Ousted MySpace Executive Owen Van Natta Settles in at Zynga
Owen Van Natta is settling into a new gig, this time at Zynga. The former chief executive of MySpace and chief operating officer of Facebook has spent the past few months in advisory rolls…
Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 2: Wireless Networks
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of a two-part piece on mobile computing security measures. See here for Bert’s first article, Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 1: What’s Reasonable and Possible. Where my…
Magpie Selling Twitter Ad Network. Not for What You’d Think.
Magpie, one of the first ad bidding networks built entirely around Twitter, is now up for sale. Turns out, the team has decided to move onto bigger and better things. Two years after launching,…
Oracle Google Java Android Lawsuit – Google Innovation or Oracle Extortion – Is The Patent System Relevant?
By John Furrier
SiliconANGLE was the first to have the detailed accurate analysis on the Oracle Google Java lawsuit that was filed today by Oracle. I think that Oracle has a case in that Google clearly knew…
Oracle Sues Google – How Google Tried to End Run Java and Why Oracle’s Lawsuit Has Merit
In a terse press release yesterday released by Oracle, the company announced it is suing Google over patent infringement related to Google’s Android operating system. The release simply cited a statement from spokesperson Karen…
IBM to Pay $480M in Cash for Unica Software
IBM announced its plans to acquire software firm Unica this morning, with a payout of about $480 million in cash. The acquisition will built out IBM’s portfolio of business software and technology services, and…
Mobile Computing in Secure Environments: What’s Reasonable and Possible. Part 1
My wife works in a medium-to-high security U.S. government environment – nothing exciting, just records management, but she does handle genuine secret information, the kind of thing that could compromise ongoing operations or in…
Microsoft on Social Media Marketing
Ran across this video on the Microsoft Advertising Blog where Kate Box the head of Social Media at Microsoft Advertising UK explains her role at Microsoft and why advertisers need to be engaged in…
Microsoft’s Bing heading to the sky to map the U.S.
Talk about all the luck. Robert Scoble takes an airplane ride somewhere and ends up scoring a couple hours with Eric Waldman who just happened to be sitting next to Scoble in the airplane.…
Where is the Leadership from Infrastructure Companies on Net Neutrality?
By Tom Foremski
We won’t be able to have net neutrality/open Internet because the telcos will always have the right to prioritize their own services over their own networks. So let’s have real competition to the telcos.…