Get out the rum, open-source cloud operating system OpenStack has a new release, and its name is Havana. The OpenStack Foundation names its software releases in alphabetical order. This year it’s the letter “H,” and, because the Design Summit will be held in Portland in April this year, the members of the OpenStack technical committee nominated different Oregon […]
Posted on January 31st, 2013 by admin
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The idea of the open cloud has different meanings. There are open infrastructure groups that are working toward federating clouds at the infrastructure level. These are groups such as OpenStack and Cloudstack, two of the most well-known efforts to help companies build their own clouds. And then there are the hosting providers who serve the […]
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This is either beginning or the end for BlackBerry (formerly known as RIM). This is BB1o day, when BlackBerry debuts its smartphone running its latest software. The company’s hopes are resting on this bold new device, and to some extent, a nation’s as well. I’ve been using the BlackBerry Z10, RIM’s flagship BB10 handset, for […]
Posted on January 30th, 2013 by admin
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Michael Dell is trying to get control of Dell, Inc. with as much as $1 billion of his own personal funds. His goal: shift the company’s focus from PC sales to a more enterprise-focused company that can operate without the pressures of being publicly traded. According to Bloomberg, Dell, who now owns 15.7 percent of […]
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Today, it seems that Cisco’s international buying spree continues. acquisition of Israeli mobile startup, Intucell, for $475 million in cash last week, the company announced this afternoon that it is acquiring Czech network security startup, Cognitive Security. The terms of the acquisition were not made public. In its announcement today, Cisco Head of Corporate Business […]
Posted on January 29th, 2013 by admin
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NewVoiceMedia, an enterprise startup riding the wave of cloud-based services, has raised $20 million for its business of contact center solutions, which currently serves 8,000 agents in 30 countries. The Series B round was led by Highland Capital Partners and MMC, with participation from existing investors Eden Ventures and Notion Capital, and brings the total […]
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Last week I stopped by the offices of FMYI, a small Portland-based company that is one of the first enterprise social networks to use Twitter Bootstrap. I wondered why a tiny startup with some very big customers would turn to a brand-new framework for designing the latest version of its collaborative community-development application. After talking to […]
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Last week I stopped by the offices of FMYI, a small Portland-based company that is one of the first enterprise social networks to use Twitter Bootstrap. I wondered why a tiny startup with some very big customers would turn to a brand-new framework for designing the latest version of its collaborative community-development application. After talking to […]
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“People don’t take smoke breaks anymore — they take Facebook breaks.” Now, there’s a beauty that I heard this afternoon at the IBM Connect event here in Orlando. You can blame it on the digital natives — the young ones who feed their activity streams to network and create their digital personas. For them, it’s […]
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IBM Connect starts today in Orlando. And the story here for IBM is about the chief marketing officer and that high-ranking executive in human resources. For marketing it means reaching customers and prospects. For HR — it’s about tools for the pros and the ones who are still learning the ways of social business. The […]
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