HostingCon 2011 kicks off on Monday, August 8th 2011 at the San Diego Convention Center. The three-day event is a premier conference and trade show for the web hosting industry that for seven years in a row gathers industry’s leading players. According to HostingCon, this year’s event will attract over 1,800 attendees from 30 countries [...]
Techaisle’s Cloud Computing research indicates that EMEA SMBs will be spending US$2.5 Billion on Cloud Computing in 2011 growing at a CAGR of 12 percent till 2015. An estimated 35 million SMB users in EMEA are expected to use some form of Cloud by the end of 2011. UK, France, Germany will have a little [...]
Google+ has reached 25 million visitors according to the latest data released by comScore. Google launched its social network on June 28 and Google+ reached the new milestone of 25 million visitors on July 24, Andrew Lipsman, comScore VP of industry analysis said. comScore previously reported that as of July 19, the social media site [...]
Facebook has acquired a digital book publisher Push Pop Press. The San Franciso-based startup announced the acquisition on its website on Tuesday, but did not disclose the terms of the deal. Push Pop Press was founded last year by former Apple employees Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris with the focus on creating iPad and iPhone [...]
Google has bought the daily deal aggregator Dealmap. The acquisition was officially confirmed Monday on Dealmap’s blog, but the terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Dealmap was launched in May 2010 and the service collects local deals from more than 450 unique sources allowing users to see deals through its mobile apps, website [...]
Apple launched the beta version of its iCloud website on Monday. The company’s new set of cloud-based services is currently accessible to developers only who can log in with their Apple ID and password. The new website features web applications for Contacts, Calendar, Mail, Find my iPhone and iWork, and it works with iOS 5 or [...]
American Express and Verizon Wireless announced partnership on Monday under which they will integrate American Express’ digital payment platform Serve on many Verizon mobile phones and tablets. In the following months, Verizon Wireless customers will have the ability to establish Serve accounts that will enable them to make payments and redeem offers for products and services directly from [...]
Groupon, one of the biggest players in the daily deals market, announced Friday that it has teamed up with Foursquare to offer its daily deals through the Foursquare location-based mobile app. Groupon’s daily deals now appear in the “Explore” tab of the Foursquare’s mobile app for the users in the U.S. and Canada. Few weeks [...]
Only 44% of the global security software market worth $16.5 billion belonged to top five vendors Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, IBM and EMC in 2010 according to analyst firm Gartner. Since 2006, the combined market share for these vendors has dropped from 60 percent. “The information security market is in a continuous state of consolidation, [...]
Apple has become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume in the second quarter of 2011 according to the latest report from market research firm Strategy Analytics. The research company found global smartphone shipments saw a significant annual growth of 76 percent, to reach a record 110 million units sold in the second quarter of [...]
Google launched a new tool on Thursday building on the search giant’s previous efforts to help webmasters boost the speed of their web pages. Page Speed Service is Google’s newest addition to its “Page Speed family” that includes Page Speed browser extension released couple of years ago and Page Speed Online API made available to [...]
Amazon announced on Thursday it signed a licence agreement with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution that allows its Prime members free streaming access to select Universal Pictures movies through Prime Instant Video. Amazon said the deal will bring the total number of Prime instant videos to over 9,000 movies and TV shows from 8,000 previously. Amazon [...]
Google officially launched AdWords Express, a product that enables local businesses to start advertising online in less than five minutes. The product was originally launched last fall as Google Boost for a limited number of small businesses and has since then expanded to all local businesses in the US that aren’t already using AdWords. Google [...]
Online retail giant Amazon announced financial results for second quarter 2011, reporting an increase in sales of 51% compared to the same period last year. The company’s revenue for the last quarter reached $9.9 billion surpassing Wall Street’s predictions of $9.4 billion. Amazon’s net income decreased by 8% to $191 million in Q2 compared with net [...]
According to a new report from data security company Impreva, web applications experience on average twenty seven attacks per hour, or approximately one attack every two minutes. The Imperva 2011 Web Application Attack Report offers insight into malicious web app attack traffic in the period between December 2010 and May 2011. The data security company monitored and categorized [...]
Professional networking site LinkedIn announced a new plugin on Monday called “Apply with LinkedIn” that enables job seekers to apply for positions on an employer’s website by submitting their LinkedIn profile as a resume. The company said its latest professional plugin is designed to make the job application process as easy as possible, enabling applicants to [...]
