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Mark Cuban, the histrionics-prone billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, caused a major ruckus over the weekend when he wrote a stinging essay entitled “The Internet is Dead and Boring.”
The essay lit a fire under the bloggers, who turned into NBA officials for the day, declaring – loudly — that Cuban was in [...]

Contrary to published reports and popular opinion alike, the most important impact of open source on the enterprise has not been on pricing.
The single most important impact of open source upon the enterprise has been the removal of barriers to entry and adoption - all thanks to open source’s ability to empower individual developers and [...]

As we had reported earlier, Earthlink (ENLK) announced a major restructuring. They will hold a conference call tomorrow morning. According to their news release, they are going to shut down many satellite offices and about 900 people will lose their jobs. As a result of the corporate restructuring, EarthLink expects to generate $25 - [...]

Johnson & Johnson-owned BabyCenter wants to get hip, and gets on the social networking bandwagon. And to make that happen it has acquired Palo Alto-based niche social network, Maya’s Mom, reports PaidContent. (Disclosure: True Ventures is an investor in both GigaOM and Maya’s Mom.)
Rafat says that BabyCenter is shifting focus from e-commerce to content, [...]

The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words eco and military strung together is irony, right? The U.S. military doesn’t think so. It wants to save money on energy, use new technologies that can be useful in remote environments. Here is a list of 7 eco tools the military has [...]

Akamai (AKAM), under pricing pressure from upstart rivals such as Limelight Networks (LLNW), is upping the ante in the content delivery network wars. The company yesterday announced a new distributed delivery mechanism optimized for the delivery of high definition-quality content online.
The push for HD video over the Internet is a way for Cambridge, Mass.-based [...]