Microsoft Slams Google Data Policy What Makes a Tweet Interesting? Might Facebook IPO Spring a Leak? It's the 'Second-Screen' Super Bowl Mobile, Social, Cloud CRM for Small Biz Apple Names Exec To Head Retail Ops Microsoft slammed Google with full-page newspaper ads, saying recent changes that allow Google to merge the data it collects on user activity are meant to enable advertisers to better target customers. While businesses turn more to Twitter for marketing, researchers have found that users disliked or were disinterested in two-thirds of tweets. They offer insight into which tweets garner interest. Facebook finally filed for its IPO. Now the social-media giant can look ahead to new revenue from "social advertising," or on the other hand its valuation might peak and then deflate. Call it the "second-screen" Super Bowl. Companies from Coke to Chevy are trying to reach fans on all the "second screens" they have, including smartphones and tablets, in an attempt to stand out. A mobile customer service desk for small- to medium-size businesses. That's the idea behind Desk.com, a new cloud-based customer service product offered by Salesforce.com. In its quest to spread its stores around the world, Apple is reaching over the Atlantic to snatch the customer service-focused CEO of a British electronics chain to head its retail operations. FULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORY
Brocade Execs Offer Look Under OpenScript Engine's Hood Can customers predict the future? Brocade is suggesting that as it launches its latest innovations in its Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of cloud-optimized application delivery switches.
Brocade Opens Up Cloud-Optimized App Delivery Switches OpenScript is being launched by Brocade for its ServerIron ADX cloud-optimized app delivery switches, offering an open platform for predicting network impacts before scripts go into production.
Cisco Pushes 100-Gigabit Ethernet Capability into Switch Portfolio Cisco has updated its switch lineup with 100- and 40-gigabit Ethernet capabilities, a key element of its strategy to help customers meet the demands of cloud computing and the "resulting data deluge."
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Mobile Phone Growth Slides In Fourth Quarter Mobile phone shipments on a global basis reached 427.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 -- a tepid 6.1 percent rise from the year-earlier period, IDC says, blaming it on a weak economy.
Smartphones Overtake Computers and Tablets Move over, computers and tablets. For the first time, annual worldwide shipments of smartphones are larger than PCs and tablets. Smartphone shipments rose 63 percent last year, to 487.7 million units.
Review: Super Bowl Online Decent, Won't Replace TV The TV won't be the only place to watch video of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday. For the first time, fans will be able to watch the Super Bowl live on a computer or phone.