Yahoo has taken a cue from an unusual source for its latest green data center innovation: chicken coops. Next month Yahoo will start production on a data center that will be the first implementation of a new energy efficient data center design it’s calling Yahoo Computing… Read More »
Archive for April 2010
I finally took the plunge and flashed a Sense UI ROM on my Google Nexus One. My first impressions are overwhelmingly positive — if those don’t get you excited about running Sense, then the screenshots of HTC’s interface surely will. Read More »
The secret behind Aardvark’s success was acute awareness of how close they were to failure, Aardvark co-founders Max Ventilla and Damon Horowitz said Friday. They detailed a process of rapid idea rejection and extensive testing throughout Aardvark’s short startup history. Read More »
Virgin Media Launches Movie Streaming Service; Virgin Media has launched its own browser-based movie streaming service, available to anybody in the UK — not just the cable provider’s own subscribers. (Last 100) Amazon Hopes to Drive 3-D Sales Via Consumer Education; the online retailer has started… Read More »
Mozilla has released an update to its super useful unified contact management Firefox add-on, Contacts. The new version includes quite a few nice improvements, principal among them being added support for Facebook and Yahoo contacts. Read More »
Green:Net is almost sold out! The only conference dedicated to the intersection of IT and green has just a handful of tickets left; they’re available on a first-come, first-serve basis. GigaOM readers can get a $75 discount, so register now. Read More »
The MIT Technology Review has discovered social TV in its new May/June issue, noting how Twitter and Facebook have been driving audience numbers for live events like the Olympics. That’s not really news to readers of this blog, but I’m glad to see… Read More »
Gear6, a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of Memcached-based appliances for the cloud, seems to have hit hard times, as it’s filed for assignment for the benefit of creditors. The 4-year-old company filed to liquidate its assets on Friday, according to industry sources. Read More »
Research In Motion introduces two slight refreshes today in the Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G. Incremental upgrades are always welcome, but they’re not enough to fend off other maturing smartphone challengers. Research In Motion needs to get moving on its new BlackBerry operating system. Read More »
The launch of Facebook’s open graph protocol is fueling the debate over whether it is better to be open vs. closed. But the ultimate answer may be that it depends. Being open can benefit a company in some ways, while being closed is better in others. Read More »
The County Executives of America plans to use M2Z Networks to build a nationwide wireless broadband network covering residents of its 700 members counties, and has applied for $122 million in stimulus grants to kick off the effort. Read More »
Does one set out to create a computer literate family, or to cultivate a creative family familiar with the modern communication capabilities of today’s age? The distinction is subtle, but the benefits of the latter strongly outweigh the former. Read More »
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