Bummer: Google Wave To Disappear Forever This Coming Spring
Google will start shuttering Google Wave at the end of January and turn it off completely April 30. We often write in this blog about young tech companies and their innovation. But it is…
Canonical Drops CouchDB from Ubuntu One, Couchbase Denies Interest (Updated)
By Klint Finley
Monday Canonical announced that it will no longer use Apache CouchDB to power the structured data synchronization aspect of its Ubuntu One cloud storage service. Canonical’s John Rowland Lenton wrote: For the last three…
VMware Reverses Open Mac Virtualization Policy
Users of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard got all worked about the latest release of VMware’s Fusion desktop virtualization app, at least for a short time. Version 4.1 provided what seemed to…
Welcome to the Coffee Shop – The Country Club Is Closed
I am thinking about going to a coffee shop this afternoon. I work at coffee shops quite a bit. I can go there and get my work done just as easily as in my…
As Ubuntu Declines, Can Desktop Linux Stay Relevant in the Era of Cloud and Mobile?
By Klint Finley
Ubuntu has fallen to fourth place on its Linux distribution popularity index and Linux Mint has surged to the top. The top five most popular distributions for the past month are: Mint Fedora OpenSUSE…
EMC Balances Out M&A and R&D
Storage vendor EMC has a very rounded-out strategy that combines a lot of acquisitions, which represent perhaps the bulk of the company’s investments, and in house development. Joe Tucci confirmed this during a keynote…
Helpful Apps For Your Black Friday Shopping Spree
Are you ready for the Black Friday chaos? Whether you’ll be braving the shops on Friday or will be staying at home and just doing some online shopping, I’m sure that you’ll need some…
Nokia Faces Layoffs as Microsoft Deal Strengthens
By Isha Suri
Nokia’s gone through some major changes in the past year, and some of those changes are catching up with the troubled phone maker. They announced their plan to cut around 23 percent of its total…
Department of Homeland Security Slams Reports of Cyber Sabotage at Illinois Water Pump
By Kyt Dotson
The Department of Homeland Security has revved up their engines to run circles around widespread media reports that hackers had taken control of a water pumping station in Springfield, Illinois. The report of the…
Windows 8 Will Be Easy to Install, Upgrade
Windows users are either using Windows XP, Vista or 7. Windows XP is a decade old while Vista is about four years old–dinosaurs in the tech world especially, with the availability of Windows 7.…