ABI Research analysts projected that the size of the location analytics market will reach $9 billion in 2016 despite the privacy issues. The research firm noted that due to the recent “locationgate” controversy, the location-based services and advertising markets have been under close watch, with main focus being placed on privacy legislation. “ABI Research believes that this [...]
Research in Motion today announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees or approximately 10% of its staff as a part of a “cost optimization program.” According to RIM’s press release, the program “is focused on eliminating redundancies and reallocating resources to focus on areas that offer the highest growth opportunities and alignment with RIM’s strategic [...]
Monster.com just launched a new cloud-based tool called SeeMore, a semantic search and analytics platform designed to help companies manage their talent databases. SeeMore is built on Monster.com’s 6Sense semantic search technology and it enables companies to search all of their recruitment resources from one central location, gain greater visibility into variety of talent pools [...]
Since 2008, Gmail users were able to install and use voice and video chat within their Gmail accounts, a feature that allowed them to make and receive one call at a time. Google added the ability to call landline and mobile phones to users in the U.S. and Canada last year. Now the company has upgraded [...]
On Tuesday, Apple announced financial results for third fiscal quarter of 2011, reporting its best quarter ever. The company reported that it sold a record 20.34 million iPhones as compared to 8.4 million in the same quarter last year, a staggering 142% increase. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads last quarter, another record sales for the [...]
TBG Digital, a company specializing in social media advertising campaigns, released a report on global advertising on Facebook revealing that companies are now putting more effort in increasing their fan base which translates into more efficient advertising campaigns. The report analyses pricing trends, success rates and sector variances related to Facebook advertising for Q2 2011. [...]
Google announced on Monday it has bought the g.co domain, a URL shortcut that will link to official Google products and services. This way, Google will make its URLs easier to share and simpler to remember for users. The search company said the only downside to short URLs is that users can’t always tell what [...]
Online retail giant Amazon today launched a new service called Kindle Textbook Rental which allows students to save up to 80% off textbook prices by renting from the Kindle store. The new service provides students with access to tens of thousands of textbooks for this school year and gives them an option to choose the [...]
comScore released a report on Friday showing a continued growth of online video content in the U.S. The research firm’s report found that during the month of June, the U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 6.2 billion viewing sessions which is a record breaking number. The same month, 178 million U.S. Internet users watched [...]
Yelp has reached an important milestone announcing that the social reviews and local search service now has more than 20 million reviews. To mark the big accomplishment, the company has created an infographic presenting various interesting stats. The heatmap of reviews or as Yelp calls it “The United States of Yelp” outlined the most reviewed [...]
On Thursday Google held the second quarter 2011 earnings conference call revealing that the company has surpassed Wall Street forecasts and reached a new record for quarterly revenue. The search giant earned $9.3 billion for the second quarter, up by 32% from the same period last year. Operating income was 32% of the revenues or [...]
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will invest a total of $5.8 billion in the Microsoft Partner Network in fiscal year 2012 to help its partners grow their businesses through combination of tools, training and incentives. Corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft, Jon Roskill, spoke at the Microsoft WPC 2011 and announced new solutions and online service incentives [...]
According to a new report by Gartner, global shipments of PCs showed a 2.3% increase in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year. Gartner reported that PC shipments surpassed 85.2 million units. The figures are well below 6.7% growth that the research firm initially projected. Gartner noted that the PC [...]
On Tuesday Facebook launched a new app called Facebook for Every Phone to further expand its reach by bringing the world’s most popular social network to 2,500 different feature phones. The new application includes News Feed, Inbox, and enables users to upload photos directly from their phones. There is also a way for users to [...]
Google launched an update for Android Market for mobile on Tuesday. The new design makes app discovery easier, the user interface is significantly improved to enable quicker download, and it now includes movie rentals and e-books for the U.S. users. “You’ll be delighted to find we’ve overhauled Android Market to make it faster, easier, and [...]
During the first day of this year’s Microsoft WPC the company’s execs discussed how partners can benefit from the transition to cloud the cloud by helping customers improve agility, focus on business goals and reduce costs. Emphasizing that cloud computing is the biggest shift ever seen in the IT, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella said that together with the [...]
