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Guge
In response to what it says was a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure aimed at penetrating the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, Google said today it will cease censoring results on Google.cn. ...
GreenITDiagram
Elastra has incorporated energy efficiency intelligence into its Cloud Server solution, allowing customers to define which efficiency metrics are important to them and then rely on the software to route each application to the optimal resources wi...
cloudtry
VMware, on the heels of its acquisition of SpringSource, has announced that it will acquire email and collaboration software player Zimbra from Yahoo. With Zimbra, the virtualization giant VMware is spreading out to applications, and moving stead...
Money And Phone,
Verizon Wireless next week will begin requiring a minimum $10 data plan with some new feature phones, according to information obtained by Boy Genius Report. The move not only appears to mark the carriers most expensive data plan yet, it could be ...
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Cisco has netted Swisscom as a customer for its super-fast edge router, I noticed earlier this morning. According to OECD stats, the Swiss are leaders in terms of broadband service delivery, so I read on to see what I was missing. From the releas...
DavidRecordon
After contributing Thrift (scalable cross-language services development), Hive (data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Apache Hadoop) and Cassandra (inbox search, but now used more broadly) to the Apache Software Foundation, Facebook is tod...
cellphone
The finding of a report from the telecom researchers at Bell Labs out this morning is basically: communication networks are highly inefficient. Networks could be 10,000 times more energy efficient, says the report and todays networks are optimized...
clip
Google on Tuesday announced that it will be supporting uploads of many more file types on Google Docs, and ratcheting up the size of allowable individual uploads. There are also new, affordable online storage options. The moves are aimed at both e...
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prepaid phones
MetroPCS this morning reported lower subscriber growth and increased churn in the fourth quarter as the cutthroat competition in the prepaid space continues to heat up. The company only added 317,000 customers, down 39 percent from the year-ago pe...
uptick
Forrester issued an optimistic report today claiming that the economic downturn of the last year and half is over, and forecasting that tech spending in the U.S. will grow by 6.6 percent in 2010 (though not as fast as the firm originally forecast ...
money
Flurry is building up its war chest in the wake of last months merger with Pinch Media. The mobile analytics firm this morning said it has pocketed $7 million in a Series B round led by InterWest partners and including participation from four exis...
viglink
VigLink is launching today a service to help publishers take advantage of affiliate marketing offerings for sites they already link to in their normal course of writing. While many site owners may be aware that Amazon will send them a cut of reven...
pandoraeverwhere
Now that Pandora, a next-generation online music streaming service, has turned its first quarterly profit, the Oakland, Calif.-based company is looking at life beyond the web. And by doing so, Pandora is moving to embody whats being called the dev...
GoogleLatitude
Though Googles social strategy has been catch-up at best to date, the company does have a master plan at least according to engineering director David Glazer, whom I spoke with last week at Google HQ. He said across a variety of products, Google ...