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PiCloud Reaches $1.4m in First-Round Investment Funding
Python programming language library producer PiCloud would like to introduce coders to the joys of running in the cloud. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup just raised $1.4 million in their first round of investments and is still seeking more. Their system is a library, imported into Python code, that allows easy connectivity to the cloud, along ...
Kinect Camera Feeds Already Cracked, Hacker Not Interested in the Bounty
Like most hackers, Alex P knew a challenge when he saw one and couldn’t resist. He spent this last weekend playing around with Microsoft’s brand new Xbox Kinect camera and has successfully gotten it to work on a Windows 7 machine. This could be good news for MAKERs and DIYers everywhere—although it could raise Microsoft’s ...
Clearwire in the Midst of Layoffs Due to Financial Drain
Wireless Internet service provider Clearwire has gone into crisis mode recently with significant losses in revenue from a lack of financing and constantly extending costs. To stave off financial doom, the company is cutting its workforce by almost 630 people (15% of 4,200 employees). They’re hoping to stay afloat while they work out a better ...
Android’s Past the Terrible Twos, Still Suckling HTML 5 for Google Instant
The Google Android OS has turned 3 today. Happy birthday Google Android—we hope to see more of you as you grow into HTML5 along with the rest of the industry. Google hopes so too, as HTML 5 has become an important part of Google’s mobile search efforts. An update to Google Instant on Android, along ...
Facebook Obtains Patent on Ad Targeting Technology
Recently Facebook went down to the US Patent Office and got themselves a patent on a social marketing concept that allows advertisement delivery to guess at relevance by comparing social connections. Jackie Cohen over at All Facebook brings us up to speed on the patent by quoting Fenwick & West LLC, Facebook’s intellectual property attorneys ...
Storage Networking Predictions 2011: Ethernet vs Fibre Channel
The analysis is on, looking back at 2009 and 2010 for what protocols and physical layer networking may be trending into next year. The folks over at Wikibon have set their gears turning on where storage networking will go and came out with a few predictions for us to chew on. It looks like the ...
Rocket Ninja Plans 3D Gaming on Facebook
The social game developer, Rocket Ninja, has been working furiously on raking in the investments for their newest venture: bringing 3D games to the highly social market of Facebook. Already they have pulled in $3.5 million in their first round. The new engine, which is described as “streaming 3D” will use a lightweight Flash component ...
Google’s Laboratory Cooks Up Nitro for the Web, New Tools for Apache
Google has brought themselves to the forefront of web technology through sheer weight of contribution by being part of the search revolution, but also through their continual development for the open source community. This month they’re working not only on the browser market to get web pages to flow faster to viewers, but on the ...
Android Market Still AWOL for Motorola Droid X Users
In the misty distance of recent history—September to be exact—some owners of Motorola Droid X awoke to discover that the recent upgrade to their phone had also dropped the Android Market from their handsets. This bug left those affected unable to access anything related to the market—putting them in a predicament because it’s the only ...
Logitech Rescues Unused DVD Players with Universal Remotes
This should probably come as a surprise to no one, but Logitech recently commissioned a study that shows many people are becoming increasingly frustrated with remote controls. The survey and press release are a bid to help advertise their new line of Harmony remote controls, marketed to these irritated masses. In fact, one element of ...