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miercuri, 4 martie 2015
vineri, 20 februarie 2015
HP to Ship Commodity Switches With Cumulus Linux OS
HP has become the latest “legacy” IT vendor to announce it would ship commodity switches for web-scale data centers that support network management software other than its own.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said its differentiation in the competitive commodity switch market would be a global supply chain that extends across more than 160 countries and a smorgasbord of support and consulting services.
Internet giants, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, which operate massive data centers around the world, have found it more effective to design their own hardware and have so-called “Original Design Manufacturers,” the likes of Taiwan’s Quanta and Foxconn, manufacture it for them. The trend has created a problem for incumbent IT vendors, such as HP, Dell, IBM, and Cisco, which found themselves competing with contract manufacturers of their products for the same high-volume deals.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said its differentiation in the competitive commodity switch market would be a global supply chain that extends across more than 160 countries and a smorgasbord of support and consulting services.
Internet giants, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, which operate massive data centers around the world, have found it more effective to design their own hardware and have so-called “Original Design Manufacturers,” the likes of Taiwan’s Quanta and Foxconn, manufacture it for them. The trend has created a problem for incumbent IT vendors, such as HP, Dell, IBM, and Cisco, which found themselves competing with contract manufacturers of their products for the same high-volume deals.
Facebook, through its Open Compute Project, has spread awareness about cost effectiveness of this IT procurement model, and there is now growing interest in low-cost commodity hardware among enterprises who are not necessarily Internet giants, creating a new threat to the incumbents’ market share. Facebook started with servers, but now, it has also designed its own network switch and plans to contribute that design to OCP like it has with its server designs.
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vineri, 30 ianuarie 2015
China’s Great Firewall Gets Taller
A recent upgrade to China’s web filters, commonly referred to as the Great Firewall, has made it more difficult to use services called virtual private networks to circumvent the country’s blocks to U.S. services like Google and Facebook .
Chinese officials confirmed a crackdown on VPNs this week, saying that new measures were needed as the Internet evolved. In the past week, major VPN providers such as Astrill have reported disruptions to their services.
The move is further indication of China’s desire to create a parallel Internet environment that it can more easily control. The web filters serve a dual purpose of screening out content critical of the Chinese government and providing protection for China’s own growing web firms against stronger overseas rivals.
Source:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-great-firewall-gets-taller-1422607143
joi, 29 ianuarie 2015
Facebook revenue, profit beat expectations
For the seventh quarter in a row Facebook beat profit and revenue forecasts, continuing to win more mobile advertising revenue as most users shift to using the site on smartphones and other portable devices.
The world’s biggest online social network said Wednesday that advertising revenue jumped 53 percent to $3.59 billion for the fourth quarter — with mobile ad revenue representing 69 percent of the total. That percentage has grown steadily in each quarter of this year.
Facebook’s huge user base also expanded. It had 1.39 billion monthly active users at the end of the year, up 13 percent from a year earlier. Daily users totaled 890 million, up 18 percent. Mobile monthly active users jumped 26 percent to 1.19 billion.
“The bigger Facebook gets, it cements its position as one of the most dominant players in digital media, and it has the size and reach to change the rules of digital advertising and convince others to play by them,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at research firm eMarketer.
Facebook, which turns 11 years old this year, began offering mobile ads in 2012, the year its stock began publicly trading. More recently, the Menlo Park company expanded into video ads, which are very lucrative, and last year it rereleased Atlas, a tool for marketers to better reach people across devices, platforms and publishers and to measure how well the ads work.
Facebook had a “strong quarter capping off a really great year,” Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said.
She called 2014 the year Facebook completed the shift to mobile, and said the company will continue to make investments to build its business this year. When it comes to Facebook’s ad business, the focus is squarely mobile. Sandberg said that in the U.S., 25 percent of consumers’ time spent on various media is spent on mobile — while only about 10 percent of advertising budgets goes to mobile.
“What that says to me is that we have opportunity for growth,” she said.
Source:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Facebook-revenue-profit-beat-expectations-6046866.php
marți, 27 ianuarie 2015
What! Facebook's down? No storm selfies during brief outage
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — No storm selfies, hookups, status updates. With Facebook and Instagram down for nearly an hour overnight, what were legions of users to do?
Turn to Twitter, of course. To talk about Facebook. The hashtag "#facebookdown" generated a cascade of tweets, including an image of a T-shirt with the words "I survived #facebookdown." Companies such as Coca-Cola took it as a viral marketing opportunity.
Of course companies that depend on Facebook and Instagram to reach their customers, like the dating app Tinder, had to wait. More than 7,500 websites had services affected by the Facebook outage, according to Web tracking firm DynaTrace.
