Alcatel-Lucent is releasing a methodology for APIs that it is making available through Creative Commons. It is part of a new consulting practice the telecommunications company has established to help its service partners and enterprise customers develop, deploy and maintain APIs. Alcatel-Lucent has made APIs a focal aspect of its business by offering them to […]
Posted on August 16th, 2012 by admin
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Cisco beat fourth quater analyst expectations with net sales up 4% compared to last year. Overall revenues were $11.7 billion with reporting of 47 cents per share. For the year, net sales were $46.1 billion , up 7% compared to last year. Analysts had forecast a profit of 45 cents a share, on revenue of $11.62 […]
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I had a briefing yesterday with BizSlate, a SaaS player that is launching its beta today to help all those small businesses growing so fast that Quicken just doesn’t do the job. I like this company’s spunk. Its founder, Marc Kalman, is super fired up. You can see it in the app his team built. […]
Posted on August 15th, 2012 by admin
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MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. While Mechanical Turk has its appeal, as a way to hire cheap labor to complete basic tasks through an online, crowdsourced marketplace, but the system […]
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The race for smaller and more innovative electronics is on, and Samsung has a stake in the space on multiple levels: as a seller of consumer electronics products itself, and as a component supplier for the products of other companies. To that end, today its investment arm, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, announced it was leading […]
Posted on August 14th, 2012 by admin
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The ranters are out in force this afternoon about Red Hat announcing the preview of its OpenStack distribution. It’s like OpenStack inserted a lightning rod into my TweeetDeck stream. OpenStack really pisses people off. You either despise it or love it. And that’s why the open cloud effort will survive. Anything that polarizing is bound […]
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Power Point has spurred a refresh in innovation from companies that know there are better way to do presentations. You can see this innovation with new companies such as SlideKlowd.com, which shows the new capabilities that come with smart phones and tablets in presentation environments. SlideKlowd, developed by Klowd.com, offers a service that creates connections […]
Posted on August 13th, 2012 by admin
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Some consolidation up in the clouds: Colt Technology Services has bought ThinkGrid, an enterprise cloud startup that has created a platform for channel partners and small and medium businesses for them in turn to become cloud service providers. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it looks like it was a decent […]
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I need to lighten things up a bit with all this Oracle brouhaha. Oracle acquired Xsigo recently. I wrote about the acquisition and how Oracle will lose as IT gets virtualized. Oracle’s Bob Evans came back with his own special brand of attack. Yesterday I responded with my post: Open? Yeah, Sure. Sorry Oracle, You’re […]
Posted on August 11th, 2012 by admin
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InsideSales.com has raised $4 million from Hummer Winblad in a Series A Round that the company will use to grow its big data analytics sales force automation (SFO) technology. Joining in the round were Josh James, co-founder and former CEO of Omniture. Mark Gorenberg, managing director, Hummer Winblad, said before the funding, the company was profitable […]
Posted on August 11th, 2012 by admin
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