Archive for February, 2008

Like a ballet, a patent lawsuit has dozens of carefully orchestrated steps, and today’s judgment against Limelight Networks marks the beginning of the exciting part of the show, which could drag on for years, or get cut short by a settlement. Earlier today a jury in… Read More »

Skyhook Wireless said today it will provide its Wi-Fi-based location awareness technology for users of Locr software who want to automatically add geographic information to their photos. Although fun, like many location-based services that have been long promised and poorly delivered, it’s certainly not the type… Read More »

Of all the technology subsectors out there right now, the one with the most promise is the mobile platform. This is true for many reasons, notably that: Your mobile phone is always on your person, making it a lucrative market for advertisers.… Read More »

Last week, we wrote that the registrars were under increased pressure. Their higher-margin businesses, such as turnkey hosting, were threatened by third-party hosting, simplifiers like Google, and the trend towards distributed SaaS applications. The pressure went up a notch with Google’s relaunch of Jotspot, now running… Read More »

The Wall Street Journal today discusses the trials and tribulations of the U.S. dollar in a page one story, pointing out for whom it is causing problems, worldwide, and there was this one tiny bit that caught my eye: Yet for all of the gloom, the world… Read More »

SAI: WPP Sees Some Ad Slowdown in the U.S., More to Come ArsTechnica: Intel Unveils New Embedded 45nm Xeons, Updates Chipsets Austin American Statesman: Dell Net Income Falls in Fourth Quarter LightReading: AlcaLu… Read More »

I love this post, by founder-blogger Scott Converse about his experience trying to find the right CEO to run his company, ClickCaster. Helpful as his investors are to him, Scott writes, it turns out that with respect to this particular challenge, they didn’t give him the… Read More »

More Wisdom from the Oracle of Omaha

Brad Feld maintains a great blog, and yesterday he linked to this terrific post called Notes From Buffett Meeting, dated Feb. 15. The notes are from a Q&A session that Buffett gave to students at the Emory’s Goizueta Business School and McCombs School of Business… Read More »

Next Up: I/O Virtualization?

Austin, Texas-based startup NextIO has scored $18.8 million in a third round of funding, bringing the I/O virtualization systems maker to almost $40 million in total venture capital raised since 2003. It’s attacking one of those nitty-gritty technical problems in data centers and tossing around today’s… Read More »

How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different

Written by Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpace Technologies. We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology — the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of how we… Read More »

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