Citrix announced Tuesday it has acquired Cloud.com for an undisclosed sum. Cloud.com is a leading open source cloud computing platform vendor. Its CloudStack™ IaaS cloud software platform helps cloud providers build, deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open by design. Acquiring Cloud.com, Citrix is strengthening it position as a leader in [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles and delivered a keynote speech summarizing the company’s greatest accomplishments of the year, and also gave the audience a quick look into the future. Ballmer spoke in front of 15,000 Microsoft partners from across the world and revealed that, [...]
According to Yankee Group’s latest cloud computing survey, enterprises are moving to the cloud. The top driver for deploying software as a service (SaaS) was remote/mobile user connectivity cited by 48% of enterprises—a 92% increase compared to 2010. With mobility as a motivator, 38% of enterprises project the deployment of over half of their software applications [...]
This morning Google announced on its official blog that it’s partnering with iRiver to launch the first e-reader device with integrated Google eBooks platform. The iriver Story HD e-reader will be available starting July 17 at Target retail stores across the US and on Target.com. The device will cost $139.99 and will allow users access to more [...]
Brainshark recently launched an Android app designed to provide an improved interactive experience for users when they view video presentations on Android devices. The new Brainshark App delivers superior browsing and viewing experience on Android phones and tablets and it is available as a free download in Google’s Android Market. Brainshark App allows users to [...]
Berkery Noyes, the independent investment bank specializing in the information content and technology industries, today released its Half Year Mergers and Acquisitions Trends Report for the Online & Mobile Industry. The report analyzes merger and acquisition activity in the segment across 1st Half 2011 and compares it with activity for the four previous sixth-month periods [...]
eBay has announced it is acquiring Zong, a provider of payments through mobile carriers, for $240 million in cash. Zong has partnered with more than 250 carriers around the globe to offer its mobile payment capabilities for digital goods and services in 45 countries. Zong allows consumers to pay for purchases using their mobile phones [...]
Popular video sharing service YouTube launched a new experimental design on Thursday named Cosmic Panda. The new design brings a completely new experience as significant changes have been made to the look of videos, channels and playlists. Playlists received the most notable makeover as they are now placed below the video a user is watching, and the [...]
During the event at Facebook headquarters in Paolo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new video calling feature powered by Skype, as well as the group chat feature and improvements to the chat functionality design. Zuckerberg announced new features on Wednesday and also said that Facebook has reached a new milestone, 750 million users across the [...]
On Wednesday, Amazon announced some interesting improvements to its cloud-based music service Amazon Cloud Drive. The online retailer added unlimited storage space for music, free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases and a web app for iPad. “Customers are already enjoying Cloud Drive and Cloud Player and now for just $20 a year, customers can [...]
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that Citrix® has been listed as a “Champion” in Info-Tech Research Group’s Vendor Landscape report titled, “Select the Right Vendor for Server Virtualization; Enable Server Efficiency and Cost Savings from Consolidation to Internal Cloud.” The report evaluated Citrix XenServer®, a key component of the company’s virtualization and cloud computing strategy, and [...]
According to a new joint study by Gartner, Inc. and Financial Executives Research Foundation, CIOs alone have authorized only 5% of IT investments while the CFOs alone have authorized 26% of all IT investments which indicates that their influence in IT is growing. Additionally, the survey found that 42% of IT organizations report directly to the CFO, and 33% [...]
Twitter has acquired BackType, an analytics platform aimed at helping companies understand their impact on social media sites. The acquisition was announced on BackType’s blog on Tuesday, but the post did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. BackType will be joining Twitter’s platform team, and the company says it will be developing tools [...]
Digital advertising analyst firm eMarketer published a report on Tuesday which estimates that US online advertising spending will surpass $31 billion in 2011. The report entitled “The Floodgates are Open” predicts that ad spending will pass 20 percent growth this year and continue in double digits throughout 2014. Total online ad spending will get close to [...]
Panasonic Corporation announced the launch of VIERA Connect Developers (http://developer.vieraconnect.com), a public web portal, to invite IPTV application developers to write applications for its VIERA Connect cloud-based TV service. The new portal allows developers to take advantage of quick response and rich multimedia HD expression capabilities of its VIERA Connect platform. Applications built for the [...]
The world is getting smaller thanks to modern technology; but unfortunately, aches and pains are growing as a result. The excessive use of mobile devices and incorrect posture while using smart phones and other gadgets or while sitting in front of a computer can lead to neck, back, wrist and even thumb pain, in addition to [...]
