Five new year’s resolutions for Enterprise IT
This sponsored post is produced by Chris Cook, New Relic President and COO.
New Relic had an amazing year in 2011 and we spent a lot of it at industry events talking to senior enterprise IT architects and Operations teams. We heard loud and clear that these teams are pursuing ‘agile’ initiatives — they want to be faster, more productive and want to keep pace with their development team counterparts. And when it comes to … Continue Reading
Why women abandon the C suite — and how to get them back
Although women have made much progress in reaching the leadership levels of business, such progress is disappointing and stalled.
Why is this such a stubborn issue? Why aren’t more women making it to (and staying at) the top?
The answer may lie in a deeper understanding of why women leave and of what they bring to the table.
Women now represent about half of the hiring pipeline, entry-level positions and total workforce. But at each … Continue Reading
Phishing e-mail targets new Apple customers, steals billing information
Just got a new Macbook, iPad or other Apple gizmo for Christmas? A new e-mail scam is targeting you.
Cyber criminals are sending around a very official looking e-mail asking Apple users to update billing information, according to Intego, an anti-virus software company focused on Macs. The company says that the phishing scam, or scam that parades itself as a legitimate source and then steals information, targets new Apple users who are just setting up … Continue Reading
Apple may be preparing 32 & 37-inch iTVs for a summer launch
Apple is allegedly assembling components for a 32- and 37-inch iTV, the Apple branded television set that can connect to the internet for streaming media.
The news comes from Taiwanese blog Digitimes, which has previously picked up accurate news from sources in Apple’s supply chain. The report indicates that Apple is planning to begin assembling the components in the first quarter of 2012 and will launch the iTV product itself in the summer. As for … Continue Reading
Watch out Qualcomm, DoCoMo taps Samsung, Fujitsu, others for LTE chip venture
Qualcomm’s mobile chipset dominance may be threatened by a new joint venture spearheaded by Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, focusing on next-generation LTE products.
DoCoMo is investing $5.8 million in a wholly owned subsidiary, dubbed Communication Platform Planning Co. (creative, no?), which will be run together with Samsung, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC, and Panasonic.
The fabless company (it won’t have any chip factories of its own) will create “feature-rich, small-size, low-power-consumption semiconductor products equipped with modem functionality,” … Continue Reading
The top gaming technologies of 2011
Each year brings a host of new technologies to the table that make the gaming landscape seem significantly different from what came before, and 2011 was no different. Here are some of the most important technological advancements the game industry saw in the past 12 months.
Nintendo 3DS
After Nintendo’s press conference just before E3 2010, it seemed all anybody in the game industry could talk about was the “wow factor” of Nintendo’s newest portable … Continue Reading
Orbitz, Kayak think Google is abusing its power with travel search
Peak holiday travel may be near its end, but the battle for online travel search is just heating up, with Google’s recently launched flight search tools angering competitors.
Google debuted its flight search tool in September and starting placing its own flight search results at the top of regular searches in December, just in time for the holiday travel season. The flight results pop up when you type a query about trying to get from … Continue Reading
Acer not pulling the reins on tablet development, according to founder
Computer hardware manufacturer Acer will not be letting go of its tablet division, the company’s founder Stan Shih confirmed today, after rumors circulated that the company just couldn’t keep up in the mobile world.
Companies from all walks of digital technology, such as HP, which makes PCs like Acer, e-commerce giant Amazon, smartphone manufacturer Research in Motion, e-reader company Kobo, bookseller Barnes & Noble, and more have turned to making tablets. But, like many ventures … Continue Reading
Samsung reconsiders Android 4.0 on Galaxy S, expects 15% rise in handset sales in 2012
It looks like owners of Samsung’s first Galaxy S devices didn’t take too kindly to the news that Android 4.0 won’t be made available as an upgrade.
Thanks to the massive outcry from customers, Samsung is now apparently reconsidering making Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich available to the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab, reports Korea’s ajnews. As the Verge explains it (the original report is in Korean), Samsung is looking into ways to fit Android … Continue Reading
Bump CEO on idea “borrowing,” popularity & the Chicago scene (video)
Bump CEO Dave Lieb took some time to chat with us in the VentureBeat studio recently, and we talked all kinds of trash.
Bump is the mobile app that lets you send data back and forth between two phones simply by physically “bumping” the devices against one another. A common use case is sharing contact information, but all kinds of files can be transferred this way.
