Week In Review – May 7, 2011
Most weeks experience some type of significant event in the markets, some more (or less) significant than others. This week was no different in that respect. While there were no announcements or pronouncements or…
EMC – The Cloud’s Switzerland?
The dominant position of EMC (ticker symbol EMC) in the storage industry is well established. Not willing to rest on its laurels, however, the company has been transitioning for quite some time, both internally…
Report: Massive Drop In Freelance Writing Work Following Google’s Panda Update
By Tom Foremski
Chris O’Brien at Freelancer.com sent me an interesting report that shows a massive drop in freelance writing jobs following Google’s Panda algorithm update in February, which was designed to demote content farms in search…
Growing Support for VMware’s Open Initiative Cloud Foundry
VMware’s Cloud Foundry, the first of open PaaS offerings, is currently in beta but having quite a start. We’ve heard of quite a bit of developments related to the offering in the past few…
Some Sanity Around Those Windows Phone Numbers
The entire notion that only 674,000 Windows Phone 7′s being sold, which in turn seems to have everyone jumping on the #FAIL bandwagon is really beginning to grate on my nerves. As much as…
QLogic Earnings Call Shows Symbiosis Between FCoE and Silicon Products
By Kyt Dotson
Networking and storage technology solutions provider QLogic made their earnings call recently (transcript posted on Seeking Alpha) in the rough seas of the cloud and they’re still looking very good. The company has been…
Intel’s Tiny Transistor With “Fins” Is A Potential ARM Killer, Tablet Winner
By Tom Foremski
Intel’s most important technology announcement of the year, was yesterday, when it said it had figured out a way to build chips with a radical new design, a “3-D” transistor, which has a “fin”…
EA Apparently Testing Next-Gen X-Box
According to a post over at Develop Online, Electronic Arts is testing out the next generation Xbox but as of this point there is no new console design included. Instead, the hardware for the…
Venture Capitalist Joanna Rees: San Francisco’s “Innovation” Mayor?
By Tom Foremski
Wednesday afternoon was one of those rare San Francisco days where it was too hot to stay working indoors, so I popped over to an event that Peter Hirshberg, a local entrepreneur, had told…
WiFi Hotspots Prove Mobile Ad Gold Mine, JiWire Raises $20M
JiWire, a provider of mobile and location-based marketing solutions, announced it has raised $20 million in a third round of funding. The round was led by Palo Alto, Calif.-based Trident Capital, and existing investors…