The latest study from Juniper Research has determined that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach $670bn by 2015, up from $240bn this year. These forecasts represent the gross merchandise value of all purchases or the value of money being transferred. The new [...]
Search engine giant Google temporarily shut down its Real-time Search feature. On Monday Google Realtime Team shortly explained the move in a Twitter post saying “We’ve temporarily disabled google.com/realtime. We’re exploring how to incorporate Google+ into this functionality, so stay tuned.” Real-time Search was launched in 2009, and the feature integrated news updates from various [...]
Consumers around the world will spend more than $74 billion on gaming in 2011 according to the latest report by analyst firm Gartner, Inc. Spending on the gaming ecosystem which, among other, includes gaming consoles such as Sony PlayStation, gaming software and mobile gaming, will increase by 10 percent by the end of the year [...]
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Benchmark Capital have formed Hortonworks, an independent company consisting of key architects and core contributors to the open source Apache™ Hadoop™ technology!. The formation of Hortonworks increases investment in the development of Apache Hadoop and will accelerate adoption by making it more robust and easier to install, manage and use [...]
Research surveyed latest technology developments and public sector CFO responses A recently released survey, Trends in Technology 2011: The Information Explosion, conducted by the Association of Government Accountants, concluded that governments must reexamine business processes to take best advantage of the deluge of data available while managing new threats. Failure to do so means governments can become [...]
Google has added new tools to Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools that allow you to monitor the effect that +1 and other social plugins, such as Facebook’s Like Button, have on your website’s traffic. The new +1 analytics includes Search Impact Report which shows you how +1s impact your organic search traffic. You’ll be [...]
Largest hosted and managed services transaction to date demonstrates commitment to rapidly growing industry. Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., (NYSE: TDS, TDS.S) parent company to TDS Telecommunications Corp., announces it will acquire OneNeck® IT Services headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. for a purchase price of $95 million. OneNeck, which generated annual revenues of $37 million in [...]
Public Cloud Services Growing Four Times Faster Than Overall Spending Worldwide IT spending is on pace to grow 7.1 percent in 2011, according to the latest quarterly spending outlook by Gartner, Inc. Analysts have revised overall IT forecast spending growth in U.S. dollar terms, up from their first quarter update, when they projected 5.6 percent [...]
Dimension Data announced today that it has acquired OpSource, an enterprise cloud company, in a deal that will see Dimension Data, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Holdings, accelerate its cloud computing services offerings. At the same time, Dimension Data, a US $4.7 billion ICT services and solutions provider has created a centralised Cloud Solutions [...]
Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving IT organizations to quickly adopt new approaches such as composite application architectures and cloud services. As the quest for quickly delivering high-quality business services continues, IT management – from automation and security to governance and service assurance – becomes the most critical factor for [...]
Skype just launched an updated version of its Android app that will allow users of Android phones to make free video calls to Skype contacts on the iPhone, Mac, Windows PCs and TVs3. Skype for Android with video works over both Wi-Fi or 3G data connections. Initially, Android phones that support video calling will include the HTC Desire [...]
News Corp sold MySpace Wednesday to digital media company Specific Media for $35 million, a small portion of the $100 million the company was initially seeking for once most popular social media site. In 2005 News Corp bought MySpace for $580 million which back then was one of the most visited websites in the world. However, [...]
This is a follow up post on Amazon terminating its associate members in California. The following is the text of letter to Amazon Associates informing them of the termination and encouraging them to move to another state: Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of [...]
Amazon has notified its Associate Members in California that it will be terminating its Associate program. This is in response to the State legislatures passing a bill requiring Amazon to collect sales tax. The following is the text of the notice by Amazon to its affiliates in California: For well over a decade, the Amazon [...]
On Tuesday Google announced its new project called Google+, the search company’s latest effort to enter the social media space. After the failures of previous social initiatives such as Buzz and Orkut, Google took an entire year to develop this new service which seems to be a much more serious competitor to Facebook with the main [...]
According to a new IDC Digital Universe study called “Extracting Value from Chaos” the world’s information is more than doubling every two years. The report forecasts that 1.8 zettabytes of data will be created and replicated in 2011. The EMC sponsored study outlines that 1.8 zettabates of data is the equivalent of filling 57.2 billion [...]
