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Google Nexus One Review
The Nexus One. In the modern climate of hyped (and over-hyped) smartphone launches, Google’s official entry into the phone-sales game has excelled in a department where many find difficulty: generating legitimate excitement. Of course, long before the name Nexus One or the recent bounty of pictures and details existed, the very concept of a... »
Google Shakes but Doesn’t Upend the Mobile Phone Market
Google sure does love shaking up the system. Remember the original Google search page? It made news because your search results popped up fast and weren’t cluttered with ads. Remember when Google went public? It made news because the founders auctioned off shares to the public. Remember when Gmail came out? It made news because... »
Got Old VoIP Equipment? Check out this VoIP Buyback Program
Got some old VoIP phones lying around and want to upgrade to some newfandangled executive phone sporting a color LCD and video playback? Or how bout an upgrade to an HD IP phone? Well, VoIP Supply has your back with their buyback program. tomorrow they are launching their Reclaim VoIP equipment buyback program.... »
All Hail the iPod touch
As the competition for smartphone domination starts to heat up, it is becoming increasingly clear that the iPod touch is Apple’s ace up its sleeve, and according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, 24 million iPod touches represent about 40 percent of the total 58 million iPhone OS devices. From... »
Like Facebook, Data Robotics Dreams of an IPO
IMPORTANT POINTS Data Robotics has sold 85,000 Drobos Will do sales of $60 million in its third year of sales. Wants to go public after crossing $100 million in revenues. It’s easy to confuse the technology industry with the shiny, attention-grabbing consumer web that’s comprised of services such as Twitter and Facebook, but there’s a whole slew of... »
StarTech.com ConXit Connection Wizard Helps You Find Right Connector for Home Theater, PC, and more
Ever get frustrated trying to convert Component to HDMI or convert from one video connector to another because your TV is 10 years only and doesn’t support HDMI? Even if you are a home theater guru, the number of converter options and cabling options can be immense and downright confusing. Well, StarTech.com, a manufacturer of... »
Top 5 Innovative Community Builders On Twitter
Twitter is all about the community around it and about people (connectors) who build other vertical communities around themselves and their activities. Among the Twitter users I follow regularly, there are a couple that are real innovators in the activity of building a community and interact / engage with it. Those people are definitely a... »
Dell Inspiron Zino HD – Coolest HTPC Ever
Dell just launched the Inspiron Zino HD, a small 8″ by 8″ x 3.5″ cubed-shaped trendy-looking HTPC that aims to sit in your living room and become your centralized home media center. Comparisons of the trendy-looking Zino HD vs. the Mac Mini will undoubtedly be made. Colors for the Zino HD include... »
Cisco vs. the World: Rough Seas Ahead?
Cisco Systems, the Wall Street darling, might soon find itself in a street brawl with not only former enemies but also allies who are turning on it. The company, which once made its living selling core infrastructure products such as routers and switches, has more recently been chasing new markets such as video conferencing... »
Top 5 Innovative Community Builders On Twitter
Twitter is all about the community around it and about people (connectors) who build other vertical communities around themselves and their activities. Among the Twitter users I follow regularly, there are a couple that are real innovators in the activity of building a community and interact / engage with it. Those people are definitely a... »
With N900, Nokia Still Not Close to the iPhone
The biggest challenge for any touchscreen smartphone, no matter how good or great it is, is that it will almost always be compared to the iPhone. Some of them, like Verizon’s Droid and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Storm, seek that comparison. Others are just going to have to deal with it. Nokia’s new N900... »
Fuze Meeting, An Awesome Desktop and Mobile Collaboration App
A few days ago I came accross this application that lets BlackBerry users join powerful collaboration sessions straight from their device. I immediately realized it was just a piece of a powerful collaboration tool just launched at Demo ‘09. Fuze Meeting is a comprehensive service to manage online meetings that offers very powerful features straight... »
Microsoft Mobile’s Worst Week Ever
If you are a fan of the BBC, then odds are that you have seen the dark and comical series, “The Worst Week Ever of My Life.” It is the story of Sam Briggs, a man who wants to impress his bride-to-be’s family. And as one would expect, bad luck and hilarity follow him.... »
Fuze Meeting, An Awesome Desktop and Mobile Collaboration App
A few days ago I came accross this application that lets BlackBerry users join powerful collaboration sessions straight from their device. I immediately realized it was just a piece of a powerful collaboration tool just launched at Demo ‘09. Fuze Meeting is a comprehensive service to manage online meetings that offers very powerful features straight... »
Sidekick Data Loss-A Wake Up Call For Cloud Based Users
Danger-Your Data Is Not Really Secure With Microsoft Servers —that could be the headline in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, and it would grab a lot of attention. Another could be: The Danger of Online Storage Or another Danger In The Cloud Danger Phones Now Have Amnesia You see, redundancy doesn’t have mean you’re fired. Unless of course you’re the VP or... »
