Google Doodle Surprise! and Android Speech Translation.
Google has a thing up its sleeve, or maybe two. New Logo and Android Speech Translation
Why Do We Use Twitter, and Why Do Brands Care?
ExactTarget conducted a survey of 1,500 consumers from US and cited crown motivators for people to be using and following companies on Twitter .
Amazon Hires Microsoft Game Veteran, Acquires Amie Street
Two news items coming from Amazon today: a gaming veteran hire and a music site acquisition, Amie Street. Amazon has poached a top video game specialist from Microsoft, Andre Vrignaud, as a new executive…
Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit, Speaking on Coop-atition
Oracle has responded to HP’s lawsuit, citing former CEO Mark Hurd has violated his contract with the company in taking a co-President position at Oracle. The statement is short, consisting entirely of the following:…
Microsoft’s Kinect Countdown
Looks like Microsoft might be looking forward to the day that Kinect hits consumers so much so that they have a great big honkin’ countdown timers keeping track of the days, hours, minutes left.…
Craigslist and the Nuances of Illegal Sex
By Jeff Nolan
It’s the issue that just won’t go away. I wrote about this over a year ago, here and here. The New York Times makes a ridiculous assertion that Craigslist has removed the section and…
VMworld 2010: VMware Makes Good on Interop, But What’s Next?
By Nate D'Amico
After its announcement and unveiling of vCloud last year, VMware has followed things up over the past year with a lot of hard work to move their Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering along and make good on…
The Hurd Roundup; A Series of Short Stories
Former HP CEO Mark Hurd has had his fair share of attention these past few weeks, with his post-scandal resignation and subsequent hire as Oracle’s new President. And between Hurd’s transgressions and the drawn-out…
Virtualization, the Cloud, and Mobile Computing Combining to Create Computing Fourth Wave
Virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile computing are combining to create a new wave of computing with tremendous implications for business. This new wave is user-centric, platform independent, and extremely flexible and responsive to business…
Mark Hurd Sued by HP, Less than 24 Hours After Landing President Gig at Oracle
Just as Mark Hurd prepares to settle in as Oracle’s new president (announced just this morning), former employer Hewlett-Packard sues its resigned chief of staff. Filing suit in the Superior Court of California in…