What Does the Kin Cancellation Mean for the Upcoming Windows Mobile Phone 7?

Jay Livens | July 2nd

This week Microsoft announced that they were discontinuing their Kin product line.  The Kin phones are their new social-oriented devices that were developed by their Danger subsidiary who also designed the Sidekick family for T-Mobile.  (On

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Nokia is Losing Fanboys

Jeff Nolan | July 2nd

In a word Symbian sucks. It’s spectacular in it’s suckiness, so much so that even the most public of fanboys are abandoning them.

I can’t continue to support a manufacturer who puts

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IBM Chooses Firefox, IE Holds Its Own

Kristen Nicole | July 2nd

IBM has selected Firefox as its default browser, making a company-wide change that gives Firefox a needed ego boost. With browser competition heating up, Firefox has been kept on its toes to maintain...»

Thoughts on the Brand Power of Google Me

Morgan Warstler | July 2nd

Everyone Googles themselves.

So, can Google harness that compulsion in order to compete with Facebook on WebID?

Off the bat, they grant each provable user identity (no BigTool4U) the ability to grab the first

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Skype Massive Expansion In Silicon Valley – Plans to Build Out More Innovation

John Furrier | July 2nd

Skype CEO Josh Silverman announces today in a blog post that Skype is coming to Silicon Valley. My town of Palo Alto will be their location of their new Silicon Valley office. According to Skype, the operations...»

Google Me Wouldn’t Be Any More Private than Facebook

Kristen Nicole | July 2nd

Rumors of a new Google product that could blow Facebook out the water are gaining steam, with social media pundits weighing in on Twitter and elsewhere. Adding fuel is Google's own CEO making...»

IT’s Changing – The Times They Are Changing

Secret CTO | July 2nd

I was driving with my kids the other day (4 and 8) and they asked me what time it was.  My response was “At the tone, the time will be 10:30 – ding”.  You can imagine the look...»

After Building Community, Thomson Reuters Ropes in Customers With Open Calais Service

Nate D'Amico | July 2nd

In just over two years after launching its fantastic semantic Open Calais platform, Thomson Reuters is seeing great adoption of the commercial side of the service.  Starting out by exposing Open Calais as a free...»

Ding on Bing! Google Acquires ITA Software for $700M

Kristen Nicole | July 1st

Google has made another preemptive strike with its latest acquisition; ITA Software will soon be part of the Google family.  With a $700 million price tag, ITA remained in exclusive talks with Google,...»

Eucalyptus Announces New $20 Million Round

Nate D'Amico | July 1st

Commercial Open Source Infrastructure-as-a-Service startup Eucalyptus is back in the news again with the announcement of a new $20 million round of financing.  The new round is led by NEA, as well as Benchmark and BV Capital participating...»