Facebook and Groupon: Our Social Media Bubble?
Every few years we see the media grow big-eyed at the signs of a bubble–a housing bubble, an investor bubble, or in this case, a social media bubble. And this isn’t the first time…
EMC Breaking Records Gallery
By Ricky McGill
EMC held a stellar event in New York City showcasing a knockout new product line that is sure to turn some heads. SiliconAngle was the to capture it all. So lets us take you through…
Internap Launches XipCloud Elastic Storage
Internap has announced the new public cloud storage service built with Openstack’s software. OpenStack is a cloud computing project run by Rackspace Cloud and NASA, Rackspace being one of Internap’s major competitors. OpenStack is…
Trapster Hacked, Compromises Millions of Users
Trapster, a crowdsourcing-based online service which warns iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Garmin and TomTom GPS owners of police speed traps, announced yesterday millions of e-mail addresses and passwords may have been compromised. Trapster suffered two…
Kindle Digital Changes Name And Extends Platform
Kindle Digital Services announced today the extension of the 70 Percent Royalty Option to books sold to Canadian customers from the Kindle Store for Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, or one of the Kindle…
What part of congressional tether is hard to understand?
By George Ou
Verizon announced yesterday that they would appeal the FCC’s Net Neutrality ruling before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Nate Anderson of ArsTechnica wondered why Verizon is suing over a ruling that is so…
Windows 7 SP1 RTM Shows Up on Torrent Sites
So it’s official, well sort of – the Release to Manufacture (RTM) version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is out in the wild. According to the Windows 8 Beta blog the RTM version;…
Are European Startups Lazy?
By Tom Foremski
The UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph is running a series of articles about startups and has commissioned several columns. Wendy Tan White is the founder and CMO of Moonfruit, a successful UK based startup…
PosDev Award: Christopher Wells and Virtualization in Japan
As I wrote in a post after VMworld last year, it is the army of VCPs and VMUG volunteers around the globe that are helping to drive the adoption of virtualization technologies. Joe Onisick,…
3 Tech Products I’m Really Happy With
By Jeff Nolan
Here are 3 products I use everyday that I am exceptionally happy with: 1) My Evo mobile hotspot… yeah the Evo is a great handset and if the batter life were better it would…