Verizon Business steps onto the cloud
Verizon Business moved into the cloud today with availability of its new Computing as a Service Solution in the U.S. and 15 European counties. The offering aims to provide scalable server, network and storage capacity to enterprises and government entities on very short notice to allow them to meet rapid fluctuations in usage. Joseph Crawford,... »
Why Both EMC & NetApp Want Data Domain
EMC Corp. announced yesterday its desire to buy Data Domain, a data backup company, for $30 a share, or roughly $1.8 billion in cash. That’s a 20 percent premium over a $1.5 billion cash-and-stock offer from NetApp, EMC’s bitter rival, unveiled two weeks earlier. Not bad for a company whose shares were trading at... »
Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps
“Hadoop is going to find potential markets in any industry where there are large data sets that need complex analysis,” Mike Olson Olsen, chief executive officer and one of the four co-founders of Cloudera, the startup that’s commercializing the open-source software framework Hadoop, told me earlier today. I spoke with Olson after the Burlingame, Calif.-based... »
sipgate enters U.S VoIP Broadband Market offering free calls
Today, sipgate is launching a new free VoIP broadband phone service called sipgate one. sipgate one is similar to Vonage, Packet8, and other broadband VoIP providers, but with some additional cool features and a fairly unique pricing plan. For instance, you get a free telephone number, no set-up costs and no monthly charges or... »
How Pogoplug Works
Pogoplug, the little gadget that turns any USB-enabled drive into a personal storage locker accessible over the Internet, impressed me as much as it did Kevin over at our sister site jkOnTheRun. But I really wanted to learn how exactly it worked. So I reached out to Pogoplug maker Cloud Engines’ chief technology officer,... »
Why It’s the Megabits, Not the MIPs, That Matter
Earlier this morning I read the comments of Eli Harari, chief executive of Flash memory chip maker SanDisk, in which he tells The New York Times’ Saul Hansell that we are counting down to the end of Moore’s Law. “We are running out of electrons. When we started out we had about one million electrons... »
Social Networking & Dawn of the Zettabyte Era
Earlier today, I stopped by at the Social Graph Symposium at Sun Microsystems’ Menlo Park campus. The event, which attracted some of the most well-known experts on social networks and social graphs, was organized to look at the various challenges and opportunities being presented by the increased socialization of the web. And there is... »
Cisco Gets Smaller
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is "getting" smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the... »
Pogoplug Gets VC Funds From Foundry Group
Earlier this week my colleague Kevin Tofel asked what would happen if Cloud Engines, the company behind Pogoplug, went out of business. To address such concerns, Cloud Engines has done two things: it promised to put its software in open source in case of bankruptcy and raised fresh venture funding from Ryan McIntyre at... »
Prediction for the Future: Entire Wireless Web in Your Pocket
Benchmark VC Michael Eisenberg submits: I can’t help but escape the following futuristic prediction, you will carry your personal version of the web in your pocket. Let me unpack that sentence: Carry – on your mobile phone Personal – Because you will not need the whole web and won’t have room to store it all and... »
F5 Enhances Data Management Solutions
F5 Networks Inc. (FFIV) has announced new software releases for its ARX file virtualization system and Data Manager storage management solution. The new capabilities in both products aim to help organizations control storage costs, improve capacity utilization and forecasting, and unlock value from existing file storage assets. Version 5.0 of Data …(187 words) ... »
Inside Facebook’s Photo Factory
Ever since I got BlackBerry 8900 with a 3.2 Megapixel camera, I’ve been busy taking photos -– randomly at times -– and uploading them to my Facebook account to share with 2,000 or so of my closest friends. Apparently I’m just one of millions of people who upload nearly 220 million images to Facebook... »
Brocade Pokes Cisco in the Eye, Switches for IBM
Cisco Systems’ decision to launch servers targeting the data center market has turned its allies against the company. To date, the biggest beneficiary of the Cisco-server blowback has been Juniper Networks — now Brocade Communications is now moving to take advantage of it as well. IBM, which already sells certain Brocade storage networking products,... »
VAR Certifies Vendors
Vendors have long called the shots when it comes to certification, but one VAR is turning the tables – certifying its vendors for enterprise-class implementations.VeriStor Systems unveiled its VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program to validate solutions from storage and virtualization hardware and software vendors. A VeriStor Certified Product demonstrates exceptional …(160 words) ... »
Our Full Analysis of the $7.4B Oracle-Sun Deal
Oracle Campus in San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. Photo via Flickr by Steve Jurvetson Updated: Less than a month after it walked away from a $7 billion deal with IBM, Sun Microsystems says that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with database and enterprise software giant Oracle. Oracle will acquire Sun common stock... »