Online language-learning site Babbel has added voice recognition, giving users a real-time feedback system. As part of the lessons, users are encouraged to speak to the web-based Babbel site, where their pronunciation can be...»

The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and increasing the operational budgets and killing budgets required to change...»

Tomorrow I'll be at the GigaOm Structure 10 cloud event and I'll see Tom Roloff who will be speaking there.  Tom is a great guy but very much on top of one of the biggest trends - IT...»

Primal is adding a few things to its semantic search tools today at the Semantic Tech Conference, including the launch of Primal Pages and the availability of its public API. The two new...»

Big news today is that Apple announced that they have sold over 3 million iPads in only 80 days after its introduction in the US. Even more impressive is that Apple just this month started

Posterous is moving towards blogging domination. Over the next 15 days, the simple blogging solution will enable free import options for a number of services, starting with Ning. TechCrunch surmises that...»

If you’ve been following the Microsoft rumors in the gadget blogs (and let’s face it, most of you don’t do that), you already suspected that the Microsoft Kinect (formerly known as Project Natal) was going to cost

I just got back from my trip last week to the Boston and surrounding areas. Of course the Celtics Lakers were the big story, but I found myself contrasting the two regions from a tech angle and...»

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that tech firms have become a chief driver for office space in San Francisco.

Tech firms making S.F. new home

Many of the tenants are

In an interview with Inside Facebook today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reflected on the past couple of years and how the social network's platform has grown. Interviewer Justin Smith dug in for some...»