The Cloud Hits the Catwalk
The cloud’s gotten itself a foothold in just about every industry now, and evidently, the catwalk is no exception. We’ve seen a fair amount of cloud updates circling around the fashion industry, starting with…
Sony’s New 3DTV Initiative and blinkx’s Boxee Invasion
MIPTV, in partnership with Sony Corporation, today announced the launch of a 3D content initiative gathering channel buyers, 3D content producers and MIPTV in the name of superior 3DTV experience, dubbed as "3DTV Broadcast…
Music In Cloudland. Can Apple Face this Tune?
Apple’s got now serious reasons to feel threatened by a sound competitor, as Sony is about to continue in the US, Australia and New Zeeland what has started in Europe a few months ago:…
MWC Populated By Funny and Tenable Apps, Validates Mobile Markets
The latest agreement between IBM and WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) to produce a cloud-based “white label” mobile app store revolves around the powerful prospects mobile apps possess. The storefront enables mobile operators such as…
What Does IBM’s Watson Tell Us About Potential Future Expert-Systems?
By Kyt Dotson
During the test-run of IBM’s Watson in a short series of Jeopardy! matches we saw the expert-system manage to answer a lot of questions quickly and correctly—but we also saw it make some extremely…
House Votes to Block FCC Net Neutrality Rules
By George Ou
A 57% majority of the US House of Representatives has voted to block funding for the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules passed by a slim FCC majority last December. The vote now heads to the…
Obama Dips in the Valley, Wants $126M to Pump Nerds Stateside
By Isha Suri
After having his meeting with tech leaders in Silicon Valley, President Obama has now approved funding of $126 million for the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system. This funding has been included in…
Google Social Search Is All About Blocking Facebook/Twitter Search
By Tom Foremski
Google posted: Official Google Blog: An update to Google Social Search …if you’re thinking about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and your colleague Matt has written a blog post about his own experience, then we’ll bump…
Pixability Raises $1M, Growing Online Video Marketing and Analysis
This afternoon video marketing company Pixabilty will announce it has secured $1 million in a round of funding. The financing round was led by the Launchpad Venture Group, and Berry Coffman will join Pixabilty’s board…
The Mobile World is Chock-Full of Devices, Range in Price and Features
The Mobile World Conference was held this year in Barcelona, Spain and featured mobile phone innovativeness as the main point of attraction. Yet, on top of the mobile devices we have the latest application…