Daily Archives: August 18, 2011

Mobiado’s Grand Touch Phones: Android For The Stupidly Rich

August 18, 2011
Mobiado’s Grand Touch Phones: Android For The Stupidly Rich

The Canadian luxury buffs over at Mobiado have been churning out obscenely expensive (not to mention obscenely designed) phones since 2004, and if you were to look at their line-up, one thing would become immediately clear: none of them are worth the price. Dumbphones swathed in gold and pearl inlays are still dumbphones, after...

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HP CEO: Why We Shut Down Palm (HPQ)

August 18, 2011
HP CEO: Why We Shut Down Palm (HPQ)

See Also: REPORT: HP To Make $10 Billion Bid For Autonomy How HP Spinning Off Its PC Business Would Affect Microsoft CONFIRMED: HP Buys Autonomy For $10.2 Billion On the company’s earnings call this afternoon, HP’s Leo Apotheker and CFO Cathy Lesjack explained why the company is shutting down the Palm hardware business. It...

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HP Looks Like It Wants To Sell WebOS Rather Than License It

August 18, 2011
HP Looks Like It Wants To Sell WebOS Rather Than License It

Image: Palm See Also: HP May Expand Its WebOS To Cars And Kitchen Appliances HP Killing The TouchPad And Other WebOS Devices How Much Is The Carcass Of Palm Worth? HP’s developer relations head Richard Kerris just tweeted this about the company’s shutdown of the Palm hardware business: “HPWebOS is an awesome software platform...

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CHART OF THE DAY: What Will Be Left When HP Spins Out Its PC Business (HPQ)

August 18, 2011
CHART OF THE DAY: What Will Be Left When HP Spins Out Its PC Business (HPQ)

When HP spins out its PC division, what will be left in the company? Everything below except for the “Personal Systems Group.” And really, that’s not so bad. The Personal Systems Group, which is home to the PC business, has been basically flat for the past four years. Meanwhile, its services business has been...

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Salesforce Posts Record Quarterly Revenue Of $546M; Raises Guidance

August 18, 2011
Salesforce Posts Record Quarterly Revenue Of $546M; Raises Guidance

Salesforce just posted its Q2 2012 earnings today, posting record quarterly revenue of $546 million, which is up 38% Year-Over-Year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share increased 3% year-over-year to $0.30. Analysts expected EPS of $0.30 and $529 million for revenue. Subscription and support revenues were $509 million, an increase of 38% on a year-over-year...

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Skitch, Much Loved Mac Screencap App, is Acquired & Coming to Mobile

August 18, 2011
Skitch, Much Loved Mac Screencap App, is Acquired & Coming to Mobile

Skitch, a popular Mac desktop app for quickly snapping, marking up and sharing screenshots, has been acquired by ambitious archiving service Evernote, the companies announced today. Also announced: Skitch for Android, iPhone and iPad. The Android version is available today but, unfortunately, appears to focus on annotation of photographs instead of helping capture the...

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Check Out This Drupal Cloud Hosted Service From Acquia

August 18, 2011
Check Out This Drupal Cloud Hosted Service From Acquia

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. For companies looking to develop and then test, stage and run a Drupal...

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Now part of Evernote, Skitch app will be free

August 18, 2011
Now part of Evernote, Skitch app will be free

Evernote, the notetaking software program aimed at helping users “remember everything,” has acquired image-sharing app Skitch. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Skitch is a Mac application that enables easy image editing and sharing. Skitch, which had previously cost $19.99 in the Mac App store, will now be completely free and...

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GE shows off uber-green LEED platinum data center

August 18, 2011
GE shows off uber-green LEED platinum data center

128 cabinets of high-density, high-efficiency servers Achieving the ultimate in green building badges — the LEED platinum certification — is pretty rare, and it is particularly unusual for data centers. But on Thursday, GE showed off its new LEED platinum-certified data center in Louisville, Ky., and the facility is 34 percent more energy efficient...

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iFixIt Launches Dozuki, A Cloud Service For Manuals

August 18, 2011
iFixIt Launches Dozuki, A Cloud Service For Manuals

iFixIt, known for their Apple upgrade guides and supplies, is branching out into cloud services for hardware, appliance, and chemical manufacturers. The new project, called Dozuki, is currently in beta and it aims to streamline the process of technical documentation by creating a Wiki-like environment for documentation and how-tos. The company has been testing...

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