Archive for April, 2008

Ruby Gets Some Enterprise-level Support

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 9:01 PM PT Comments (2)

As Ruby on Rails rose to prominence in the last few years, the platform has faced derision from some programmers over its inability to scale for enterprise applications. Ruby on Rails might be good for making interactive web pages, but it was no C or Java. Benchmark Capital aims to change that with an investment [...]

Worried by iPhone, Mobile Cos Turn To Synaptics

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (1)

The LG Secret launched today with a touch screen powered by Synaptics touch capacitors, a technology whose star has risen in the consumer devices universe in the wake of the iPhone. The iPhone uses a grid layout of capacitive sensors to enable multi-finger gestures, something that wouldn’t be possible with resistive sensors. Sensing capacitors are [...]

HP’s Circuit Innovation

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM PT Comments (3)

Hewlett-Packard has come up with a new type of circuit called a memristor — a conflation of the words memory and resistance — in the form of a chip capable of storing data and processing it without being limited to the binary zeros and ones. The technology was theorized almost 40 years ago, but [...]

Structure 08 — Last Day for Ticket Discounts

Edit Staff, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 2:48 PM PT Comments (1)

Today is the last day to get a super-saver discount on tickets for Structure 08, our upcoming conference dedicated to web infrastructure. In addition to keynotes from speakers including Jim Crowe, chairman and CEO of Level 3 Communications, the event will feature the first-ever workshop on Google’s App Engine. Learn from the masters at [...]

Google Claims Less is More on Click-Throughs

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM PT Comments (7)

Google isn’t evil and it isn’t being beaten down by the recession or fewer click-throughs on its ads. At least that’s the message CEO Eric Schmidt tried to convey during an interview with Maria Bartiromo that will air on CNBC after the close of markets today.
The grown-up Googler sat down with the Money Honey [...]

Interop Vegas, Land of the Inexpensive and Powerful

Allan Leinwand, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 9:46 AM PT Comments (11)

I’m here in Las Vegas for the annual Interop show for IT professionals, and I’m finding it to be far livelier — and better attended — than I had expected it would be. In fact, I may need to rethink my belief that Web 2.0 has killed the networking engineer, as hordes of my compatriots [...]

E2T Video: PG&E CEO Paints the Future of Utilities

Edit Staff, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (0)

The CEO of California utility PG&E, Peter Darbee, recently said that he’d like to use the company’s deep pockets to buy solar thermal plants. Turns out that’s just the beginning of the things he’d like to change about how utilities operate. Check out Earth2Tech’s video clip of a roundtable discussion with Darbee as he [...]

Time Warner Begins Death by 1,000 Cuts

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 7:02 AM PT Comments (7)

The giant Time Warner implosion starts now with the move to split off its growing cable division and use the capital to buy back shares. While the cable business brought some stability to Time Warner’s bottom line, it’s an awkward asset for a content company to hold onto, especially if the content side of the [...]

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