Monthly Archives: January 2011
SolarWinds Launches New Product, Acquires a Company
IT management software maker SolarWinds had a big day Jan. 19, coming out with a spiffy new data center product and acquiring a company...
Virtualization, Cloud Pose Backup and Recovery Challenge: Survey
A survey of more than 3,000 small to medium-size businesses (SMB) conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes towards backup and recovery...
BroadVision Launches Clearvale Enterprise for Corporate Communications
Social networking and e-business solutions provider BroadVision announced the release of Clearvale Enterprise for Corporate Communications, a platform designed to streamline the process of...
DocCom, a UK ‘Facebook for Doctors,’ Seeks Investors in Silicon Valley
Enterprise social-networking firm DocCom Solutions and 18 other UK health care companies toured Silicon Valley the week of Jan. 13, as part of the...
Facebook Spars with Sophos over Security
Facebook is sparring with security firm Sophos over a threat report touching on malware on social networks.In a report looking back (pdf) on 2010,...
Apple’s Future Is Rosy, With or Without Jobs
Apple's Jan. 18 announcement of its fiscal first quarter 2011 results was summed up nicely by Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil. In a...
AMD Unveils Fusion APUs for Embedded Devices
Advanced Micro Devices is taking the wrapping off its first Fusion accelerate processing units for the embedded market.AMD launched the G-Series Jan. 19, just...
Amazon Web Services Sprouts Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta release of a new service known as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which provides an easy way for...
Microsoft, HP Launch Converged Business, Messaging Application Appliances
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard published a roadmap outlining their launch plans for the four new converged appliances on Jan. 19. These appliances combine applications, infrastructure...
Starbucks Enables Mobile Payments via iPhone, Blackberry
Starbucks Jan. 18 said it is taking its pay-by-smartphone effort national in more than 7,800 locations around the country.Users of Apple's iPhone and iPod...