Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.

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5 Reasons Why the Google-Motorola Deal Has Big Business Written All Over It

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

One thing stands out in the posts I’ve read so far about Google buying Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion purchase has big business written all over it. Google is making a huge play for the enterprise and sees Android as the way …

Radoop – It’s Like Yahoo Pipes for Hadoop

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The idea of Hadoop always sounds so cool. Distributed computing, big data – it’s like this imaginary sweets shop with candy canes floating amid puffy clouds. Not really. But the dream of Hadoop is far more talked about than the reality of …

A Fragmented Mobile OS Market Means More Bets on HTML 5

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

We are seeing developers make more bets on HTML 5. It’s in large part due to the features that can be built into apps with the programming language. But it is also about addressing a fragmented mobile OS market. Box is one …

Elevation Partners Roger McNamee 10 Hypotheses For Tech Investing

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

We got our hands on a presentation from Elevation Partners that we just had to share. The presentation by Elevation Co-Founder Roger McNamee goes through ten hypotheses for technology investing. I looked around a bit and it does appear that McNamee has …

The @RiotCleanup Story: 2 Days, 86,000 Followers and 84,000 Mentions

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The story about the @RiotCleanup Twitter account is one of the few shines of light coming out of the terrible riots in the United Kingdom. I started tracking the account today. It has increased from about 30,000 followers this morning to about …

Big Data and the London Riots – How an NPR Journalist Created a Telling Interactive Map

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I’ve been searching around today for what the data is saying about the London Riots. My sources: Twitter, Google and The Guardian DataBlog. The Guardian blog used open data for its riot coverage. Its sources include The Metropolitam Police, the London Fire …

Lead Up to VMworld: Let’s Get Some Perspective, Here

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The first few major user conferences I attended gave me agita. I could cover the news well enough but it felt like there was this huge under swell that you could feel. It came down to the myriad of products, services, partners, …

The Real-Time Equivalent for Agile – A Tweetdeck of a Different Scope

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

What is the real-time equivalent for Agile – what would that look like? A different interface than Tweetedeck but the concept is the same. A service on top that gives a view of different applications that are available real-time via a REST …

Why Did Apple and Facebook Go With Fusion-io? It’s All About the Data

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Fusion-io released its fourth quarter results yesterday and announced the acquisition of IO Turbine, a move that shows the never ending demand for better data performance. Here’s the problem. As Fusion-io sees it, virtualization is not seeing its potential. There’s a bottleneck. …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

5 Reasons Why the Google-Motorola Deal Has Big Business Written All Over It

Radoop – It’s Like Yahoo Pipes for Hadoop

A Fragmented Mobile OS Market Means More Bets on HTML 5

Elevation Partners Roger McNamee 10 Hypotheses For Tech Investing

The @RiotCleanup Story: 2 Days, 86,000 Followers and 84,000 Mentions

Big Data and the London Riots – How an NPR Journalist Created a Telling Interactive Map

Lead Up to VMworld: Let’s Get Some Perspective, Here

The Real-Time Equivalent for Agile – A Tweetdeck of a Different Scope

Why Did Apple and Facebook Go With Fusion-io? It’s All About the Data

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