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WiredReach, maker of peer-to-peer file-sharing application BoxCloud, has built a new service built around sharing media easily and quickly. CEO Ash Maurya says CloudFire is similar to services such as WeBot, but and doesn’t require a client on the end user’s computer. It does, however, require your host PC to be on.
CloudFire is integrated into [...]

We all spend an inordinate amount of time using technology; some of us even read and write about it as well. So how is technology affecting us, exactly? How does it change our perceptions, and how we are perceived? ETech will bring together people in San Diego March 3-6 who are looking to explore those [...]

If we’ve learned anything from the desperate fight between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the democratic nomination for President, it is that success is never inevitable. (Image from award-winning cartoonist, Nick Anderson, of The Houston Chronicle.)

The analysis of why Obama surged so effectively against the self-proclaimed assumptive nominee, Clinton, has been instructive in […]

Jay Gould, a former owner of pioneering social network and video-sharing site Bolt.com, has launched Gamers Media, an ad network for casual game sites. It is one of several other startups, such as NeoEdge and Mochi Media, which launched last year, seeking to monetize the hugely popular casual games market.

After the bankruptcy of Bolt.com […]

IBM today announced a new mainframe, z10, targeting the enterprise data centers, that consumes 85 percent less power than traditional x86 servers and needs a much smaller real estate footprint. Big Blue claims a single z10 is equal to 1500 ×86 servers and uses 64 quad core processors.

Google is down $35 a share to around $451 and continues to be under pressure. Why? comScore came out with January U.S. paid search data and it doesn’t look good. Google’s sponsored clicks were down 7 percent month-over-month, effectively flat year-over-year and down 12 percent quarter-over-quarter. Ben Schachter of UBS, while trying to downplay the […]