The Web’s Global Map Looks Like This: Today & Tomorrow
What is the worldwide web? We know it spans the globe, and we know what we can do with it. But from a network perspective, what does it look like on a global scale?…
Yodlee Makes Good Use of Tax Payers’ Data, Launches New App
The finance industry has been crunching data for as long as it’s been around, and this is one of the reasons it takes to technology as readily as it does. When it comes to…
Amazon Cloud Drive Takes on Personal Cloud Hosting, Music Industries
Amazon music has always been a significant alternative in the iTunes culture market. And the personal cloud, notably cloud file hosting space, has been really picking up in light of Box.net’s recent $48 million…
Intel Launches 25 Nanometer Era with New SSDs
By George Ou
Intel launched their new 320 series line of Solid State Storage (SSD) 2.5 inch drives built on the latest 25 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process (Intel Press Release). The new SSD drives bring double the…
Firefox 4 for Android Picks HTML5 Over Flash
By Kyt Dotson
Only a week ago, Mozilla released Firefox 4—after a great deal of work on betas for both the PC and Android versions—and now we’ve been graced with the Android release. The biggest feature apparent…
Data2Conf Kicking Off in a Week: Highlights
This year’s Data 2.0 conference is due one week from now, launching on Monday, April 4 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The conference, hosted by midVentures, will focus on the…
Permabit’s Latest Evolution of Albiero for Linux: CEO Interview
By Isha Suri
Permabit, a leading company in the development and delivery of Data Optimized Storage, has announced the next evolution of Albiero, the only embedded high performance OEM data optimization software. This update will be providing…
The Brief History of Funrank, an Agile Startup from Finland
Earlier this year, Kristo Ovaska, Varun Singh and I decided to work on a startup together. It didn’t work, but for the right reasons. Here’s the tale of a failed “lean startup”. How it…
Europe’s Top Investor Talks about the Baltics
The Baltic entrepreneurial scene has been very active lately. The success of startups such as Rovio, Applifier, Grabcad, coupled with the Startup Sauna program scouting for the next Skype, prompted me to ask Hussein…
Citrix Takes on Unstructured Data with DataStream, MySQL’s New Traffic Cop
Citrix is launching a new product for the cloud, addressing the exponential growth the industry has witnessed in recent years. Called DataStream, the technology behind this virtual “traffic cop” is based on Citrix’s popular…