Daily Archives: December 12, 2012

A Company Backed By Jeff Bezos Is The Real Winner In The Photo Wars (YHOO)

December 12, 2012
A Company Backed By Jeff Bezos Is The Real Winner In The Photo Wars (YHOO)

Scott Beale / Laughing Squid See Also Why It’d Be Smart For Facebook To Enrage 100 Million Users Twitter Is Going To Add Instagram Style Filters For Its Photos By Year End Snapchat CEO: I Don’t Believe People Are Using My App For Sexting If you haven’t heard of Aviary yet, you will soon....

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The 10 Best Enterprise Tech Companies To Work For

December 12, 2012
The 10 Best Enterprise Tech Companies To Work For

Glassdoor See Also Can You Tell Which Of These Amazing Tech Scenes Are Real … And Which Are Movie Sets? 9 Tech Trends That Will Make Someone Billions Of Dollars Next Year Meet Yellowstone, The Supercomputer Saving The Planet Think about this: Twice as many enterprise startups have become billion-dollar companies compared to consumer...

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Google Is Going To Release Its iPhone Maps App Tonight (AAPL, GOOG)

December 12, 2012
Google Is Going To Release Its iPhone Maps App Tonight (AAPL, GOOG)

Google Rejoice, lost iPhone users! Google is planning on releasing its own mapping app for the iPhone tonight, says Liz Gannes at All Things D. As you no doubt know, Apple dropped Google’s mapping data in the latest version of iOS, going with its own maps. Those maps have not been well received. Apple’s...

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Google tests new Flight Explorer service to help you buy the perfect plane ticket

December 12, 2012
Google tests new Flight Explorer service to help you buy the perfect plane ticket

Google appears to be testing a new service called Flight Explorer. The company has not announced it, nor is there any documentation available via any of Google’s help pages. It doesn’t even have a typical Google beta tag. Yet the service is fully functional. It detects your current location and puts it in the...

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OpenFeint co-founder announces OpenKit, a GitHub-inspired open API service for game developers

December 12, 2012
OpenFeint co-founder announces OpenKit, a GitHub-inspired open API service for game developers

There’s no doubt that GitHub has transformed the way that developers work online today, and its influence has indirectly extended into gaming after OpenFeint co-founder Peter Relan announced OpenKit, an open API service aimed at bringing trust and freedom to games developers. The system is designed to all let developers take their user data and OpenKit...

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John McAfee is back in the United States after an epic, amateur Bourne-esque romp through Central America

December 12, 2012

The tale of John McAfee, one of technology’s more bizarre moments of the year, has entered what could very well be its last chapter. McAfee is now back in the United States, having taken what appears to be the American Airlines flight that he told Bloomberg earlier today that he would. Given his history of statements...

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SaaS: Enterprise Software Vendors Are Still Denying Reality

December 12, 2012
SaaS: Enterprise Software Vendors Are Still Denying Reality

As Silicon Valley girds for $1 trillion wealth transfer from the enterprise software incumbents to nimble upstarts, it makes sense to look how the entrenched players are responding the challenge. While some are buying up the competition while they still can or building their own startup-like operations (praying they won’t cannibalize their main businesses),...

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Dell Says BYOD Driving Corporate Interest In Windows 8

December 12, 2012
Dell Says BYOD Driving Corporate Interest In Windows 8

The case for Windows 8 is a response to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend? That’s the take of Dell founder Michael Dell, who told customers and partners Wednesday that corporate interest for Windows 8 is, surprisingly, “quite high.” It’s Dell’s World Michael Dell opened Dell World, its annual partner and customer showcase,...

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Big Data Boosts Storage Needs

December 12, 2012
Big Data Boosts Storage Needs

Storage has always been important to the enterprise – but the rise of big data applications puts unprecedented pressure on storage strategies and technologies. It’s also delivering unprecedented benefits to the companies that figure out how to do it right. So how big is big data? Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created...

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FCC forwards plans for a shared small-cell band

December 12, 2012
FCC forwards plans for a shared small-cell band

It was a busy day for the Federal Communications Commission. It got through two big items: approving Dish Network’s request to use its satellite spectrum for 4G and authorizing an auction of PCS spectrum that Sprint craves for its own LTE network. But after the dust cleared it took another noteworthy vote on the...

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