When the ISPs Worry About ACTA, You Know We’re in Deep
I have written quite a bit about the whole ACTA mess because to me this is one of the most dangerous pieces of global trade laws that has ever been put together. It is…
Poisoning The Well – A Response To Privacy Concerns
By Tom Foremski
Facebook is paving the way for lax privacy controls and where Facebook leads others are bound to follow. Trying to control how much others know about you is going to become increasingly difficult. Yes,…
Video: Pat Gelsinger Announces SAP Partnership With EMC for Comprehensive Solution For Private Cloud
By John Furrier
Pat Gelsinger, president of EMC, announced on SiliconANGLE’s “The Cube” at Sapphire that EMC has partnered with SAP to deliver a comprehensive enterprise solution. Storage and networking are becoming very critical in the new…
Short Video Clip: Pat Gelsinger Talks About Intel vs EMC Culture – EMC is More Customer Focused
By John Furrier
Pat Gelsinger, ex Intel 30 year vet now the President and COO of EMC, sat down with me and Dave Vellante at SAP Sapphire to talk tech and what EMC is doing at SAP…
Facebook and Zynga Ink Five Year Deal
Facebook has closed a deal with online game maker Zynga, creator of the mega-hit Farmville as well as many other titles. The two companies wil partner for another five years, and the agreement will…
Retreevo Study: Online Regrets…
By Tom Foremski
Online electronics store Retreevo, published a study that found 32 per cent of people had posted something that they later regretted. But the damage done was relatively small: – Of that 32%: 3% say…
Evolve or Die: Content Sharing and the TechCrunch/Fortune Debacle
So Fortune released a book entitled The Facebook Effect and asked Michael Arrington from TechCrunch to endorse it. Which he glowingly did because he respected the author. Before asking, the people at Fortune gave…
DDN – Who?
By Secret CTO
I hear that DDN (Data Direct Networks) is the ‘best’ kept secret in the storage industry. Well, I guess that depends on how you define ‘best’. But the word on the street is that…
Facebook’s All-Hands Meeting: Just Like Amy Winehouse at Rehab
My “moral weather-vane” for technology Jason Calacanis has set his cross-hairs on Facebook and their privacy issues. As a user of Facebook, I worry that giving us too many choices as to privacy is…
Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute
Networks and media companies are inking deals left and right for location-based services like MyTown, FourSquare and GoWalla. Travel Channel has already found early success with its MyTown application to the tune of 17…