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on Ubergizmo:
Leaked Images Of Dropped Nokia Handset
Nokia joins Sony Ericsson and Motorola by canceling a handset of their
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on TechCrunch:
Holiday Online Retail Traffic: Walmart And Amazon Duked It Out
According to Hitwise, U.S. visit numbers across all tracked retail categories declined
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on Read/Write Web:
It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead
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on OhGizmo!:
Droplet CDP3.1 'Mini' CD Player - Looks Expensive, Is Expensive
At first glance the Droplet CD Player looks like it was built
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on /Message:
Edmodo: Educational Microstreaming... And More?
I recently stumbled upon Edmodo, which is a clever and lean microstreaming
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on Searchblog:
Another Yahoo search rumor, as Om puts it - this one
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on Mashable:
The Huffington Post has raised 25 million dollars in funding from Oak
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on CrunchGear:
Renesas to Unveil Full HD Video Processor for Cell Phones
Renesas, the world's biggest manufacturer of microcontrollers, is planning to unveil a
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on Ars Technica:
Nokia Pulls out of Japan as Gadget Demand Nosedives
Earlier this week, Nokia warned of a drop in global demand
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on Alarm: Clock:
iPhone Video App Platform LiveRail Raises Funds
We covered then London-based LiveRail back in July 2007 when it launched.
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Published on GigaOM at 11:50 AM
VCs Back Tools to Look Inside the Cloud
Enterprise software, which has gone from running on the computer to being hosted in a corporate data center, is now moving out to nebulous pools of servers called clouds. As computing clouds become part of the corporate information technology environment, making sure software hosted in the cloud is delivered as quickly and efficiently as possible will become increasingly important.
Whether it's an external cloud such as those offered by Amazon.com or an internal cloud operated by a Wall Street investment bank, connecting the applications running on those pools of compute power to the employees using them is going to be an integral part of a company's wide area network, or WAN. And that has venture firms taking a fresh look at an already mature industry known as WAN optimization.
There's nothing terribly exciting about making sure the pipeline that delivers applications between various corporate branch offices and data centers keeps moving and the software gets delivered as quickly as possible, but it's a multibillion-dollar area of spending for corporations intent on squeezing every bit of efficiency from their broadband connections...
Published on GigaOM at 11:50 AM