For most, though, it was just a blip. While Facebook certainly has become an important communications tool for some 1.35 billion people worldwide, a temporary shutdown does not have the same crippling effect as the loss of electricity, water, the Internet or a city's public transit system. It's also a lesson, perhaps, in what happens when we rely heavily on a free service that, while very stable, cannot promise 100 percent uptime.
Source:
http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Facebook-suffers-outage-affecting-users-worldwide-6042056.php
Turn to Twitter, of course. To talk about Facebook. The hashtag "#facebookdown" generated a cascade of tweets, including an image of a T-shirt with the words "I survived #facebookdown." Companies such as Coca-Cola took it as a viral marketing opportunity.
Of course companies that depend on Facebook and Instagram to reach their customers, like the dating app Tinder, had to wait. More than 7,500 websites had services affected by the Facebook outage, according to Web tracking firm DynaTrace.
For most, though, it was just a blip. While Facebook certainly has become an important communications tool for some 1.35 billion people worldwide, a temporary shutdown does not have the same crippling effect as the loss of electricity, water, the Internet or a city's public transit system. It's also a lesson, perhaps, in what happens when we rely heavily on a free service that, while very stable, cannot promise 100 percent uptime.
Source:
http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Facebook-suffers-outage-affecting-users-worldwide-6042056.php
luni, 26 ianuarie 2015
FACEBOOK'S LITE APP IS A VERSION OF THE SOCIAL NETWORK AIMED AT EMERGING MARKETS
After conquering developed markets like the U.S. and Europe, the tech world is eager to expand into the developing world in search of new, untapped populations of potential customers. While that all makes perfect sense in theory, in practice it can lead to challenges.
A good case in point is Facebook, which as a "mobile first company" has been looking for some time to capitalize on the rise of smartphones in locations such as India and Africa. The problem? In many emerging markets, users lack the kind of Internet connection needed to use the full version of the social network.
Facebook's answer? A new, lightweight version of its mobile app—especially designed for areas with poor-quality Internet connections.
According to Facebook, this "Facebook Lite" app allows low-cost Android handsets to quickly load Facebook feeds and photos, even when users are on 2G connections. The app was launched in several countries in both Asia and Africa over the weekend—including Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Currently it is being tested, but if successful Facebook will no doubt hope it can continue to grow its social network.
Source:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3041440/fast-feed/facebooks-lite-app-is-a-version-of-the-social-network-aimed-at-emerging-markets
A good case in point is Facebook, which as a "mobile first company" has been looking for some time to capitalize on the rise of smartphones in locations such as India and Africa. The problem? In many emerging markets, users lack the kind of Internet connection needed to use the full version of the social network.
Facebook's answer? A new, lightweight version of its mobile app—especially designed for areas with poor-quality Internet connections.
According to Facebook, this "Facebook Lite" app allows low-cost Android handsets to quickly load Facebook feeds and photos, even when users are on 2G connections. The app was launched in several countries in both Asia and Africa over the weekend—including Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Currently it is being tested, but if successful Facebook will no doubt hope it can continue to grow its social network.
Source:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3041440/fast-feed/facebooks-lite-app-is-a-version-of-the-social-network-aimed-at-emerging-markets
joi, 22 ianuarie 2015
WhatsApp Web launches without iOS support owing to Apple 'limitations'
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Chrome client instead arrives with Android, BlackBerry and Windows support
Chrome client instead arrives with Android, BlackBerry and Windows support
MESSAGING APPLICATION WhatsApp is now available via Google's Chrome browser, unless you're an iPhone user.
The web client will allow users to send and receive messages within the desktop Chrome browser.
But Koum is keen to point out that WhatsApp Web is only an extension of the service's mobile apps, so you'll still need your phone nearby to take advantage of it.
"Today, for the first time, millions of you will have the ability to use WhatsApp on your web browser," he said.
"Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device. This means all of your messages still live on your phone."
However, while iPhone users are typically the first to get their hands on new apps, WhatsApp announced that - for now at least - WhatsApp Web won't be available on iOS, citing "Apple platform limitations".
Instead, WhatsApp Web currently plays nice with Android, BlackBerry, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone.
joi, 15 ianuarie 2015
Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work
Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Facebook at Worktoday, but will businesses actually want to use it?
Enterprise Social as a category has been with us for almost a decade, with companies like Jive,Yammer (now part of Microsoft) and Socialcast (now part of VMware) trying hard to get organizations to embrace social tools — often being sold ironically as “Facebook for the enterprise.”
Facebook is jumping feet-first into this existing market with all of its baggage and trying to show it can make the transition to a business product and all that entails. While the Facebook enterprise product has many advantages, there are also many unanswered questions.
Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/facebook-where-the-enterprise-reacts-to-facebook-at-work/
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