With the market saying 'no' to Nokia's Ovi Store, what do you think can be done to change this?Somebody at Cisco has unplugged their current reality and given the company a personality transplant (for the positive). Have you seen their latest offering? I’d be buying a lot more Cisco equipment if it made me look like the protagonists featuring in The Realm.
The Cisco Security team has — and I quote — “come to life in The Realm to keep the digital world safe!”
Heh. If you’re into comics, you should like this…
Mobile ad company has announced its landed new investment from the likes of Motorola and Cisco, along with more cash from previous investments Telefonica, Vodafone, Accel Partners, Globespan, and Sequoia Capital. No official word on how much the round is, but it’s thought to be in the region of $22 million.
The company, which sells telco-grade ad serving, already has operators including Vodafone, Telefonica and Orange on its books as well as heavyweight customers like Coca Cola signed up. Getting Cisco and Moto on involved will doubtless give Amobee a boost with their collective handset and software experience, not to mention the cash.
According to PC World, today will see Motorola join a list of investors which includes Cisco, Intel, Cisco and Texas Instruments by funding mobile virtualisation company VirtualLogix.
VirtualLogix lets a user can access two separate operating systems on the same handset - allowing them to share some resources like memory, but also keeping other areas, such as applications, securely apart. VirtualLogix says virtualisation will make the inclusion of Linux on lower and mid-tier handsets easier by by allowing a handset to run the Linux operating system “together with the existing mobile phone stack simultaneously on a single processor core, without requiring a separate applications processor”.
Virtualisation is hotter than hot for enterprise PCs right now, and if Motorola’s bet is anything to go by, mobiles are going to be next frontier. After all, Motorola has a foot in practically all OS camps - Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian and its own proprietary stack - is this investment a sign it’s thinking of combining them? Or just a way of getting more Linux handsets into the market?
