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Cloud Computing to Create Millions of Jobs

By greg | March 5, 2012
Cloud Computing to Create Millions of Jobs

Countering conventional wisdom, new commissioned research from IDC predicts the cloud will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015.

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Cloud Computing

“Regional Cloud Hubs” Will Significantly Change the Way State and Local Governments Procure Online Computing Services

By greg | January 19, 2012
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According to IDC, these new cloud solutions are developed in-house or are commercially developed private clouds, dedicated to govrnment use & designed to meet specific standards.

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Cloud Computing | Technology

Blade Servers for Cloud Hosting

By greg | September 9, 2011

From BizCloud cloud computing watch: Blade Servers are revolutionizing the way Cloud Infrastructure is hosted and provisioned by providing an improved modular design, which reduces useless space in the server chassis and the expensive data centre square meter space required, bundled with the lowest power consumption among the cloud server tier, but providing the same or [...]

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Internet | News

Search and Email Still Most Popular Activities on the Web: Report

By greg | August 11, 2011

According to a new report by Pew Internet Project, search and email are still the two most popular activities on the Web with 92% of US Internet users using search engines to find information on the Web, and 92% of online adults using email as well. Pew Internet surveyed 2,277 adults from April 26 to [...]

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ecommerce | Internet | News

U.S. Retail E-Commerce Spending Up 14% in Q2: comScore

By greg | August 9, 2011

U.S. retail e-commerce spending went up 14% in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year, the research firm comScore reported. Online retail spending reached $37.5 billion for Q2 representing 7th quarter in a row of positive year-over-year growth. “The second quarter of 2011 saw a continuation of this year’s solid double-digit growth trends in online [...]

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Announcements | Finance | Social Networks

LinkedIn Reports Q2 Earnings: Revenue Increased by 120%

By greg | August 5, 2011

On Thursday, professional networking site LinkedIn held a second quarter 2011 earnings call revealing that the company earned $121 million in revenue this quarter, a 120% increase compared to the same period last year when LinkedIn revenue was $54.9 million. The company has surpassed analysts’ estimates when it comes to net income, earning $4.5 million [...]

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Announcements | Technology

Google Buys Local Daily Deal Aggregator Dealmap

By greg | August 2, 2011

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 [...]

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Mobile | Technology

Apple Tops Nokia to Become World’s Number One Smartphone Vendor

By greg | July 29, 2011

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 [...]

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Advertising | Internet

Google Launches AdWords Express Aimed at Local Businesses

By greg | July 27, 2011

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 [...]

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Announcements | Technology

Gmail Now Allows You to Make Multiple Calls Simultaneously

By greg | July 21, 2011

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 [...]

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Advertising | Technology

Apple Reports Record Breaking Q3 2011

By greg | July 20, 2011

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 [...]

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Advertising | Internet | Technology

Online Video Viewing Sessions in US Reach an All-time High:comScore

By greg | July 18, 2011

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 [...]

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News | Technology

Gartner: PC Market Still in a Period of Adjustment

By greg | July 14, 2011

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 [...]

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