Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, closing in on signing up its 600 millionth user, is already the No. 1 social networking service in the world. Now it wants to become the largest and most important real-time messenger by combining the world’s most-often-used digital media: SMS texting, e-mail, chat and regular Facebook messages. Facebook Messages, which the […]

15 Promising Mobile IT Companies Flying Under the Radar by Chris Preimesberger Adility, Atlanta, Ga. Adility is a localized online distribution hub for prepaid card products and coupons. Adility enables its clients (typically a local small or midsize business) to create and manage prepaid cards and coupons and distribute them via localized daily deal sites, […]

Oracle lawyers have a six-plus-hour video deposition taken in 2008 of then-SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker discussing copyright infringement litigation against Oracle, but it may never be seen by the jury in the case because it was filmed before SAP actually admitted misusing Oracle’s IP. Apotheker, who took over as CEO of Hewlett-Packard on Nov. 1, […]

Intel is getting into the holiday season frame of mind early this year by giving its OEMs and consumer customers a special gift. The world’s largest chipmaker said Nov. 12 that it has lowered prices by 10 percent to 20 percent on its entire line of solid-state drives. It also introduced a new model to […]

In the fast-growing world of personal online storage, one major item has been static: the amount of free space given away by companies trying to lure you to buy lots more storage space. That freebie standard of 2GB — offered by several reliable services that include DropBox, Carbonite, Mozy, and others — has been increased […]

MarkLogic, which makes an XML-based database server for unstructured information, has established itself as an alternative to traditional relational database servers and search engines. The Belmont, Calif.-based company was recently noted as one of “16 Hot Companies Running Under the Radar” by eWEEK. That makes it an avowed marketplace enemy of companies such as Oracle, […]

Most people don’t want to have to think about their data and file backups, they just want them to happen quietly behind the scenes — whether it’s an onsite setup or one in a cloud service. And when users do need to dip into their backup, they want to be able to do it easily […]

Amazon Consulting, which specializes in matching up IT companies and alleviating frictions to build strategic partnerships, on Nov. 11 announced that it has acquired PartnerAlliances, a San Carlos, Calif.-based strategic alliance development company.Terms of the deal were not made available.Amazon Consulting, based in Mountain View, Calif., will now be able to expand its focus on […]

When people talk and write about solid-state data storage, most of the attention goes to NAND flash, NOR flash and static RAM.DRAM (dynamic random access memory), which is present in just about every desktop, laptop, server and storage array in the world, is sometimes taken for granted or overlooked.In DRAM news on Nov. 11, Samsung […]

Facebook revealed Nov. 11 that it plans to build its second data center in North Carolina. In a joint announcement with the world’s largest social networking Website, Gov. Bev Perdue said that the new $450 million facility will be located near Forest City in Rutherford County, about 75 miles west of Charlotte.Facebook’s first wholly owned […]

Reuters, citing unnamed sources “familiar with the situation,” reported Nov. 10 that Oracle has been using private detectives to try to locate new Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker.Apotheker is a key material witness Oracle would like to question in copyright infringement litigation it has brought against SAP, Apotheker’s longtime former employer.Reuters and other news outlets reported […]

Virtual storage provider Dot Hill Systems, which has been building its own brand after supplying its wares to large systems vendors for years, Nov. 9 launched its first unified virtual storage appliances.Dot Hill’s AssuredUVS Standard and AssuredUVS Datacenter appliances are aimed squarely at the SMB and SME markets, respectively. They combine software, servers and storage […]