Don’t get mad, just get even. That certainly holds true for Tim Bucher, the former senior vice president of engineering for Apple Computer, who claimed he was wrongfully dismissed by the iconic computer maker. The man who had helped craft the Mac Mini and oversaw the… Read More »
Archive for May, 2006
Six Apart, the San Francisco-start-up behind Moveable Type and TypePad blogging platforms is adding a third one to the mix – Vox. Up until recently, Vox was known by its code-name, Comet. It is a platform designed to maintain total control over the content published by the… Read More »
The Vonage IPO and post IPO saga is getting stranger by the day – in a way that could get them a direct nomination for Business 2.0’s Dumbest 101 Things list that comes out at the end of the calendar year. On paper it seemed like… Read More »
Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) say that Internet advertising revenues hit a new record – $3.9 billion – in the first quarter of 2006. That’s a 38% jump from the first quarter of 2005, and 6% jump from the fourth quarter of 2005. You betcha,… Read More »
First there was Grouper, and then came services like Hamachi. Both have been successful, but a new breed of personal peer to peer file sharing start-ups are coming to market with their solutions, and a renewed focus on ease of use. I wrote about three of… Read More »
Internet2, a network primarily used by academic and research institutions is plenty fast when it comes to speed. It currently runs at about 10 gigabits per second. But that might seem downright glacial when the network operators are done with an upgrade. Plans are afoot to… Read More »
By Robert Young No one can argue that MySpace has been the “it girl” for the past year. And the fact that she belongs to Rupert Murdoch only seems to have heightened the envy, and gotten everyone’s knickers in a twist. As a result, it… Read More »
