Steve Jobs may be known for his brand genius but his secret gems have always rested deep in the hardware of Apple’s simple, wondrous creations. It’s Jobs attention to beauty, elegance and performance that have made him such a leader and reason why his resignation means so much to this tech generation. His stature is ...

The +1 button on Web sites has been hit four billion times, according to a blog post today by Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra. In July, the +1 button crossed 2 billion daily views. In addition, the +1 button is now on more than a million sites. New features are on the way. Gundotra: We’re rolling out ...

Here’s something a bit lighthearted for the end of the week. My question: Who had the smartest tweets these past two days about HP’s shift to the enterprise? Who was the snarkiest? It’s during a week like this that I want the gold nuggets. I mean real, juicy insights that can help me cut through the ...

Amazon Web Services is combining two Amazon EC2 features: Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce that will allow customers to launch and manage Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. According to Jeff Barr on the Amazon Web Services blog, customers will be able to run long-running jobs, cost-driven workloads, data-critical workloads, and application testing at a discount that has historically ranged between 50% and ...

Krishnan Subramanian and I were chatting over Skype yesterday.  Krishnan is a well-known analyst and blogger. He asked a question about a post I wrote this week that looked at ten startups in the flash memory storage market. He wanted to know this: We saw the proliferation of in-memory databases in the last few years. ...

Canonical recently announced Ubuntu support for OpenStack. Now it’s joining Cloud Foundry to provide Ubuntu support for VMware’s open cloud platform and access to millions of desktops. It joins Dell, EnStratus and Opscode, which all are joining Cloud Foundry, one of the fastest growing platforms in the market. The news adds some additional color to ...

I just saw the news on Techmeme that Box is raising another $35 million. I’ll keep this brief. Wow. Combined with its past round that equates to $83 million in venture capital funding. Venture Beat discovered the news in an SEC filing. Aaron Levie, one of the true characters of the Silicon Valley CEO world, ...

In the lead up to VMworld we are looking at some of the top issues we expect to unfold at the event. The following are five discussions we expect to hear about. These are based on the current market and the correlation to VMware’s technology offerings. Licensing Confusion? VMware reported second quarter earnings last month. Demand ...

The news about Windows 8 has been pretty sparse. Windows Chief Steve Sinofsky is known for keeping things quiet about big launches. But it looks like that’s going to change. Sinofsky wrote the first post today in a pre-Windows 8 blog, one month ahead of the Build conference where it plans to launch the beta ...

I was listening to SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier on a call last Friday. He had a first-hand glimpse of the new superstars of the tech world last week at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. These are the people whose startups are bringing much-needed speed and performance to customers in the Web and enterprise ...