Danger! Kibitzers at Work
By jamesdelong
Free Press recently took the lead in drafting a letter to the FCC expressing concern that whatever Net Neutrality rule the agency issues next week will not be enough, and laying out its demands…
By jamesdelong
WikiLeaks Debacle Raises Questions about Amazon and the Need for an Open Cloud
By Kyt Dotson
GigaOM is running a politically topical story right now about how Amazon’s actions in the WikiLeaks case have darkened the lining of the cloud-storage industry. In the wake of the release of a stack…
Gawker Hacked: Seeing Past Your Nose
By Jeff Nolan
By now you have probably read that Gawker Media’s password database was hacked and over 1 million usernames and passwords spilled out on to the web. It’s a serious problem because most people don’t…
Paris: Le Web Conference, And European Startups
By Tom Foremski
The Le Web conference in Paris was very good. Loic Le Meur and his team pulled off a great two-day show with lots of good content. It was better than last year’s Le Web,…
Who Else? Mark Zuckerberg Bags 2010 TIME Person of the Year
By Cherr Aira
The man who redefined how people in this planet connects and communicate is 2010 TIME Magazine Person of the Year—none other than Mark Zuckerberg. The unrivaled popularity of Facebook has placed its genius founder…
Dell is Unstoppable, Craves More Storage Center Deals after Compellent
By Cherr Aira
Following the $960 million Compellent acquisition deal, Dell is dead serious in getting back in the game with more plans of expansion of its storage and data centers. In less than 7 days, Dell…
ZipCar Raises $21M in 6th Round, Furthers Green Efforts
Global warming has caused green efforts to be fashionable. And here's Zipcar, a leading car-sharing service announcing $21 million in their 6th round of financing.
MCollective 1.0 boosts Puppet’s Performance with Real-time Capabilities
In Puppet Labs’ first major release since its acquisition of MCollective, we have some renewed open cloud initiatives emerging onto the scene. MCollective was already an incorporated feature for Puppet Labs’ products, and today’s…
JiWire’s New Platform Scales Local Mobile Ads
JiWire has launched a new service called Compass, which is designed to enhance location-based advertising for mobile devices. The location-based mobile media company is designing a platform around geo-specific data, enabling brands to make…
CloudBees Acquires Stax Networks
By Isha Suri
CloudBees, an innovation leader in Java cloud computing, announced the successful acquisition of Stax Networks, a pioneering Java Platform-as-a-Service solutions provider. This acquisition will facilitate the delivery of CloudBees’ own Java PaaS, RUN@cloud and…