The weekend saw many of developers gathered together for the second Cleanweb Hackathon in New York City. Programmer builds different mobile and web apps spreading new ways to manage the world’s resource problems – water, energy, fuel and food. The event demonstrates the impact of applying information technology to resource constraints with the goal to build apps...
The Linux Foundation, in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group, recently conducted an invitation-only survey of 1893 enterprise Linux users. The survey pool was comprised of The Linux Foundation End User Council, as well as other companies, organizations and government agencies selected by The Linux Foundation and Yeoman, revealed Linux was gaining popularity...
Research in Motion on Sunday announced that Thorsten Heins as company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mike Lazaridis, former Co-Chair and Co-CEO, has become Vice Chair of RIM’s Board and Chair of the Board’s new Innovation Committee. The Globe has reported that the company finally buckled to a year of pressure to replace Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the two men who were the face of the company for decades, and who ran the company in a co-CEO system that investors had long ago declared untenable. On the transition...
PayPal, an American-based global e-commerce business, announced that the company is partnering with the home depot Ebay Inc., results into bring PayPal payments and state-of-the-art mobile purchasing to a sample of their retail stores. As a part of their initial roll-out, purchasers in select Home depot stores can pay with PayPal through cashiers or at self-checkout...
The anti-SOPA protest takes it next moves this morning (EST) with Senator Harry Reid said, “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA).” The voting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24. Yesterday, we saw an increase in number of senators who are in opposition of the bills. The number was raised to 122 against the 63...
Apple is missing out its Chinese New Year sales as the company stopped selling all handsets at its five China outlets on January 13. Stop in the sales will result in giving the competitors a potential boost after pulling its all iPhone from company stores during the nation’s most important gift giving season. The customers on January 13 pelted the flagship store...
Microsoft today with the announcement of its Q2 2012 earnings report confirmed that the company has sold over 525 million licenses of Windows 7 since it hits the market in October 2009. The company previously announced in September last year, at its BUILD conference, that it was on its way to approach 450 million Windows 7 units. With the today announcement it appears that the company made additional 75 million sales in quite a less time. ...
An innovation that helps create a new market and even value network is termed as disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation is used in business and technology literature often to describe innovations that improve a product or services in ways that the market does not expect either, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and...
IBM announced its fourth-quarter 2011 results with diluted earnings of $4.62 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $4.18 per share in the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of 11 percent. Operating (non-GAAP) diluted earnings were $4.71 per share, compared with operating diluted earnings of $4.25 per share in the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of 11...
PC gamers from now on need not to worry as Intel wants to give overclockers some peace of mind with its new Performance Tuning Plan. The Performance Tuning Protection Plan being offered by Intel is a chance for you to experiment with the overclocking features of your processor without the worries of what will happen if you push the processor too far. The Plan allows...
