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Are We Putting Too Much Stock in Facebook Fan Pages?
I was part of a panel at a conference for realtors last week — more of an unconference really — where the topics are chosen on the fly and you pretty much go with…
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HP Takes Out 3Com: What’s The Next Step in Consolidation?
People have been asking me for a while what the next ‘shot’ would be in the tech titan border-clash. Cisco entered the server market with UCS, and everyone was wondering what the response would…
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HP 3Com Exclusive: HP’s Marius Haas to Cisco: “We’ll Bring It.”
By John Furrier
With HP’s announcement of the acquisition of 3Com for $2.7 billion it will be known as the day the HP Cisco “cold war” escalated to full on war. November 11, 2009 was the day…
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Rackspace Adding Windows Server in Cloud With Support from Microsoft
By Nate D'Amico
Rackspace continues to advance their cloud offering today with announcing of support for Windows Servers images starting in 2010. The Rackspace team has a long history of Microsoft support in their traditional dedicated servers…
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Run a Community? You’ll Need These Three Essential Elements of the Real Time Web.
Even though the news is relatively old at this point, I’ve continued to noodle the discussion Steven Hodson and I had Tuesday night in the aftermath of the widely trumpeted news that LinkedIn would…
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AWS Goes Global & Gets Thumbs Up from Auditors
By Nate D'Amico
Another full week of cloud news, this time from Amazon. Last night CTO Werner Vogels dropped two announcements via twitter: #AWS is expanding into Asia! Multiple availability zones in Singapore first then AZs in…
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Breaking News: HP Set to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion
Breaking News: HP Set to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion HP and 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) (“3Com”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3Com, a…
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Eric Schmidt Answers Our Questions as to Why They Acquired AdMob
Eric Schmidt gave a very juicy soundbite laden interview to Bloomberg this morning, mostly on the topic of the AdMob acquisition, but with some interesting insight on the mobile ad market as a whole.…
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The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Models an Advanced Session Proposal System
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference has opened its Call for Papers for the Boston 2010 show. And boy, it’s changing things up. In a good way. The Conference is using Spigit to manage the collection…
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Droid Hands-On Review: “I Like My iPhone Better”
By Jeff Nolan
My wife came home with a Droid yesterday, which on one hand was pretty cool while on the other very disturbing as she is by no means a geek and not once did she…