Maven Wave Partners Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program
“To help clients get the most out of our cloud platform products,” explained Eric Morse, Head of Sales and Business Development for Google’s Cloud Platform, “we work closely with services firms, like Maven Wave, that deliver custom applications and other infrastructure solutions on top of Google’s Cloud Platform. More...
Amazon's profit margin rises as new businesses grow
Amazon. com Inc reported quarterly results on Thursday that showed the growth of new businesses is boosting the profit margins of the world's largest Internet retailer. More...
Who Ultimately Pays for Cloud Computing? It Depends
When the department or user group of a company decides it wants to use a cloud-borne service, who ponies up with the money for the service? In the case of outside services from a providers just as Amazon Web Services or Salesforce. More...
Apple, Samsung squabble over dictionary definitions
Apple has sought to debunk claims that it infringed Samsung’s patent on 'data packaging' for 3G networks, arguing that the patented method did not move data more efficiently. More...
'Here's how you build a superfast network.'
As some broadband providers grumble about the cost of network upgrades and threaten data caps on subscribers, Google shows them, through its Kansas City Google Fiber project, how to offer subscribers 1Gbps broadband service at an affordable price. More...
Hitachi Selects Octasic's Vocallo Media Gateway
Octasic Inc. , a leading innovator of media processing and wireless solutions, today announced that its Vocallo Media Gateway multi-core DSP platform has been selected by Hitachi for use in its hybrid IP-PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) NETTOWER CX-01 targeted at large and medium-sized enterprises. More...
Amazon warns of loss in third quarter amid large-scale spending
Second-quarter revenue was $12. 83bn, up 29pc from a year before. Net income was $7m, or one cent per share, versus $191m, or 41 cents a share, a year previously, the company said. More...
Dow Chalks Up Biggest Gain in a Month on Hopes
3M Co. , the maker of Post-It Notes, and Visa Inc. , the world’s largest payments network, rose for the time being 2 percent amid better-than-estimated revenues. More...
Google Enters TV Biz, Google Fiber Debuts In Kansas City
Google became a service provider Thursday with the official launch of Google Fiber. The service at first rolls out to support television and Internet access in Kansas City, nevertheless a company Web page lets consumers enter their street address to request access in their area. More...
Why crowdsourced computing benchmarks are the future
Cloud computing and open source software have freed IT practitioners from so much legacy vendor baggage over the past few years. Isn’t it time to free them from inane benchmark boasting, too? A crowdsourced platform where users share their real-world performance experiences could help. More...