Microsoft has officially launched its cloud service Office 365. The software giant announced the availability of its latest cloud-based offering today at the media events across the world. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it unifies Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date subscription based cloud service. Microsoft [...]
According to a new report by Pew Research Center, ownership of e-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle has doubled to 12% since November 2010 among the adult population in the US. Pew says that this is the first time that ownership of e-readers reached double digits in the US since the research organization began measuring the [...]
On Monday Twitter launched a guide for journalists called “Twitter for Newsrooms” intended to help reporters get the most out of the micro-blogging service. The guide contains valuable resources that will educate journalists and media organizations on how to best leverage various Twitter tools for finding sources, publishing their stories, and also for promoting their [...]
Google announced Monday that it will start rolling out the ‘+1 button’ on Google search pages globally. The search company launched its social search feature few months ago on English search results on Google and shortly after made it available for the publishers to embed on their websites. “We’ll be starting off with sites like [...]
Many IT leaders are attempting to manage “big data” challenges by focusing on the high volumes of information to the exclusion of the many other dimensions of information management, leaving massive challenges to be addressed later, according to Gartner, Inc. Big data is a popular term used to acknowledge the exponential growth, availability and use [...]
InformationWeek Analytics, the service for peer-based IT research and analysis, announced the release of its latest research report; Promises, Promises: A Not-So-New SLA Model encompasses analysis of our latest SLA survey results and guides readers in determining how to make the most of external service-level agreements as many IT functions move to the cloud. More than [...]
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and its Cyber Security Alliance partners released a study revealing security remains the single biggest concern on the minds of government information technology decision-makers when it comes to cloud computing. Despite these security concerns, 50% are now considering cloud applications for their agencies, versus only 12% a year ago. Two-thirds of [...]
Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the People Cloud provider launched Saba Social Learning. Saba Social Learning helps employees, partners and customers better connect, collaborate and learn in a versatile and social environment, often referred to as ‘informal learning.’ In addition to the general availability, Saba is also providing a free, 30-day trial of Saba Social Learning to enable organizations [...]
Clearwell Systems, a leader in intelligent e-disclosure, today announced findings from a survey conducted in conjunction with analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). A survey, titled “Trends in E-Discovery: Cloud and Collection,” highlights the rise of litigation, the enterprise trend toward bringing e-disclosure in-house, and, in particular, the growing impact of cloud computing and social [...]
Thursday at the GigaOm Structure conference, Bob Toohey, President of Verizon Business, talked about the reasons behind the purchase of Terremark, a leading cloud provider which Verizon bought in January this year. Mr. Toohey took the opportunity to announce Verizon’s Expanded IT Solutions Portfolio that combines the industry-leading cloud, security and IT capabilities of Terremark [...]
Cloud-based backup service Mozy announced Thursday the availability of its mobile app for MozyPro® customers. The Mozy mobile application allows users to securely access the files they protect with MozyPro from an Android or Apple iOS device. Mozy launched its mobile app in March this year and is now making it available for MozyPro customers. Support has [...]
North Bridge Venture Partners announced Wednesday the results of its Future of Cloud Computing Survey at GigaOM Structure Conference in San Francisco. The survey was conducted in partnership with GigaOM Pro and The 451 Group and supported by more than 30 industry collaborators. It captures current perceptions and future expectations of cloud computing from industry experts, [...]
On Wednesday, a popular cloud storage provider Box.net announced integration with Google Docs enabling its users to create Google Docs and Spreadsheets directly from within Box and share them with other Box.net users in their network. They can now also edit 50 million existing Word and Excel files stored on Box platform. Features specific to Google [...]
AT&T announced a new, cloud-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform to help businesses quickly engage their audiences with high quality and rich website experiences. The AT&T Content Delivery Network is designed to ensure fast delivery of digital content, such as videos and graphics, and is currently being offered to customers on a limited basis. It is expected [...]
According to comScore’s Media Matrix Report, Google is the first Web property that reached 1 billion unique visits globally in a month. The internet giant hit this unprecedented milestone in May and it surpassed its closest rival Microsoft by 100 million visitors. comScore findings show that Google continues to grow in terms of unique visits [...]
GigaOM’s Structure 2011 conference kicks off today, June 22nd in San Francisco. The two-day event will include an impressive list of speakers gathered from the world’s leading cloud industry players. This year’s conference will focus on “Making Sense of the Real Cloud” giving the audience a look into the future of the cloud industry and providing [...]
