Vast online retailer
While most consumers know Amazon as a vast online retailer, the company as well leases its vast computer data centers to other companies. Essentially, it is a computing-power landlord to a variety of tenants ranging from Netflix to the Foursquare social networking site. More...
It's growth, but not as we know it
Large blue chips, including some consumer-oriented companies, will have to show they can counter sluggish developed economies by leveraging growth in emerging markets and research -- if Wall Street is to maintain revenues momentum then week. More...
The Importance of Community Clouds
Global Issues Affect All the Competing Organizations and Not Just OneIn a globalized economy certain natural disasters and other events like war affect every organization in a particular market segment and not just one specific organization. More...
Make social media pay
Just like every business community, the IT channel is grappling with a rapidly changing marketing landscape. Social media is now widely acknowledged as influencing purchasing decisions - it's even produced the term "the opinion cycle" - a fast moving virtual cyclone of potential endorsement or derision that can happen nearly as shortly as a new product or service is launched. More...
CTI Group Launches the Proteus(R) 7 Call Accounting Solution
CTI Group Inc. , an international provider of enterprise communications management software and services, carrier class voice over internet protocol management applications, enterprise and carrier class call recording solutions and electronic invoice processing and management, today announced the launch of Proteus® 7, the latest version of its fully scalable hosted or premised-based call accounting solution for mobile, VoIP and PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) telephony systems. More...
How to build a national cellular wireless network
A team of 20 developers in Cambridge wants to build a new radio network covering the entire country, nevertheless plans to cut costs by only offering connectivity to silicon-based clients. More...
Apple the top environmental offender in tech
Apple has long prided itself on the environmental consciousness behind its products, and consistently aims to get greener. Nevertheless according to Greenpeace's report ] measuring the amount and type of energy consumed by top tech companies' data centers, Apple is doing a poor job with its energy consumption. More...
The release of The SAFE System
With the release of The SAFE System, research designed to meet the safety demands and needs of educators across the United States, has become available for sale to the general public. More...
The IANA has run out of IPv4 addresses
The IANA has run out of IPv4 addresses. That doesn't mean that IPv4 is exhausted; it just means that the supply is gone. The IANA assigns addresses to regional internet registries, which at that time assign them to networks just as ISPs, who in turn assign them to clients, and often they then and there get assigned once more beyond that. More...
Amazon glitch raises concerns regarding 'the cloud'
“This is a wake-up call for cloud computing,” said Matthew Eastwood, an analyst for the innovation firm IDC, who used the term for accessing services and information in big data centers remotely over the Internet from anywhere, as if the services were in a cloud. More...