Chris Preimesberger

Dropbox, in a battle for market share with competitors such as Box, SugarSync, Mozy, EVault and others, April 23 launched a new feature that makes it easier for non-Dropbox people to use files stored in the cloud. Using the new collaboration feature, Dropbox subscribers now can send a Web link connecting the files or folders […]

Woopra Live Web analytics and customer engagement services: Woopra is a Web analytics and customer engagement service offered by Woopra Inc. that offers detailed individual visitor data within milliseconds and gives users the tools to analyze and measure that data in real time. It tracks 200,000 Websites, 15 billion actions per month and over half […]

Oracle’s lawsuit against fellow IT giant Google charging that it illegally used off-limits parts of Java to build its Android mobile device operating system ended its first week on April 20. However, the conversation is only getting started: This trial has been projected to last for another seven to nine weeks. The question on the […]

Google has launched yet another free service for its Gmail and G+ subscribers. Gmail Meter, activated for general use on April 19, enables Gmail users to become more aware of their email habits and tendencies. It analyzes email writing and filing patterns to present an overall sense of how email is being used. For example, […]

Texas Memory Systems joined up with another Southern-based storage company, DataCore, April 18 to launch a new line of bundled storage systems for midrange-size companies as an alternative to similar systems from Dell, Hewlett-Packard and EMC. TMS is using its RamSan solid-state disk appliances in concert with DataCore Software’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor software. They work […]

EMC, nothing if not consistent in its financial reports during the last several years, on April 19 turned in its ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year growth in terms of revenue, net income and earnings per share. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based corporation reported consolidated Q1 2012 revenue of $5.1 billion, up 11 percent over 2011; GAAP […]

For the first time in its four days, the Oracle v. Google software copyright court case in San Francisco did not feature testimony by a CEO. But a key player from Google did speak to the judge and jury April 19 about a crucial email he wrote. Oracle attorney David Boies showed several Google emails […]

Hewlett-Packard on April 19 unveiled a slate of new data center products that integrate directly with Microsoft’s new System Center 2012, which was released to general availability on April 17. The news was announced at the Microsoft Management Summit conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. HP launched its HP VirtualSystem VS3 for Microsoft, […]

Day 2 of the Oracle versus Google intellectual property argument over who owns which part of the open-source Java programming language featured testimony by a couple of key Larrys and Google’s first defense against Oracle’s opening-day barrage of charges in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison appeared to be […]

Virtualization king VMware, long one of the most successful software companies on the planet, reported another banner financial quarter April 18, adding 52 percent more income and 25 percent more profit year over year based on strong license revenue and services. Total income for Q1 2012 was $1.06 billion, an increase of 52 percent from […]

It took Google CEO Larry Page the better part of an hour to admit with a definitive “no” that his company didn’t take out a license for using Java application programming interfaces, but the company co-founder also contended in court April 18 that at the time his company didn’t believe it needed one in its […]

STORServer, one of the many vendors within the burgeoning Colorado-based enterprise storage vendor community, was busy April 17 launching a new backup system for small and midsize businesses and updating its enterprise backup appliance product line. STORServer, which sells exclusively through the channel, said that users can store from 1TB to 7TB of data per […]