Pulitzer awarded and two Heisman Trophy winners. It is clear that AOL’s main strategy…
Apple Laps RIM in Global Smartphone Sales
By Isha Suri
In its third quarterly report, Apple reported that it has shipped more iPhone units in 2010 as compared to both Blackberry and RIM. Until now, Research in Motion (RIM) was much ahead of Apple,…
High-end Social Game Developer WonderHill to Be Aquired by Kabam
Kabam is well-known in the social game environment because of the very popular and worshiped Kingdoms of Camelot. What Kingdoms of Camelot appealed was the perfect combination of traditional and social gaming features. Because…