February 8th, 2012

Akamai Acquires Website Performance Company Blaze Software

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After scooping up rival Cotendo for $268 million recently, content delivery and web services giant Akamai is making another acquisition today—Blaze Software. Blaze’s technology helps accelerate speed of Websites, and optimizes load times while cutting bandwidth costs. Financial details of the dealn were not disclosed except that it was an all-cash transaction.

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June 25th, 2010

Texas Instruments' Blaze tablet is for developers only

Well look at that: Texas Instruments has itself a tablet PC. It’s called the Blaze, it’ll be available this August, and it looks to be fairly well-equipped. A 10.4-inch screen (1024×768 resolution), built-in cellular modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and, for whatever reason, FM radio. Tablet PCs: the savior of the radio industry~! → Read More