Dell had a tough second quarter with revenues down 8% as “deterioration,” proved worse than expected. Revenues were $14.5 billion compared to $15.7 billion in the same quarter last year. Third quarter revenues are expected to be down an additional 2 to 5%. Dell’s poor results show how quickly the market is shifting to a post-PC economy. […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Some consolidation is afoot in the world of mobile enterprise services. Orlando, Fla.-based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations based in Melbourne, Australia. Both companies are private and the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal is the first acquisition for Kony, which has […]
Posted on August 21st, 2012 by admin
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Sqrrl, a big data startup that came out of development at the National Security Agency (NSA), has raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture. The Sqrrl technology is promised to provide a secure, scalable and easily adaptable way for companies to manage big data. Here’s the problem with big data […]
Posted on August 21st, 2012 by admin
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HTC, the troubled Taiwanese handset maker, today dealt its investors a one-two punch. The company will take a $40 million hit from its investment in the cloud-based gaming startup OnLive, but it will also be redoubling its efforts to find new sources of revenue, this time in enterprise services: it is making a $35.4 million […]
Posted on August 20th, 2012 by admin
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Walt Disney Corporation added a bit of nonsensical anti-open source FUD to a kid’s sitcom that it aired this past weekend. But the dialogue is so ridiculous that you have to wonder if they have any clue about what they are doing. In an episode aired Friday on the Disney Channel, the show Shake It […]
Posted on August 20th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle is holding back test cases in the latest release of MySQL. It’s a move that has all the markings of the company’s continued efforts to further close up the open source software and alienate the MySQL developer community. The issue stems back to a recent discovery that the latest MySQL release has bug fixes but […]
Posted on August 19th, 2012 by admin
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The weekend is coming up and that means one thing. I have to do my expenses. It’s time to organize my receipts and make an expense sheet and invoice document. After that comes the scanning – standing over the printer, making sure the wireless is working so it syncs with my MacBook Pro. That will […]
Posted on August 18th, 2012 by admin
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Apigee’s Sam Ramji pointed out to me today that Twitter did a first when communicating with developers yesterday about its new platform policies. For the first time in recent memory Twitter has used a graphic to actually illustrate what it sees as the acceptable and not so acceptable ways to use its API. The graphic […]
Posted on August 18th, 2012 by admin
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The globalization of our economy — and the role that countries like China play in manufacturing goods that get consumed very far outside its borders — has been a big topic in the tech world. One of the sidenotes of that story is the role of shipping and distribution — an essential part of the equation, […]
Posted on August 17th, 2012 by admin
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IBM’s acquisition today of Texas Memory Systems (TMS) is more proof that customer data demands will fuel a new wave of flash technologies to replace the hard drive systems that have dominated the market for the past 30 years. The acquisition points to a number of shifts in the flash market. Alliances are changing, private […]
Posted on August 17th, 2012 by admin
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