Huawei Hopes To Ship One Million Cloud-based Vision Handsets This Year Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , the world’s No.2 network equipment maker, aims to ship a million of its newly-launched cloud-based “Vision” smartphone handsets this year, a senior executive said on Wednesday. Victor Xu, chief strategy and marketing officer, told reporters on the sidelines of the smartphone launch that it also hoped to maintain shipment growth momentum in the second half for its consumer devices unit. Global shipments by Huawei Device, the division that makes cellphones, tablet PCs and wireless cards, increased by nearly 40 percent to 72 million units
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Nuance Cloud Bridges Content Gap between Paper and Digital Documents A new cloud-based service from Nuance enables users to easily organize, access and share documents from nearly any PC and mobile device. Known as PaperPort Anywhere, the new offering allows users to manage and access their documents in the cloud using web browsers. In addition, it enables using free apps from Nuance for Apple and Google Android mobile devices. What makes the solution work effectively is the Nuance OmniPage OCR (optical character recognition) engine that has been designed to automatically create searchable documents from scanned and camera-captured documents, as well
Hybrid Cloud a Viable IT Service Delivery Platform Hybrid cloud is a viable IT service delivery platform, according to Loughborough University. The University collaborated with Logicalis UK to move a complete enterprise application stack back and forth between an on-campus private cloud and Logicalis’ hosted cloud, via JANET (Joint Academic Network). The cloud solutions are based on Cisco’s unique Unified Computing System (UCS), NetApp Storage platforms, and CA Technologies’ automation and orchestration tools. Loughborough notes that this alliance has also demonstrated the true capabilities of cloud as far more than just a hypervisor workload enabler. For this project, Loughborough leveraged
Fifth Annual Amazon Web Services “Start-Up Challenge” Begins Today for Start-Ups Worldwide Fifteen regional prizes and one global grand prize to be awarded to start-ups with the most innovative businesses built in the AWS cloud SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, Aug 01, 2011 – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the call for entries to the fifth annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest to recognize innovative start-ups that are built on AWS’s cloud computing platform. AWS has expanded the Start-Up Challenge worldwide and will choose a total of 15 regional semi-finalists from the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East
The Hottest New Cloud Computing Startup: Nebula Startups in cloud computing attracting a lot of attention, both from the tech media and the investment community, are nothing new. While I have covered two such companies in earlier articles (See: Venture Capitalists Flock To Cloud Computing Startup and What Bromium’s Funding Means for Cloud Security), this site has carried several articles on such emerging companies in cloud computing ( Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars To Watch – Complete List and Archives: Startups). What makes Nebula different from the flock is its impeccable pedigree. Consider the man behind the company
CSC and Aria Systems Accelerate Cloud Subscription Billing CSC and Aria Systems have signed a global agreement to collaborate on cloud subscription billing and recurring revenue management. CSC, a global provider of technology-enabled business solutions and services, has adopted the Aria Systems platform as the foundation of a cloud-based digital monetization service. As per the agreement between the two companies, this service will be offered initially in the U.S. and Europe. This alliance is expected to benefit both large and small organizations who want to efficiently sell their goods and services over the Internet. Both companies are also collaborating on
5 Excellent Cloud Development Communities to Discover New Talent Compiled is a list of 5 recommended cloud developer communities to find new talent, collaborate or to simply research and discover new API’s to help grow your business. These are in no particular order of preference. GitHub GitHub has grown into an application used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories, (909,512 people hosting over 2,503,922) git repositories making GitHub the largest code host in the world. CloudMade CloudMade enables you to build dramatically different Location Enabled Applications and Services. CloudMade provides application developers with a
