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Samsung Electronics think so. The Korean company is here pitching Samsung Apps, an application platform and marketplace, to media and content providers, as well as individual third-party developers. Samsung Apps, as the platform is called, has been rolled out in other countries, but the company came here for its first developer conference, called Free the [...]

Verizon Business is tapping into the popularity of VMware technology with a cloud computing service designed to let customers easily move workloads between their own infrastructure and Verizon’s cloud. With the new service, in trials now and due for general availability early next year, enterprises that use VMware will be able to shift workloads out [...]

Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large “hyperscale” customers, which include big Internet firms like Microsoft and Facebook. The first modular data centers, including one shown by Dell two years ago, used standard shipping containers to house [...]

After setting up a cloud infrastructure, an organization needs tools to monitor that it is running as smoothly as planned. With this in mind, software provider Zenoss has customized its server and networking monitoring application, Zenoss Enterprise, for VMware’s newly released cloud management software, vCloud Director. [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need [...]

I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises carve many virtual links out of the Gigabit Ethernet or 10-Gigabit Ethernet port built into a server. The company is announcing a new, Ethernet-enabled version of its Xsigo I/O Director at VMworld in San Francisco [...]

Udemy.com, a startup intent on making it simple for anyone to teach online, announced Tuesday that it has received a million dollars in funding from “angel investors.” A startup intent on making it simple for anyone to teach online announced Tuesday that it has received a million dollars in funding from “angel investors.” (c) 2010 [...]

Not even the Jedi Mind trick could get LucasFilm to change its opinion on Jedi Mind’s name. The small software developer announced on Tuesday that it has changed its name to Mind Technologies. In a statement, the company said it decided to change its name “to avoid potential infringement of trademarks owned by LucasFilm.” Mind [...]

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday. Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.

Scammers are trying to take advantage of the fact that many users will soon have to update their version of the TweetDeck Twitter software. On Monday, TweetDeck warned that some Twitter messages were advising people to upload an untrustworthy executable file, called tweetdeck-08302010-update.exe. [ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser [...]

Google plans to begin rolling out to Gmail users on Tuesday a new feature designed to automatically rearrange messages in their inbox so that the most important and pressing ones appear at the top. Called Priority Inbox, the feature will be released with the beta, or test, label and is being described for now as [...]