Google Release a Major Upgrade of Google Maps Google Maps is, perhaps, one of its most influential and groundbreaking services developed by Google. It’s up there with search and email. Suddenly, the world knew where to go without having to roll up their window to ask someone for direction. In true Google fashion, they have…
Enterprise Startups SDN Market Reaches $4 Billion Software-defined networking (SDN) changes the way companies build their IT networks. Instead of buying expensive routers and switches with a lot of fancy features from the likes of Cisco, companies can buy simpler, cheaper hardware, and less of it, and those fancy features are handled by a new…
IDC Estimates Global Market for SDN to Reach $50 Billion by 2017 According to IDC, in 2013 the global market volume of the software defined network (SDN) market and enterprise networking will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across all categories, by 2017. The volume of the Layer 2-3 switch market…
Yahoo Rediscovers Mobile – Will it Work This Time? With Yahoo’s new plan to focus on mobile, we can expect the company to close some of its online services like the local events calendar and a coupon site as told by its Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer. Yahoo! Kids and Yahoo! Deals and […] Related…
RightScale Sees Increase in Multi-Cloud Use and Adoption Cloud computing is catching on in business, but not all alike, as recent reports say. For example, the firm RightScale that mediates between users and public cloud services announced the latest analysis on the issue and found that 75 percent of respondents are using the cloud to…
Oracle Introduces Big Data Appliance Applications Available this May, Oracle has announced the release of new applications which will put the company in close competition with SAP. Taking advantage of in-memory computing, applications available next month include Oracle SCM In-Memory Consumption Driven Planning, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Project […] Related Articles: Oracle Buildup on Cloudera’s…
What’s Next for Facebook? Facebook seems to have two different timeline layouts now. My professional FB account has all the updates on the right and the basic info on the left. My personal account still uses the very controversial two column timeline. I am not sure what exactly is going on but I am sure…
Twitter Enhances Its Cards Feature to Support Mobile Apps In a recent gathering of developers, Twitter announced its updated iPhone and Android applications which will support its newly launched Twitter Cards. The cards introduce new contents like photo galleries, product information, applications which can be contained in expanded tweets. Aside from the Twitter Cards, Twitter…
New Android Malware Hits Tibetan Activists’ Mobile Phones According to Kapersky Lab researchers Denis Maslennikov, Kurt Baumgartner, and Costin Raiu, this is the first time that there has been a target Android malware attack against mobile phones. Furthermore, people at Kapersky Lab had traced the malware to a Chinese server in LA. The […] Related…
MIT-backed DBSeer Improves Cloud Computing Performance by 95% DBSeer, a software system developed by MIT researchers, can improve cloud computing performance as well as reduce hardware requirements by 95%. It makes use of techniques in order to create more accurate models of resource demands and performance in database-driven applications. This is basically the content of…