Google is harnessing its controversial Street View technology to take you on a virtual tour of the world’s finest museums, from the comfort of your home. The search giant even claims its Art Project tours are better than the real thing, with one exhibit in each location available in a high-resolution image that goes beyond [...]
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Google launches virtual tour of world’s finest museums
February 3rd, 2011 |
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Google Launches Android Market Webstore During ‘Honeycomb’ Demo
February 3rd, 2011 |
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Google rolled out the Android Market Webstore to let consumers make application purchases and downloads via a Web browser from a dedicated Website. – Google Feb. 2 launched the Android Market Webstore, a Website dedicated to letting
application consumers purchase apps for their Android smartphones and tablets
from a Web browser.
To this point, users had to purchase Android apps through the Android Market
client from smartphones and tablets s…
CHT Global Launches Net2Compute Cloud Computing Platform
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Net2Compute leveraging Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) cloud computing technology. – Telecommunication solutions provider CHT Global announced the launch
of its first North American cloud computing platform, Net2Compute,
which leverages Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center
cloud computing technology. Net2Compute provides CHT Global’s
enterprise customers the ability to se…
GigaSpaces Launches eXtreme Application Platform 8.0
February 1st, 2011 |
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Openness and continuous scaling are the foundations of GigaSpaces XAP 8.0, a virtual application platform. – Virtualized application platform specialist GigaSpaces Technology
announced the launch of eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 8.0.
Openness and continuous scaling are the foundations of GigaSpaces XAP
8.0, a virtual application platform that enables end-to-end scalability
with a single product. T…
IBM Launches Social Business Initiative
January 31st, 2011 |
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IBM has launched an initiative to help businesses become more social as part of its overall Smarter Planet strategy. The push is extending social to mobile, the cloud and to developers. – ORLANDO, Fla.
– IBM is delivering its vision for the
social business of the future today in the form of its new “Social Business”
initiative.
At its Lotusphere
2011 conference here, IBM will give
attendees a look at the “perfect storm” of factors working to bring the social
business a reality…
OS33 Launches Latest Version of WebTop Cloud Platform
January 31st, 2011 |
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The platform is designed to provide access to corporate file systems and SharePoint directly from any Web browser. – OS33, a specialist in cloud-based IT delivery automation platforms for
managed service providers, announced the latest version of its cloud platform
featuring major updates to its Cloud File Manager and OS33 WebTop. This new
version is designed to provide access to corporate file systems and Shar…
CloudPassage Launches Itself, New Cloud VM Security Package
January 27th, 2011 |
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CEO Carson Sweet calls Halo the industry’s "first and only server and compliance products that specifically provide multiple-level security for elastic cloud servers." – MENLO PARK, Calif. –
Whenever a survey, whitepaper or other industry research comes out evaluating
cloud computing, most of the attributes of this trend-setting style of IT
receive a ton of praise.
However, if there is a hesitation on a potential customer’s part about
investing capital into…
eXo Launches Cloud IDE for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
January 26th, 2011 |
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eXo provides Java developers working with Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk with a new Integrated Development Environment (IDE). – To help with the tooling process, eXo, a maker of Java user
experience and portal technologies, has announced the eXo Cloud IDE for
Elastic Beanstalk, the new platform as a service from Amazon Web
Services.
The recently announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk
enables Java developers to easily deploy an…
CommuniGate Systems Launches CommuniGate Pro Version 5.4
January 26th, 2011 |
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The latest version of CommuniGate Pro offers remote mailbox and external mailbox synchronization features. – Unified communications technology specialist CommuniGate Systems announced
the launch of CommuniGate Pro Version 5.4. The Pro hosting platform technology
now includes an array of features designed to enable revenue-generating services
and value-added features such as HD Voice, mVoIP, enhanced gro…
Amazon Launches Bulk E-Mail Service for the Cloud
January 25th, 2011 |
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Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to provide businesses with large-scale bulk e-mail messaging in the cloud. – Amazon Web
Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers,
providing a messaging option for the cloud-computing provider’s arsenal of
Web-based services.
AWS intends
Amazon SES (Amazon Simple Email Service) as an alternative to the thorny work
of building a custo…
Document Foundation Launches Breakaway Open Source LibreOffice 3.3 Suite
January 25th, 2011 |
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The Document Foundation launched its first stable version of the open source LibreOffice suite, after its breakaway from OpenOffice.org and Oracles control. – The Document Foundation launched LibreOffice 3.3 on Jan. 25,
just a mere five days after announcing a release candidate. This is the first
stable release of the open-source office suite since its breakaway from
Oracles OpenOffice.org project in September.
