Twitter Tries More Upgrades During World Cup 2010
Facebook is holding on tight to its contact information, and Twitter determined to bring out the fail whale as many times as possible during the World Cup. After adding an update that would allow…
Google Defeats Viacom in $1 Billion Lawsuit, YouTube Still a Battleground
Google gets its victory over Viacom, and big brand media overall. Is anyone surprised? The search engine giant seemed pretty confident in its acquisition of YouTube knowing the trouble it was in with Viacom.…
PapayaMobile Raises $4M for Android Game Platform, Playing iPhone Catchup
PapayaMobile has raised $4 million towards the launch of its new mobile social networking platform, which will be available on Android mobile devices. The move is smart for the Beijing-based company, as it already…
Cisco & Brocade Get the Smackdown: HP Selects QLogic for FCoE Switch Technology
By John Furrier
Wow!! the HP Cisco war that we were the first to report is showing some movement and shaking up the pecking order of the industry. Just earlier in the week HP announced the new…
Babbel Voice Recognition, myTouch Genius Button and Microsoft Xbox 360 Design
Online language-learning site Babbel has added voice recognition, giving users a real-time feedback system. As part of the lessons, users are encouraged to speak to the web-based Babbel site, where their pronunciation can be…
Datacenters Are Cloudy – A New Network Infrastructure Model
By John Furrier
The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and increasing the operational budgets and…
Cloud Predictions: My Chat With Tom Roloff EMC Senior VP Consulting
By John Furrier
Tomorrow I’ll be at the GigaOm Structure 10 cloud event and I’ll see Tom Roloff who will be speaking there. Tom is a great guy but very much on top of one of the…
Primal Pages and Public API Customize Semantic Web Search
Primal is adding a few things to its semantic search tools today at the Semantic Tech Conference, including the launch of Primal Pages and the availability of its public API. The two new features…
Mobile Action: Apple 3m iPads <3 months & Skype Gets Smart Launches SkypeKit For Developers
By John Furrier
Big news today is that Apple announced that they have sold over 3 million iPads in only 80 days after its introduction in the US. Even more impressive is that Apple just this month…
Posterous Gives Power to the Ning People, More to Come.
Posterous is moving towards blogging domination. Over the next 15 days, the simple blogging solution will enable free import options for a number of services, starting with Ning. TechCrunch surmises that WordPress is up…