Mozilla at the Crossroads
By Jeff Nolan
Mozilla at the Crossroads from Venture Chronicles by Jeff Mozilla CEO John Lilly is stepping down from that role and leaving the nonprofit, a successor has not been announced. The only reason I am…
By Jeff Nolan
Talking Culture at EMC World with Joe Tucci and Jack Mollen
Joe Tucci and John Furrier talk about the evolution of EMC "(courtesy, Len Devanna) If you’re listening to the buzz (over 3500 EMC World Tweets so far), then you know there’s no shortage of…
EMC is Your Sherpa on the Journey to Converged Networks
I’ve spoken often on this blog about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as a great option for Converged Network technology. There have been a lot of discussions on the technical maturation of standards and…
RWW Mobile Summit
By Jeff Nolan
I went to the RWW Mobile Summit last Friday where in the true unconference style the attendees defined the agenda and developed the conference content at the day transpired. While moderate in size, it…
VPLEX: Redefining the Boundaries of the Data Center
In March, Pat Gelsinger introduced EMC’s vision for Virtual Storage (my blog post is here). Today, EMC announced the VPLEX family of products—the first new products that deliver on the vision. VPLEX is a…
One Open Source Database of Geo-Located Places: Will Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook share info?
By Mary Wallace
Foursquare just had its 40 millionth ‘sign in’. Many of your phone apps now ask you if you’d like to geo-locate. Facebook is coming out with a location based update capability. What’s happening to…
UTOPIA, Perfection or Fantasy: Partnering public-private sectors with broadband
By Len Grace
Utopia: the definition brings about visions of an “ideal place or state”, or “a system of political and social perfection.” Thus became the name chosen for a consortium of sixteen Utah cities building their…
Bing and Near Network Crowdsourcing
By Jeff Nolan
Bing added a new social function to their search which is pretty interesting. You’ve had sharing for certain results like news and entertainment for a few months and now we bring you this sharing…
The Jury is Still Out on the iPad
By Art Fewell
There have been a lot of new disruptive technologies that have seemingly come out of nowhere and revolutionized entire industries. These types of disruptive products often catch people by surprise, and so people often…
Betty White’s snappy SNL monologue: Thanks Facebook
By Mary Wallace
In a very witty monologue, Betty White thanked her fans who created a Facebook Fan Page to get her on Saturday Night Live. Betty opened her monolgue with: “I really have to thank Facebook……