"Mobile social network Loopt goes live on three AT&T phones today, which was the last major carrier holdout. Loopt is now available in the U.S. on Sprint, Verizon, Metro PCS, T-Mobile and Boost." read more » DiscussBury
"Transplace finds that virtualizing its data centers enhances storage utilization and improves its disaster recovery capabilities." read more » DiscussBury
HELSINKI, Oct 10 - Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia's N-Gage phones or Apple's iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.
The mobile gaming market suffered an unexpected slump last year, with many game developers and analysts pointing to telecom operators' lack of investment in marketing. read more » DiscussBury
"According to the university (Carnegie-Mellon), the Perspectives software not only protects Firefox users against attacks that might occur because of the recently disclosed software flaw in the DNS, but it also defends against some digital-certificate problems that crop up in everyday use." writes Ellen Messmer. read more » DiscussBury
Phil Wainewright discusses SaaS CRM vendor Entellium's decision to abandon the web/browser based method of application delivery for a more traditional application. Still utilizing a SaaS model. Fascinating reading! read more » DiscussBury
Tim Conneally reports on Comcast's decision to upgrade its basic customers from 384kbps and 768kbps to 1mbps and 2mbps. Conneally also notes that while this is a "theoretical" boost because of pipe congestion it may result in little practical speed improvement. read more » DiscussBury