As Internet Explorer Wanes, MSN Tries iPad Route For Its Content
MSN UK wants to be a self-contained content brand, and it’s not afraid to use Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rivals’ devices to do it. Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo: Revenues Slightly Down, Investors Await Words Of Wisdom From New CEO
In its first earnings announcement since recently appointing Scott Thompson as its new CEO and the seeing off founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo (NSD… Read more at paidContent »
A CTO’s take on cloud
Joe Coyle, CTO of global integrator Capgemini, sees a lot of cloud pitches from all the major technology vendors — and God knows they all have a cloud strategy. Here’s what he thinks of the current state of the market. Read more »
Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on v… Read more at paidContent »
Analysts: Nokia Shipped Around 1.3 Million Lumias In Two Months
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shipped more than 1 million of its Lumia Windows Phone devices in the two months since they went on sale in Europ… Read more at paidContent »
IBM, Microsoft tout fat cloud progress, but proof is thin
To hear IBM and Microsoft tell it, their respective cloud strategies are coming along nicely, thank you very much. But given the hazy definitions of cloud computing and the lack of real numbers, it’s hard to tell if that really is the case. Read more »
Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services
Polar Mobile — the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustr… Read more at paidContent »
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Amazon’s DynamoDB: rattling the cloud market
DynamoDB, AWS’ latest effort to rock the technology establishment, has many implications for other players in the big data and cloud computing markets. A new GigaOM Pro research note examines just who is affected, and how. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Q4 Wrap-up: SOPA and the future of digital content
From SOPA to Microsoft’s expanded Xbox live platform to cloud-based content storage from Apple and Google, the fourth quarter in consumer electronics and media was all about the continued battle for digital living room dominance. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Microsoft On Target In Fourth Quarter But Windows Sales Still Sliding
Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings came in about where Wall Street had expected, but the decline of its Windows business continued during a… Read more at paidContent »
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NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout
The fourth quarter may have lacked a dominating big-event product announcement like Q3’s Facebook platform extension or Q2’s unveiling of Google+, but the NewNet world continued to buzz along. In the battle for mind share, everyone wanted to be a platform. Meanwhile, consumer and social technologies continued to gain momentum, and new vehicles for content and service discovery presented both challenges and opportunities for NewNet companies. And it is hard to ignore the overcrowded but growing world of daily deals. This quarterly report analyzes these trends and others, and it also provides a near-term outlook of trends, technologies and companies to watch in 2012. Companies mentioned in the report include Amazon, Facebook and Socialcast. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Infrastructure Q4: Big data gets bigger and SaaS startups shine
Continuing a yearlong trend, the fourth quarter in big IT was all about big data, and Hadoop in particular. Still, many are beginning to recognize the software framework’s shortcomings, which is why this quarter also saw more attention for startups claiming easy analytics and real-time processing. Elsewhere in infrastructure, SaaS startups made out well and valuations for these companies are getting higher, and naturally there was news from the AWS camp. This quarterly wrap-up examines these events and more, including the quarter’s dark spot, the hike in prices in the hard-drive manufacturing space due to the floods in Thailand. Companies mentioned in this report include Calxeda, Heroku, Rackspace, Salesforce.com and Tier3. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
World IPv6 switch-over event scheduled for June 6
The Internet Society is organizing a pow wow of big ISPs, web companies and networking equipment providers on June 6 to ceremonially bury the world’s current Internet protocol, IPv4, and permanently implement its successor, IPv6. Read more »
Microsoft SkyDrive 'Confuses Naked With Nude', Art Account Frozen
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police – but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage servic… Read more at paidContent »
The Year Of The Dumb And Dumber, Sub-$100 Smartphone – 500 Million Of Them
We’ve heard about how the boom in smartphone popularity, the dropping cost of components and the rapid rise of Android, a “free” smartphone… Read more at paidContent »
Sweet Success For Cut The Rope: An Interview With ZeptoLab's CEO
Games rank as the most popular form of mobile content today — 68 percent of tablet and smartphone app users who downloaded an app in the pa… Read more at paidContent »
Samsung Is Doing Well; Now Raising $1B, Looking To Tizen To Do Better?
Samsung is reportedly getting ready to issue some $1 billion in bonds to expand production facilities. Meanwhile, it is starting to get a bi… Read more at paidContent »
AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of)
Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform. Read more »
Proposed spec aims to nix cloud lock-in
A group of tech companies led by IBM and including CA, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, NetApp, Red Hat, SAP — is throwing its weight behind a proposed standard to assure that applications can move between clouds. Amazon, RackSpace, Microsoft? They’re not on board, at least not yet. Read more »
CES: Our Coverage In Pictures
This past week we’ve been covering the Consumer Electronics Show, reporting on everything from Apple’s quiet tablet competitors to the unpro… Read more at paidContent »
The CES Lowdown: 1-12-12
Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES:
» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Could Sell 37 Million Windo… Read more at paidContent »
Microsoft gets another Android maker to pay up: LG
Microsoft’s patent licensing machine is back in action, lining up another Android maker: this time, LG. The Korean manufacturer signed a patent agreement providing coverage for tablets, phones and other devices running the Android or Chrome OS. The terms were not disclosed. Read more »
Jaspersoft parlays Red Hat OpenShift in BI push
The free version of Jaspersoft’s analytics software will be offered as part of Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service. As Red Hat, Microsoft, Heroku, and Cloud Foundry PaaSes compete, watch for them to add more services and capabilities just as they’ve raced to add language support. Read more »
@ CES: A Year Later, iPad Competitors Much Quieter
The definitive gadget of CES 2011 was the Android tablet, heralded by more than one company as the answer to the iPad. A train-wreck of a ye… Read more at paidContent »
Study: Search-Ad Clicks On Mobile Devices Are Growing Faster Than On PCs
In the world of search advertising, mobile phones and tablets continue to outpace performance of search ads on PCs, although they still repr… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: Condé Ups UK Deputy, Microsoft, Boxwood
Here are some of the latest executive hirings and exits from the world of digital media business… Read more at paidContent »
@ CES: Dell Sets The Stage For Yet Another Stab At Making A Tablet
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air… Read more at paidContent »
The CES Lowdown: 1-10-12
A look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES
» Panasonic flirts with irrelevance with MySpace TV par… Read more at paidContent »
@ CES: Microsoft Mails In Last Keynote Appearance, Wasting Everyone's Time
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) used its hallmark spot on the CES 2012 schedule to prove just how pointless it is to put on a million-dollar keynote… Read more at paidContent »
@ CES: The Smartphones, They Are Everywhere!
The first day of CES 2012 was a mobile one: dozens of new smartphones and tablets were announced as traditional PC companies and rising smar… Read more at paidContent »
@ CES: Nokia Determined To Battle In America With Lumia 900
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop was long on the military metaphors during his company’s press conference at CES 2012, speaking of the nee… Read more at paidContent »
SEC Watch: Apple's CEO Cook Got $378M In 2011 As He Took On Jobs' Reins
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The late Steve Jobs famously drew a $1 salary when he was CEO of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), with other compensation coming in the form of millions… Read more at paidContent »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Inks Multiscreen Deal With MobiTV
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, to… Read more at paidContent »
What To Expect At CES: Tablets, TVs, And Transition
The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place… Read more at paidContent »
Correction: Razr Ain't Cutting It: Motorola Mobility To Fall Short On Q4
Correction: An earlier version of this article noted Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility’s revenue in “millions” not “billions”. It has now been c… Read more at paidContent »
