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Clash of the Titans: The Cloud Climbing Mount Olympus
The cloud has been changing the very face of computer technology and it’s largely been innovated by the newcomers with the old, faithful behemoths of the industry moving slowly but inexorably in their wake. In an article published at Bloomberg Buisnessweek, “The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans”, Ashlee Vance has taken a principled view ...
Kinect Lands Spot in the Pages of the Guinness Book of World Records
Microsoft’s peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been dubbed the Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device by the Guinness Book of World Records. After their explosively popular debut that left pretty much every other similar peripheral in the dust, this could be considered the jewel in the crown of excellent timing and good product work. I’ve been ...
Fusion-io Preps for IPO; Though Not Quite Ripe, Facebook Already a Data-Center Customer
As big-time innovators in solid-state storage as it combines with distributed storage models, Fusion-io has been pushing the cloud-envelope on multiple fronts. Since their emergence into the scene as a start-up in 2006, they’ve inducted the Woz as their chief scientist and brought Michael Dell from Dell, Inc. on board as an investor in the ...
Stack Overflow Injects $12 Million, Mutates Into Stack Exchange
The extremely popular questions-and-answers site, Stack Overflow, has just announced that they’ve finished a Series B funding round netting $6 million. This comes after an initial round of $6 million during May of last year. Commentary on this round of funding comes from GigaOM, along with an explanation of what users can expect from the ...
Craigconnects: The Power of Crowdsourcing and Social Media Meets Nonprofits
Craig Newmark—better known to the Internet at large as Craig of Craigslist—would like your attention and energy. He’s starting a social-media philanthropy venture to demonstrate and guide his efforts towards buttressing nonprofit organizations that he sees worthy of praise and attention by using his fame and fortune to direct eyeballs and dollars. According to the ...
Adobe Meets Apple Head On with HTML5, Releases Flash Converter
Apple has been at war with Flash for some time now—in fact, it’s persona non grata on iOS devices in lieu of hardware-accelerated, Johnny-come-lately HTML5. As a result, Adobe’s Flash gets left in the dark when it comes to iPod Touch, iPads, and iPhone and the graphics software company cannot have that. Recently, they’ve unveiled ...
Microsoft’s Defense for Nokia Deal Could Hurt Bottom Line
The news is rolling in about a gigantic exchange of money from Microsoft to Nokia as part of the newly minted deal between the two corporations that would spread the Windows Phone 7 operating system far and wide. Two sources with knowledge of the terms approached Bloomberg and let them know that they $1 billion ...
Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million
Adding to their long line of acquisitions, Google has just purchased the UK-based comparison shopping site BeatThatQuote.com. The purchase price has been set at £37.7 million (about $6.1 million.) The site allows consumers rate comparisons amid a multitude of financial products including credit cards, car loans, mortgages, utilities, and insurance. Looking at the way that ...
PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit
We’ve seen the Microsoft Kinect become the center of a mindstorm of innovation involving gesture controls, animation, and numerous other applications in the homebrew hacker sphere—and, of course, the framework for building on top of it’s underlying technology has been released in the OpenNI framework. Respondesign has taken the bull by the horns, used PrimeSense’s ...
Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO
It’s been news for a while that Skype intends to make their initial public offering soon. Until recently, “soon” meant this year, but the company’s newly appointed CEO, Tony Bates, would like to wait a little longer for them to be in better shape. And they look like they’re in pretty good shape with an ...