Last week New Relic released the results of a study it conducted on 1 billion Web pages across the world and the findings point out that the pages simply take too long to load. During the one week study, the company monitored page loads across various browsers, both desktop and mobile. According to the research, it [...]
Keith McMillen Instruments (KMI) has launched the SoftStep KeyWorx multi-touch foot controller,the world’s first foot controlled digital interface, providing a new and faster way to operate a computer. Available for Mac and Windows, SoftStep KeyWorx is a valuable new tool for everyone using a computer, from gamers, video editors, programmers, data entry professionals, disabled people, repetitive stress syndrome sufferers, and anyone [...]
The latest version of Skype, 5.5 beta for Windows announced on Monday, comes with even deeper integration with Facebook adding more features of the most popular social network. Previously, Skype included features that enabled users to see their Facebook friends’ news feeds from within Skype, update their own status, place calls to their Facebook friends and [...]
IBM has launched new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes versus days in the event of a disaster. Disasters can cause significant damage to businesses in the loss of crucial data and revenue. Analyst estimates state that the loss of revenue during downtime is tens of [...]
Popular location based social network Foursquare just hit an important milestone reaching 10 million members. New York City based Foursquare was founded in 2009 and since then has been enabling users to check in to establishments and earn rewards for repeat visits. So far, the company received over $21 million in funding. To celebrate the [...]
At its 41st international convention in Singapore on Monday, the ICANN board of directors approved the new top-level domain name program. The new expansion of the currently existing 22 domain names will add practically limitless number of new generic TLDs. The move represents one of the biggest changes of the Domain Name System since its inception [...]
McAfee has made significant improvements to its security management solution, providing automated and real-time security and risk analytics to proactively manage and report on enterprise security. The McAfee Security Management solution integrates the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform, McAfee® Risk Advisor, and McAfee endpoint products to enable organizations to gain complete visibility of security and risk events across any on-premise [...]
Microsoft has rolled out Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) beta, a free release for noncommercial applications. The SDK is designed for developers, researchers and enthusiasts to create new experiences, including depth sensing, human motion tracking, and voice and object recognition using Kinect technology on Windows 7. The Kinect for Windows SDK can be [...]
According to a new report from comScore, the use of social media networks has doubled since 2007 when social networking represented roughly 1 in every 12 minutes spent online, and today it accounts for 1 in 6 minutes spent online. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Tumblr all reached new US audience highs during May 2011 when [...]
Yahoo! has launched two new applications for app discovery, AppSpot a mobile app for iOS and Android, and App Search on the PC. Given the ever growing number of applications in the Apple App Store which is currently at 425,000-plus apps, or in the Android Market which at the moment has 200,000 apps, it is [...]
Microsoft released findings of a survey* into a new form of Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineers and calling people at home to tell them they are at risk of a computer security threat. The scammers tell their victims [...]
Yesterday at a special event in San Francisco named “Inside Search,” Google announced several improvements to its desktop and mobile search products. The mobile version of Google search is empowered with two newly designed features. The search giant made it easier for users to discover nearby places, such as bars, restaurants, and coffee shops, by [...]
Citrix has made a strategic investment in Cotendo, a mobile content acceleration and optimization services provider, to drive innovation in delivering mobile apps across all devices and across the globe. The partnership will enable Cotendo to use Citrix NetScaler cloud networking infrastructure with Cotendo’s CDN to provide hybrid acceleration and optimization solutions for the new [...]
Comcast announced on Monday that it has partnered with Skype to enable Comcast subscribers to make HD video calls through their televisions. The company said its customers will soon be able to make and receive Skype video calls from their TV, whether their contacts use Skype on their TVs, or other Skype-compatible devices, such as [...]
After allot of speculation, Google officially confirmed on Monday that it has bought Admeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers. The search giant said that the move will simplify the ad management process for publishers. Neal Mohan, Google VP of Display Advertising, explained in a blog post that today there are different ways for publishers to [...]
During the last week’s Cloud Expo, Dell surveyed IT professionals attending the event and the results of the survey revealed differences between IT pros and their non-technical senior executives when it comes to the potential of cloud computing. 47% of respondents were most likely to perceive the cloud as a continuation of long-term trends toward [...]
