HPs top networking executive, Marius Haas, says HP has been able to put pressure on Cisco thanks to the company’s acquisition of 3Com this year. – For Marius Haas, 2010 was a good year. As senior vice president and
general manager of Hewlett-Packards networking business, Haas saw his
unit gain a lot more muscle in April, when HP closed on its
high-profile $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com, an acquisition that put the company in even tighter com…
The world’s most expensive website ‘Sex.com’ has been sold for a whopping 13 million dollars – that’s how much Clover Holdings LTD paid for the rights. Previous owner Escom LLC was forced to sell after mounting debts put the company in the red. “To our knowledge, this sale represents the single largest recorded price paid [...]
Barry Diller of IAC has decided enough is enough: Ask.com will not compete against Google in search and Web indexing any longer. The strategy shift back to Q&A content means 130 engineers will lose their jobs, and one of the other search companies will handle Ask.coms needs. Who? Ask.com isnt saying. – Search
portal Ask.com is eliminating 130 engineering workers from its payroll and
consolidating its workforce in one location in Oakland, Calif., over the next few
months, the company announced Nov. 9. The companys strategy now is to have
a focus on question-and-answer content–something it had …
Eighties bubblegum will meet nineties pop when Beantowners New Kids on the Block and Orlando’s own The Backstreet Boys hit the stage for an eagerly-anticipated summer tour. On Monday, the iconic boy bands came together to announce the first leg of their North American shows, set to kick off in Canada June 9. With over [...]
-”Atom.com introduces Jason Nash is Married – a brand new Web series starring Busy Philipps (Cougar Town, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Jason Nash (NBC’s Last Comic Standing, The Shaman), and Joe Lo Truglio (Superbad, Pineapple Express). The show will span nine episodes over the next four weeks and chronicles Jason’s life as a married [...]
Mark your calendars, Music Fans: Kanye West’s 35-minute short film “Runway” will premiere simultaneously on MTV BET MTV2 MTV.com BET.com VH1.com next Saturday, Oct. 23 @ 8 PM EST. The video epic is set to feature Victoria’s Secret supermodel Selita Ebanks and will be narrated by hip-hopster Nicki Minaj.
Logitech demonstrated Google TV on its Revue companion box and Keyboard Controller. Both devices are ready for preorder now from Logitech.com, Amazon.com and BestBuy.com for $299. – NEW YORK — Logitech officials Oct. 6 showed off Google TV on its Revue companion box and Keyboard Controller, which the peripherals maker began
letting consumers preorder from Logitech.com, Amazon.com and BestBuy.com for
$299.
Announced in May at Google I/O, Google TV is the search engine’s ent…
Google buys Like.com, whose visual search engine helps people match clothes and other apparel online and purchase them from retailers. – Google confirmed Aug. 20 it has acquired Like.com, whose visual search
engine helps people match clothes and other apparel online and purchase them
from retailers.
Financial terms were not disclosed, though TechCrunch said the deal is in the neighborhood of $100 million.
Like.com CEO and founder…
It has now become easy to afford handbags flaunted by celebrities like Julia Roberts and Nicole Richie after a company called AsraiStyle.com started selling the high end bags for as low as 24.99 dollars. The Simone Camille bag has just completely sold out on net-a-porter.com. They are priced at 1860 dollars also on stylist Simone [...]
On Tuesday, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner launched a new website stripped of the brand’s trademark nude Playmates in a bid to make the House That Hef Built a bit more “safe for work” — eliminating the need for men to throw themselves over their computer screen when the boss walks by!Named after one of [...]
Civil rights leader Revd. Jesse Jackson has slammed Mel Gibson amid reports he used offensive racial language in an expletive-laden, recorded argument with his ex-girlfriend. Websites TMZ.com and RadarOnline.com both claim to have copies of the audio, in which Gibson reportedly used the ”N” word while raging at Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his baby [...]
Jennifer Aniston was reportedly so concerned about looking her age in the new movie ”The Switch” she asked for parts of her body to be ‘retouched’.
The 41-year-old actress asked for changes in her looks during the editing process of the Josh Gordon-directed comedy.
“She thought she looked rough – especially in the daytime scenes,” News.com.au quoted [...]
Two professional celeb-gawkers and want to make Perez Hilton $20 million richer. The acid-tongued celebrity snitch has been offered the astounding eight-figure deal to part ways with the website that made him more famous than some of the Hollywood notables he regularly torments. Perez, who also manages a style-centered website and record label, received the [...]
Despite promises from the CEOs of Craigslist.com vowing a crackdown on the $50/per hour pussy-peddling that has been running rampant on the site for eons, a TODAY Show investigation has discovered that the activities our blogging buddies at Looseneck.com so eloquently refer to as “hoe shit” are still alive and thriving on the world’s largest [...]
Salesforce.com and VMware are joining forces to take advantage of what they see as a major new business opportunity – giving the world’s 6 million Java developers a ready migration path to a cloud application development environment. The two partners have unveiled VMforce, a cloud development platform based on the Force.com custom application development platform and the Spring Java framework from VMware’s SpringSource Division.
– SAN FRANCISCO What Salesforce.com has
done for enterprise sales professionals with its Sales Cloud applications and
for custom business application developers with its Force.com platform it will
now try to do for the burgeoning community of enterprise Java software
developers.
Salesforce has te…
3Com’s high-end networking products are what HP’s partners have been waiting for to go head-to-head against networking market leader Cisco. Now, with 3Com’s H3C line coming to North America for the first time, HP partners say they have a core to edge solution to offer the routers and switches needed to challenge Cisco’s market lead.
– HP completed its acquisition of 3Com this week, and laid out the overarching plan in terms of the product integration that will take it to war against Ciscos stronghold in the networking market.
And HPs partners, still waiting for the final word on the integration of HP and 3Coms channel partner …
Some said Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush broke up because long distance doesn’t always work. Media TakeOut.com has another theory though:
MediaTakeOut.com learned the REAL reason Reggie Bush dumped Kim Kardashian – because she SLEPT with Kanye West!!!
Here’s what happened. According to an EXTREMELY RELIABLE insider, Reggie and Kim were on the road to getting married. [...]
HP has completed its $2.7 billion deal for 3Com, a move that will expand its ProCurve data center networking portfolio and allow it to better compete in the converged data center space against rivals such as Cisco, IBM and Dell.
– Hewlett-Packard has completed its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking vendor 3Com, giving the company more ammunition in its growing data center competition with Cisco Systems.
3Com will be integrated into HPs ProCurve networking
business, and an integration road map will be rolled out at a lat…
How would you like to be a blogging rockstar for a music icon? “Unthinkable” songbird Alicia Keys appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Tuesday where she announced that she is teaming up with Monster.com and launching an online search for a talented blogger to maintain her forthcoming website IAmASuperwoman.com, which Alicia describes as a “fun, [...]
Wisteria Lane’s own Teri Hatcher will be doling out advice to women with a new site called GetHatched.com launching in May.
“I have a compelling passion to be a woman with other women. We’re the caregivers, the teachers, the lovers,” Hatcher, who stars as Susan Meyer on TV’s Desperate Housewives, says of her new venture.
DisneyFamily.com will [...]
