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Insights and Opinions: A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

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For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we share the thoughts and insights of local technology thought leaders, we have an article from Tony Greenberg , CEO of Ramprate on A Cynic's Prediction of IT and Media in 2011. Last year brought us the return of 3D from the 1950s, cloud (a.k.a. Everything that's old will be new again.

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Q2 Venture Funding Drifts Downward In Southern California

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in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. M raised, and cloud computing provider Eucalyptus , with $30.0M The latest MoneyTree Survey, from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters, tabulated. Mobile video sharing app developer.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Today’s Normalization.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. Cloud computing is also very important. Kian Saneii: 2012 is a big year for us.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.”

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. And then, imagine if it worked natively with almost any other popular cloud based application. When was it launched? Platform of the Future.

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Pepcom: Mobile Focus San Diego | HTC, Samsung, X1, Paymentone They Haz It!

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Not to say though that the event was only for the quirky; with just the sheer momentum the mobile market has picked up throughout 2011 (many thanks in part to the heavy artillery arm’s race that Android makers have declared on Apple), I have no doubt that Android devices are going to keep upping the ante with this ongoing horsepower war.