I recently said the HTC Sensation 4G may be the best phone on T-Mobile’s network. Now that the myTouch 4G Slide is available, has my opinion changed? The new phone does have some trade-offs, but you gain a hardware keyboard and a fantastic 8 megapixel camera. Read More »
Archive for July 2011
For anyone who didn’t know, Facebook is a huge Hadoop user, and it does some very cool things to stretch the open source big data platform to meet Facebook’s unique needs. Today, it detailed how it migrated its 30-petabyte cluster from one data center to another. Read More »
Mobile Future Forward is a unique gathering of some of the most influential minds in the mobile industry. Visionaries from around the globe will gather in Seattle on Sept. 12 to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the mobile universe. Read More »
There’s a shift happening in the workplace. A significant and growing proportion of the workforce is now made up of “Millennials” But how can businesses support Millenials at work; how do they expect to communicate, collaborate and get things done? Read More »
European startups have a long history of trying to break the American market — a move that works for some but not all. Now the CEO of print-on-demand website Photobox says that Europe’s entrepreneurs should learn from history if they want to build strong companies. Read More »
Project Runway viewers are already big social media users, sharing thoughts about the show while watching it live. So why not use Twitter as a way for fans to vote for their favorite contestant. That was the thinking behind Project Runway‘s Fan Favorite contest. Read More »
HP has joined OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project led by Rackspace. HP joins fellow IT heavyweights Dell, Cisco, Intel and Citrix as OpenStack contributors, which should help ensure that OpenStack is supported by a wide variety of enterprise hardware and software products. Read More »
Close to 60 percent of all Netflix subscribers access the video service through a game console or another connected or mobile device, according to new data from Nielsen. Hulu, on the other hand, has a far smaller footprint in the living rooms of its users. Read More »
Telecom companies have known for some time that their industry’s carbon footprint will grown and that presents an opportunity. Verizon announced on Wednesday it will turn to a national lab for help to come up with marketable energy saving technologies. Read More »
VantagePoint Capital Partners and musicians unite in support of safe, clean energy. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Jason Mraz, Tom Morello, and others will perform a benefit concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA on Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 3:00 pm.… Read More »
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