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FriendFeed Founder Bret Taylor Gets a Rest Becomes Facebook CTO – No Direct Reports
According to Techcrunch who received an email from Facebook’s PR team, Bret Taylor has become the CTO of Facebook. Bret Taylor is know for working on Google Maps not Gmail at Google then striking out on his own to launch Friendfeed with Gmail creator Paul Buchheit. Friendfeed a great engineered product that was loved my ...
The One Big Reason Why Apple and Steve Job Dominates + Some Steve Jobs Videos
It’s great to watch the coverage from the #D8 conference put on by Kara Swisher and AllThingsD.com. One big highlight was the presence of Steve Jobs. The one main thing that jumps out at me from all the Steve Jobs interviews is his focus on role of "the product" from Apple. As all the bloggers ...
Confirmed: Millions of Skype iPhone Apps Downloaded in Days – New Skype iPhone App Hitting Over One Million Dowloads A Day
Update: Skype just confirmed over email that they have seen millions of downloads. According to VP of Corporate Communications Brian O’Shaughnessy “millions of downloads of an app that for the FIRST time brings true HD quality to the mobile calling experience”. Brian didn’t confirm the million per day but he did say “millions”. I stand ...
HP Swallows EDS Preparing An Acquisition Run- Eliminating 9k Jobs- Hello Cloud
HP is announcing a massive investment and re-launch of their Enterprise strategy. In the announcement HP will invest $1 billion tin the next generation of its Enterprise Services business. In the announcement they are touting the operational margin benefits and downplaying the elimination of 9,000 jobs. To be fair the elimination of the 9,000 jobs ...
New Mobile Ad Models Coming Fast – GoogMob – Google Finally Punches It Home with AdMob Deal
Google finally got the deal with AdMob done. What a pain in the ass for them. The FTC jumped in their underwear from day one. I was against the FTC involvement from the beginning. No need to go into that just read my posts on the subject here. The big play now for Google is ...
Video: EMC President Has An Angle on Social Media – Short Vid Worth Watching
Pat Gelsinger, President of EMC, sat down with me at SAP Sapphire on SiliconAngle’s The Cube. Here is a highlight where he talks about social media and gives his angle on what it means. Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from SAPphire on Justin.tv
Gartner Results Confuse The Word “Mobile” – Mobile Is Smartphones Not PC Notebook
Gartner just put out a study using the word Mobile which will confuse a few people. The world of mobility is changing and I think that it’s time to hang up the notion that notebooks are mobile. No one wants to lug around a notebook when you have an smartphone. This is what Gartner just ...
Performance Matters In Private Cloud & Stack Wars – Storage Traffic Important Part of Cloud Equation
This morning my friend at Wikibon Project, Dave Vellante, posted an inside baseball analysis on some QLogic news this morning. His post ties directly into a post I was writing this morning on the dynamics of Private Cloud and how storage is sexy. I think the QLogic news Dave dives into is a big datapoint ...
Infographic: Public verses Private Cloud
My friend Dave Vellante at Wikibon Project, a new crowdsourced analyst firm, put together a nice image on the private vs public cloud. Public vs Private Cloud Computing There are as many definitions of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the major theme is that a Public Cloud provides IT resources that are provisioned ...
#1 Independent Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Responds To FTC Google AdMob Approval
As the FTC responded to the Google Admob acquisition which Business Insider deputy editor Dan Frommer calls Pathetic in terms of why they even evaluated this transaction, Paul Palmieri, the CEO of the largest independent mobile advertising network Millennial Media responds with a comment. Paul Palmieri goes on to say: “As one of the very ...