Concerned about Oracles plans for OpenOf…
Iran launches cyber police unit
January 24th, 2011 |
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Iran has launched its first cyber police unit, with more planned in the near future, euronews reports. Its main role will be to patrol the web to prevent opposition groups contacting each other and organising the kinds of protests seen after the contested 2009 presidential election.
Micro Focus Launches New COBOL Tool
January 21st, 2011 |
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The new Micro Focus Visual COBOL R3 toolset brings COBOL to Java, Windows Azure and more. – Micro Focus has announced a new COBOL
product, Visual COBOL R3, which enables developers to extend COBOL to the
latest platforms without having to rewrite code.
Micro Focus Visual COBOL R3 brings COBOL to a range of deployment platforms. In
addition to Windows, UNIX, Linux and .NET, COBOL app…
EMC Launches 41 SMB Storage Products in Splashy Transatlantic Event
January 20th, 2011 |
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There was a lot of storage product information to present all at once, but EMC was bound and determined to do its first product launch of 2011 in a huge way on Jan. 18. In concurrent New York City and London events, the world’s largest independent storage company took the wraps off 41 new enterprise storage products for all markets. The new items, which become available in the current quarter, include a line of low-end storage servers aimed at SMBs called VNX and VNXe, which eventually will replace the company’s standard Clariion and Celerra products; an upgraded version of the Data Domain backup packages; a new Data Domain archiving array; its first branded Isilon "big data" array; and new software for its Symmetrix VMAX systems. The entry-level VNX and VNXe storage systems feature a starting price of about $10,000, so the traditionally large-enterprise company is making a concerted effort to move downstream in the market. Oh, yes, a splashy event like this wouldn’t be complete with photo opportunities, and there were a couple of nonsensical stunts involved. – …
Facebook for Feature Phones Launches in 9 Countries
January 20th, 2011 |
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Facebook for Feature Phones is a mobile app designed to provide users without smartphones easier access to their social network information. – Facebook Jan. 19 rolled out a new mobile application to
allow people with feature phones to access the social network on the go without
incurring data charges.
Built in conjunction with mobile app specialist
Snaptu, Facebook for Feature Phones aims to approximate
the user experience of smartph…
SolarWinds Launches New Product, Acquires a Company
January 19th, 2011 |
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The Texas-based IT management software company releases a new application performance monitor and buys neighboring Hyper9, which makes virtualization management tools. – IT management software maker SolarWinds had a big day Jan. 19, coming out
with a spiffy new data center product and acquiring a company that will help it
move into new markets.
SolarWinds launched its new Orion Application
Performance Monitor, which offers visibility into the data center and p…
BroadVision Launches Clearvale Enterprise for Corporate Communications
January 19th, 2011 |
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The platform manages the life cycle of a corporate communications document from creation to publication. – Social networking and e-business solutions provider BroadVision announced
the release of Clearvale Enterprise for Corporate Communications, a platform
designed to streamline the process of creating, managing and publicizing
corporate marketing materials across private and public networks.
The f…
W3C Launches HTML5 Logo Program
January 18th, 2011 |
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The World Wide Web Consortiums (W3C) new logo aims to promote the use of HTML5 amongst web developers. – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a new logo for HTML5, the fast emerging Web standard for Web developers.
On Jan. 18, the W3C introduced its new logo program for HTML5
to promote the technology and to encourage developers to use it.
Despite concern by the W3C itself in recent mont…
Airtel launches value-added SMS services in Bangladesh
January 14th, 2011 |
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Mobile solution provider Comviva has entered into a strategic partnership with Airtel Bangladesh to provide value-added short messaging services to cellphone users in the country. The agreement will enable Airtel, an arm of the Indian telecom major Bharti Telecom, with a single-window web-based system to access, create, execute and manage value-added services. The new services [...]
Alacritech Launches New NAS Accelerator Appliance
January 14th, 2011 |
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The ANX 1500 appliance moves data faster in network storage systems without needing modifications to filers. And it just plugs right in. – With data stores continuing to get out of hand in terms of management
control, the ability to move loads quickly and efficiently within system and
time limitations is paramount for data centers.
A growing number of companies are coming out with products specifically for
that purpose. A promine…