Qualcomm and Broadcom, two of the primary communications chip firms, agreed today to end their long-standing intellectual property feud, with Qualcomm agreeing to pay out $891 million to Broadcom over four years. Qualcomm, which owns the intellectual property related to the CDMA 3G wireless standard,… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
Skype is really looking to ramp up its revenues: It’s offering a 25 percent discount on its unlimited packages if you sign up for a 12-month plan. For instance, if you sign up for the Unlimited World plan, which costs $12.95 a month, you get… Read More »
In what has to be a much-needed shot in the arm for content delivery services provider Limelight Networks, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts says Limelight does not infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703 in Akamai Technologies vs. Limelight Networks. Not surprisingly,
Those of us who get a new UMPC get to spend some fun time finding utilities that can make the user experience more productive. Most UMPCs, like the Viliv S5 I am using, run a flavor of Windows and, frankly, it’s not optimized for very… Read More »
If you have been following my adventures with the Viliv S5 Premium UMPC then you are aware I have been so impressed with the little PC that I have ordered one for my own. I am getting a tremendous amount of good use out… Read More »
Across most organizations and all industries, data is exploding at an exponential rate, and CIOs are being tasked with making sense of all this information. The problem is that, often, these repositories are siloed within individual departments — pockets within the organization have their own copy… Read More »
If Sergey Brin applied for an engineering position at Google today, would he pass the requisite phone screening? Don’t be so sure: While he might look good on paper, he’d probably have to brush up on his Python programming skills first. Even if he passed, would… Read More »
Comcast is ramping up activity on its Fancast premium content portal. The cableco has been a busy beaver lately, going back to the networks and studios to get online rights to content so you can watch as much “Rescue Me” as you like…provided you can authenticate… Read More »
ShortTask is a marketplace for tasks, aiming to match-make “solvers” and “seekers”: people who have time to complete brief tasks and people who need small tasks completed. In many ways, ShortTask is similar to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service. Like MTurk, ShortTask is seeking to… Read More »
Watching videos on your iPod or cell phone is hardly ideal: If you’re lucky, the screen will be just slightly bigger than a postage stamp. Enter the Optoma Pico Pocket Projector, one of the first products available in the burgeoning category of micro-projectors. This… Read More »
When I wanted to find out who were the technology sector’s top-ranked CEOs, I reached out to Glassdoor, a Sausalito, Calif.-based company that that tracks employee satisfaction. They obliged and sent us a list of the 10 top-ranked CEOs of publicly traded technology companies.… Read More »
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