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Google is announcing new over the air updates to Google Nexus One phones (aka gPhone). Engadget is reporting that Google is also providing multitouch capability – a much sought after feature of the iPhone and now tablets – iPad. I’ve blogged about …
Dan Rosensweig Takes CEO at Chegg or IPO Bound Chegg That Is
Dan Rosensweig, the former COO of Yahoo and recently the CEO and president of the Guitar Hero division of Activision Blizzard, is taking the CEO job at Chegg as reported by Kara (Ms. Exclusive) Swisher at AllThingsD.com. What Does This Mean? – …
Entrepreneurs Vote on Best VCs – Powered By TheFunded.com
Saw this list at PEHub.com – worthy of publishing. TheFunded.com put out a list of the top 50 most popular venture capitalists. It’s a good benchmark of which VCs are in the flow of deals and activity. In essence it’s the top …
Cloud Startup Makara Hopes To Make Deploying Apps Easy and Fast
One of the biggest issues for developers is moving their apps to the cloud. Many companies like RackSpace (@rackcloud) and Amazon are trying to figure out ways to on-board developers to the cloud. Today, Makara, a cloud startup, is coming out of …
Upclose Video of Steve Jobs – Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg Video
In this great on the ground video you can get some candid clips of Steve being Steve. After you get over the Kara and Walt fawning over themselves there is a great section on Steve and nice wrap up in the end. …
Top 5 Reasons Why the Apple iPad Will Succeed BIG
Myself and a few of our members/contributors were talking about the success probability of the iPad. We think that it will be big. For 5 key reason (with a few bonus reasons) The Apple Tablet iPad will succeed mainly for the following …
Apple iPad Announcement – Apple iPad #iPad #Apple #SteveJobs
Apple releases information on iPad. The facts about the Apple iPad and Apple’s official release. After listening to Steve Jobs this morning (post is here), it is clear that their vision of technology meeting liberal arts is some of the most relevant …
Breaking: Apple Tablet IPad – Apple is Biggest Mobile Device Company
It’s official! The Apple Tablet is here – It’s called the iPad. Apple Computer has launched their biggest new product since the iPhone and it’s the Apple Tablet according to all kinds of media hype. They sold our 250 millionth iPod Last …
Did Sun Founders Failed In The End? – Scott McNealy’s Final Memo
Update: I’ve been getting tons of emails privately from SUN fans, employees, and ex employees. SUN deserves the credit for many great things. I’m critical because I admired SUN for the brilliance and contribution. They had their miss steps that cause the …
Cisco The Apple of Networking? NOT – The Polycom Juniper Partnership Implications
Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal broke a story that Polycom was teaming up with Juniper Networks to deliver a different approach to video conferencing (aka teleprence) as compared with Cisco’s highly touted and proprietary high end video conferencing solution dubbed …