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This week, Google held a free-for-all question and answer session with the press, over lunch, at their Zeitgeist event in Phoenix, AZ. The topics coursed through the entire search industry and especially focused on Google’s current activities and where they expected to …
HP Soon to Decide on a Replacement for Mark Hurd
Mark Hurd, HP’s ex-CEO, left his position in August this year in the midst of accusations of business misconduct after an internal investigation revealed an affair with a marketing contractor. As a result, HP has been in the position of determining a …
Open Facebook Alternative Diaspora Releases Code
Facebook has been in the news repeatedly over the years due to their continual privacy breaches and snafus. While still extremely popular, Facebook still suffers a bit of attrition every time a new social network appears that might cater to the same …
ARM Processors are Coming, The Rise from Phones to Supercomputers
Computer chips built using ARM architecture have long had a place in cell phones and the mobile market due to their small process, low power draw, and cheap cost. Intel, on the other hand, makes the powerful workhorse x86, which dominates personal …
Hires and Lateral Moves at Google: Robert Kyncl and Craig Walker
This week, Google has had quite a bit of rumbling on the people side. While the information giant usually gets noticed by the media for its appetite for acquisitions, they also invest in people. Over at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things …
PayNearMe Changes the Prepaid Model for the Everyday Cash Customer
According to PayNearMe’s own website, over 24% of all households in the United States don’t have credit or debit cards and they intend to exploit this untapped cash-only consumer base. PayNearMe combines a modified cash load network with an application technology platform …
Early Reviews of IE9: It’s Pretty, Very Pretty
Internet Explorer has become the much maligned whipping-child of the Internet browser wars, even if they still hold a majority of the market due to its entanglement with the Windows OS. Their most recent update, IE9, has been turning some heads. Especially …
Like + Bing? Microsoft and Facebook Engaged in Search Talks
All Things Digital has exclusive news that Microsoft is in talks with Facebook about deepening their search entanglement. The deal hinges around Microsoft’s access to data acquired from Facebook’s famous Like button. While the deal is not closed and talks could end …
Hewlett-Packard’s Eyes on ArcSight Brings Lawsuits and Another Bidding War?
Stock market traders are watching Hewlett-Packard right now, wondering if their current involvement in an auction for the cybersecurity company, ArcSight, will result in a lucrative bidding tug-of-war. This expectation comes right on the heels of HP’s acquisition of 3Par, which did …
Hadoop World is Coming: Event Agenda
Cloudera, Inc. is announcing the event agenda for Hadoop World, with some exciting presentations listed, Below is listed only a few of the topics these presentations will cover: MapReduce and parallel database systems, Hadoop image processing for disaster relief, Sentiment analysis, Multi-channel …