Mobile gaming continues to be on a tear, and no surprise, it’s the biggest single app category in Apple’s App Store, accounting for half the downloads of both free and paid apps. According to research data leased by Distimo and Newzoo, during the month of March, more than 5 million games were downloaded by...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. Continuing our look at business apps for the iPad, today...
Today, LinkedIn officially started trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, Facebook may not be too far behind in its own public offering. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke briefly about the possibility of a Facebook IPO at Reuters Global Technology Summit today, saying that a public offering of Facebook shares is “inevitable.”...
As anyone who has ever uploaded a high-definition video to the web can attest, it can be a painfully long process even with a high-speed connection. Now, imagine uploading videos far larger — well into the gigabyte range — all day, every day. You might get an idea of the challenges facing the companies...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. The green movement is without a doubt affecting companies both...
LinkedIn is valued at $8.79 billion after its first day as a public company. Founder and chairman Reid Hoffman and friends are drinking champagne tonight, that is for sure. It is the highest valuation after an IPO of a tech company since Google astonished the world in 2004. It is mildly amazing for a...
Health care is a mess in this country, especially the payments and insurance side of the equation. But as I mentioned in my last post on Brighter, a new group of startups are attacking the problem by giving consumers better information and tools to take control of their healthcare dollars. Let’s call it DIY...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Forrester has released its Wave report on platform-as-a-service providers for 2011. It looks...
The newer builds of Chrome 13 have added a nice feature for anyone working form a laptop or netbook with a small screen: Chrome’s Canary build now allows you to show and hide the URL bar with the click of a tab. The space savings may not seem like that much but, as Whitson...
After a decade of tech development and lining up investors including Intel, solar thin film company Sulfurcell has retooled its business plan that includes a name change, a technology shift and a focus beyond selling solar panels, company executives said Thursday. The German company is now called Soltecture to reflect its marketing and sales...