First, we noted that Bump’s core value proposition has … Continue Reading
Italy fines Apple $1.2M over warranty confusion
Italian regulators have slapped Apple with $1.2 million (€900,000) in fines for misleading customers about assistance services and guarantees for products.
The fines came from Italy’s anti-trust authority, which said Apple gave unclear information on payments necessary to maintain customer service (a €400,000 fine) and was unclear about its Apple Care extended warranty (a €500,000 fine), according to an AFP report.
Local laws in Italy require companies to offer a two-year warranty on every product … Continue Reading
Samsung & Sony split up their LCD joint venture with a $934M buyout
Samsung and Sony are splitting up their LCD panel joint venture, the companies announced.
Samsung will be buying all of Sony’s shares of the venture, S-LCD Corporation, for KRW 1.08 trillion, roughly $934 million.
Pending regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close by the end of next month, January 2012. As a result of the deal, Sony expects to record Q3 2012 losses of roughly $847 million, but it expects this one-time loss to … Continue Reading
Boxee abandons PC users, version 1.5 update will be the last for computers
Sorry, Boxee faithful, you won’t be getting any more updates on your computers after the release of Boxee 1.5.
The media streaming software company will be shifting its focus entirely to connected TV devices, tablets and smartphones, it announced yesterday on its blog, together with the unveiling of Boxee 1.5 for Windows, Macs, and Ubuntu Linux.
The news reflects a major shift in the landscape of home theater PCs. It used to be that you … Continue Reading
5.5 million hours spent in Star Wars: The Old Republic over Christmas weekend
Electronic Arts is touting the latest numbers for Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it seemed that lightsaber hums competed hard with the sound of jingle bells.
Over the last weekend, 5.5 million hours of potential quality family time were sacrificed for the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire instead, according to the publisher. It’s a sign that EA’s major bet on The Old Republic, which has been in development for years in the hopes … Continue Reading
Kindle Fire gets a bite of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Well that didn’t take very long. Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet — which you’ve likely seen gifted quite a bit this holiday season — has been hacked to run a “pre-alpha” version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
You can thank the intrepid hackers over at the xda-developers forum for the release, which marks the first time Android 4.0 has hit the Kindle Fire.
A hack such as this is likely the only way Kindle Fire … Continue Reading
Top 10 hilarious and surprising viral videos of 2011
YouTube may have already picked the biggest videos to hit the web this year, but there’s a host of great videos that didn’t make the cut. From vigilante cyclists to deadpan taxidermists to obligatory cute kittens, the web was full of strange, funny, sad and infuriating events and characters.
We decided to cap off the year with a list of 10 viral videos we especially liked. While you’ve probably seen at least half of these, … Continue Reading
When an entrepreneur fails from lack of nerve
Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching them fail from a lack of nerve is tragic.
Excitement
At the beginning of this year Bob, one of my ex-students was in entrepreneurial heaven. He had an idea for a new class of enterprise software insight-as-a-service based on big data web analytics as a Cloud and SaaS (Software As a Service) application.
Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. After … Continue Reading
Hacker group Anonymous steals sensitive info from Stratfor security firm
Hacker collective Anonymous claims to have stolen credit card data and other sensitive details from U.S. security think tank Stratfor, with plans to donate $1 million in stolen cash to charity.
Austin, Tex.-based Stratfor is a research group that posts a daily newsletter on security issues and counts the Defense Department, Lockheed Martin and Bank of America as clients. But for being a so-called “intelligence company,” the organization did an awful job of protecting its … Continue Reading
How to manage your company’s online reputation (infographic)
Many of us are intimately familiar with the rigmarole of personal online-reputation control, especially as the 2011 holiday party season comes to a close. We know to delete any tipsy tweets and comb through Facebook to un-tag ourselves in embarrassing party photos.
Just like you, your business has a online reputation to worry about, and maintaining it takes work. For all companies, from hip startup to old-school enterprise, paying attention to online feedback is incredibly … Continue Reading
Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
Hosting and domain registrar company Go Daddy has lost more than 37,000 domains in the past two days due to the company’s wishy-washy stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The fleeing domains comes as a result of the intense backlash from customers and Internet critics after Go Daddy appeared on an official list of companies supporting SOPA. The internet responded by staging a wide-spread boycott where people would switch their domains to another registrar, … Continue Reading
