Oracle clarifies its cloud strategy
In April 2012 Oracle updated industry analysts about its strategic directions for fiscal 2013. These include cloud computing in all its guises, from private to public and hybrid clouds, as then as infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service offerings. More...
Voice Management Leader Xtelesis Offers Comprehensive Business Communication Solutions Thanks to Partnerships
Xtelesis, a provider of voice, mobility, data and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) business systems, is spreading the word that it offers comprehensive business communication solutions by partnering with communication industry leaders like Vidyo, LifeSize, and Shoretel. More...
The $1,000 vacation cellphone bill
Using my cellphone to check e-mail during traveling internationally has always made life easier - until my last trip, in other words. . More...
FBI 'looking at' law making Web sites wiretap-ready
Director Robert Mueller says FBI needs to be able to "capture communications" of people in accordance with surveillance, however declines to elaborate on renewed lobbying effort reported by CNET two weeks ago. More...
La Vergne Offers New Emergency Notification System
The messaging system provides notices when severe weather or other emergencies occur at no-charge through telephone, email, or text messaging. Operated by Emergency Communications Network, CodeRED uses the National Weather Service's Storm Based warnings to let residents know of impeding danger. More...
Kepler, Trinity, and Ivy Bridge
Talk about a busy week on the chip beat. All three of the big PC processor companies had exciting news to share—Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its new Trinity APUs, Intel introduced Ivy Bridge to its vPro platform for business PCs, and Nvidia announced that it's bringing GPU computing to the cloud. More...
Real sweet spot
Verizon is in a real sweet spot and continues to sell more devices and add on new customers to boot to getting more revenue out of existing clients due to bandwidth pricing. More...
Hewlett-Packard plans huge layoffs
According to Reuters, each HP employee generates about $357,491 in revenue and $16,982 in net income, so then below the industry averages of $8. 18 million and $164,858. More...
Black Duck Software KnowledgeBase Reports Surge in Mobile Open Source Projects
"Black Duck metrics highlight momentum and possibility in the market, both for open source software and for enterprise developers and organizations as then," said Jay Lyman, Senior Analyst, 451 Innovation. More...
Threatened, BMC Adopts Poison Pill
In a letter to the board Tuesday, Elliott Management said BMC's future will be increasingly difficult as a standalone public company; it's suffering from sluggish growth, underperformance on its business plan and substantial execution challenges - it's changed its sales chief four times since 2010; it's been written off as a "growth-impaired legacy asset" with a low stock price; it lacks revenue-scale compared to its major competitors, IBM, HP and even CA; it's late to SaaS and the cloud; and it's facing new rivals eager to carve up its territory. More...