RWW Founder Richard MacManus Starts His Next Chapter
Last night, which was today, New Zealand time, Richard MacManus announced his departure from ReadWriteWeb. He was our founder, navigator…
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Articles tagged "Announcements"
Fri, 12 October 2012
Wed, 29 August 2012
Get Ready For The Madness: Next Month's Schedule of New Mobile Device Announcements
During any given year, new mobile devices are announced and released like clockwork. The Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile World Congress…
Wed, 13 June 2012
ICANN Reveals New Top-Level Domain Applicants
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed the list of applicants applying for new generic Top Level…
Thu, 24 May 2012
New Prize for Bio-Sensors Announced by X Prize Foundation
Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.25 million Nokia Sensing X Challenge to produce a new generation of health care and biometric…
Blowing the Cloud Wide Open: Box.net to Begin Negotiable Enterprise Licenses
The generally accepted definition of "cloud services" - even the one prescribed by the U.S. Government (PDF available here) - includes the…
Wed, 23 May 2012
Oracle Bets Big on Social Message Management, Acquires Vitrue
There's a belief (which, for some, has metastasized into a desperate hope) that how you say something online, not so much what you say…
Tue, 22 May 2012
Salesforce's Chatter Elbows Microsoft's Skype Out of the Enterprise
Salesforce users are starting to understand that Chatter, the messaging and transactions system for the entire Force.com platform, is…
Tue, 24 April 2012
Salesforce Builds a Cloud-based Apps Market Just for Governments
Public sector technology workers can only look with envy on what Salesforce and its Force.com apps have been able to achieve in commercial…
Fri, 20 April 2012
Kaazing Launches WebSocket Platform in Amazon's EC2 Cloud
It's the stateful communications protocol that HTTP lacked from the very beginning, and now it's a key component of the latest versions of…
Wed, 11 April 2012
Yammer Acquires OneDrum.com
Corporate microblogging and enterprise social networking tool Yammer has taken some of its latest investment funding and made its first…
Mon, 9 April 2012
GoGrid Introduces Predictive Analytics Platform
GoGrid today introduces its Big Data Solution predictive analytics platform. It adds features that combine the best from cloud computing…
Tue, 3 April 2012
New Managed Content Protection from CloudFlare
It's been a few years since we checked back on CloudFlare's distributed DNS and content delivery services. Last week, the company…
Wed, 28 March 2012
Box Launches Its Own Enterprise Cloud Operating Ecosystem
Starting now, you'll be able to download enterprise-class apps that directly use your Box.net cloud-based workspace, and build what is…
Mon, 26 March 2012
Improve Your VDI Performance With New Add-in Hardware From Teradici
Remember the days when you needed to add a graphics card in your PC to support higher resolution displays? That is the idea behind a new…
Wed, 14 March 2012
Next, Salesforce Aims to Obsolete the CMS with Site.com Launch
Here's the proposition: If your business fronts a marketing Web site, perhaps with a digital storefront and probably with additional…
Mon, 5 March 2012
The Best SLA Ever
You no doubt are somewhat cynical about service level agreements (SLAs), those little-reviewed documents that promise the level of service…
Mon, 20 February 2012
vCider Creates Mixed Virtual Private Clouds
If you run multiple cloud providers in your shop and are looking at ways to connect them with virtual networks, then vCider with its Virtual…
Mon, 13 February 2012
Nimbula 2.0 Provides Complex Cloud Orchestration
We have been big fans of Nimbula since the company launched a few years ago with its hybrid cloud management tools. Today they announced…
Tue, 7 February 2012
Red Hat's GlusterFS Appliance for Amazon Now Totally Virtual
One thing you don't quite get accustomed to in reporting developments in cloud technology is how even the virtual things become virtualized…
Wed, 1 February 2012
Alfresco Makes its CMS More Social
Today, Alfresco today launches its Enterprise v4, perhaps the biggest update since they began operations. The new software comes with mobile…
Sun, 29 January 2012
HP Cloud Services Goes Into Beta
HP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lot of promise but not much in the way of actual implementation…
Tue, 24 January 2012
Tibbr Has a New Twist on Geolocation
We haven't written much about TIBCO's enterprise social media tool tibbr since a year ago. But they have interesting news, including updates…
The 4-Terabyte Data Object Store: CAStor's Latest Volley Against RAID
Last month, we introduced you to a cloud-based backup system called CTERA - a practical demonstration of the flexibility of the underlying…
Mon, 23 January 2012
InfiniBand Acquisition Puts Intel Back in the Networking Business
Two technologies have made the quantum speed leaps in high-performance computing possible. One is the rapid ascent of commercial…
