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HP’s First Autonomy Products are a Smart Step Forward
Hewlett Packard revealed the first fruits of the controversial acquisition of unstructured analytics software maker Autonomy. The offerings provide an opportunity for commercial and governmental customers to sort through their big data, and has built up a very large sales channel (alongside an equally large market share, which were among the drivers behind the deal). ...
EU to Take Focused Aim at Facebook’s Brand of Privacy
The big data fuss seem to have trickled down to social media in a rather peculiar fashion. Social media networks, Facebook in particular, have faced a fair share of public scrutiny in the past year or so as users and legislators became wary about the way their data is collected, stored and used by advertisers ...
Viadeo’s Latest Buy Intensifies Battle with LinkedIn
Viadeo, the professional social network that competes against LinkedIn with about 40 million users, announced it has acquired Dutch startup Soocial for an amount equal to ‘multiple hundreds of thousands of euros,’ according to a report by a French media outlet. Soocial’s staff will now be working on fleshing out Viadeo’s platform, though the main ...
VMware On the “Right Side” of Virtualization
Paul Maritz, the head of EMC virtualization subsidiary VMware, is sticking behind the plan he’s been following, and realizing quite successfully, since leaving Microsoft to join the company. He’s naturally been among the most prominent advocates of the adoption of the new delivery model driven by cloud and virtualization adoption, and VMware is playing a ...
ARM Widens Appeal to Android Developers with New Toolkit
Chipmaker ARM, which provides a good portion of the chips that power smartphones today, is now offering free software to Android developers seeking to optimize their code for ARM processors. ARM Development Studio 5 (or DS-5) Community Edition makes the main features of the premium version available to individual developers and small smartups. The toolkit ...
This Week’s Best iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: Syncplicity Tops the List
Syncplicity’s recent launch on Android and Amazon’s highly-anticipated Kindle Fire tops this week’s roundup. The file sync and management app introduces the bulk of the features available on iOS to Google’s rivaling operating system, as well as a number of different features of great use to business users. Android Syncplicity Syncplicity had some big ...
This Week in Cloud: PaaS Expansion on the Rise
As the title highlights, a few rather significant updates poured in this past week from the as-a-service, industry in addition to other areas. For starters, the Salesforce.com-owned Heroku introduced a new database-as-a-service for the open PostGres DB. The news is that for $200 a month this is available as a standalone service, building on the ...
SAP Plans Next Investments, Faces Another Lawsuit
SAP is very ambitious to reach its target revenue goal by 2015, which is why it has been expanding and making quite a lot of investments lately. The company is now increasing its presence in the European IT consultancy sector with plans to hire 300 to 400 workers in Romania by 2014, according to SAP ...
VMware Reverses Open Mac Virtualization Policy
Users of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard got all worked about the latest release of VMware’s Fusion desktop virtualization app, at least for a short time. Version 4.1 provided what seemed to be a loophole to Apple’s strict EULA by passing on the responsibility of running unauthorized software (client versions of the OS ...
EMC Balances Out M&A and R&D
Storage vendor EMC has a very rounded-out strategy that combines a lot of acquisitions, which represent perhaps the bulk of the company’s investments, and in house development. Joe Tucci confirmed this during a keynote last month where he provided some official numbers about EMC’s spenditure: $10.4 billion went to R&D between 2003 and 2012, while ...