Brett Taylor, CTO of Facebook, today announced the company is participating in “a number of industry wide initiatives” intended to support the development of the mobile web, focusing on technology standards and payment enabling. “Despite the incredible amount of work we have to do to make the mobile web great, I am extremely optimistic. In…
As cloud computing continues to thrive and as more and more enterprises penetrate the cloud, security becomes a further pressing issue. This will be one of the subjects to be impressed on the RSA Conference 2012. A special group was assigned to look into data integrity and cloud data security in the cloud. Another organization,…
ZTE has expanded on its commitment to the Windows Phone platform and introduced the new ZTE Orbit smartphone. The ZTE Orbit is based on the latest version of Windows Phone and comes with 4GB of memory, HD Voice, and a 5Mpx autofocus camera with LED flash. It will be available in the second quarter of…
Tagged Open Web Devices, the intention is to create a phone architecture that relies entirely on web technology, with all of the device capabilities including calling, messaging, browsing and games developed using HTML5 and executed via the Firefox web browser. The partners are also planning to evolve the HTML5 standard to add new interfaces which…
February 2012 – and Barcelona is becoming the hub of the mobile world again. The Mobile World Congress (MWC) or “Fiesta de los Móviles” like the locals call it will take place from February 27th – March 1st. After the congress moved from Cannes, France to Barcelona in Spain it has become the Nr. 1…
Huawei has officially announced the World’s fastest smartphone, the Ascend D quad. The quad-core smartphone runs on the Android 4.0 operating system and Huawei’s proprietary power management system. Boasting the most compact design among 4.5-inch smartphones, the Ascend D quad provides up to 30 per cent in energy savings. “We’ve listened to people’s top demands from…
The initial catalogue for the G-Cloud CloudStore has both cloud giant names Google and Microsoft included on its primary list. This comes as no surprise, but what is curious to know is whether the battle between these two giants will have a round two in the UK region. The initial catalogue has Google registered as…
Zynga has made significant contributions on the online gaming industry with its popular games such as CastleVille, Mafia Wars and Farmville. These games were initially dependent on Amazon Web Services servers (Amazon EC2) that host player’s game activities, since it required more storage and speed in 2009. Recent developments, however, took place as Zynga realized…
EMC, a giant data storage company in Hopkinton; VMWare, a cloud computing trendsetter and Atos, a French technology services enterprise will join forces to strategically plan the cloud computing framework in Europe. The result of the alliance will be the birth of another cloud computing company called the Canopy. Canopy is expected to operate a…
How do Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms compare on reliability, scalability and cost? An enterprise application like enterprise resources planning (ERP) or enterprise asset management (EAM) is comprised of multiple technologies layers, but during a software selection process it is the database layer that can be the subject of some of the most…