Facebook is not only launching products this week but also killing them. The company announced this morning it will no longer support Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of its site meant to load faster and be more accessible in places without broadband. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
After almost three years of obsessive iPhone typing, we have grown accustomed to its keyboard. When the iPad was released, things changed. Read More »
My health care plan focuses on the maintenance of good health, and highlights the elements I need to manage to ensure I stay as healthy, happy and productive as possible. Here’s how it looks. Read More »
GigaOM’s flagship conference, Structure, returns on June 23rd and 24th for two days of deep insight into the cloud computing industry. Taking place at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, Structure 2010 promises to be our best edition yet. Read More »
How can buzzy fuel cell startup Bloom Energy move from its current early stage — a handful of customer and still high costs — to lower cost mass market manufacturing? If you’re Bloom Energy backer Kleiner Perkins, you look to hire a commercialization expert. Read More »
In an effort to keep its market momentum going, online video management startup Brightcove has announced that it hired a new senior vice president of sales for North America. Former EMC and Savvis executive Paul Goetz will be joining Brightcove’s executive team… Read More »
I found this photo while searching through Creative Commons on Flickr, image courtesy of Stéfan’s photostream. Love the description: “Destroying planets without harming the environment with nasty greenhouse gases.” Read More »
The World Bank, which tracks everything from mortality rates to livestock production in hundreds of countries around the globe, said today it is opening up its data, including removing all of the pay walls around data that used to require a subscription fee to download. Read More »
The news coming out of Palm just gets worse and worse. Analysts are quick to point out what Palm has done wrong to find itself in this untenable position, but the way forward is anything but clear. Is it time for Palm to call it quits? Read More »
The concept behind Socialwok is a good one: leverage the power of the Google Apps mail, documents, calendar, and instant messaging functions to let companies and organizations create interactive discussion timelines. Read More »
How do all our favorite Internet and computing companies, like Google and Apple, stack up when it comes to fighting climate change? You’ll soon find out in the latest release of Greenpeace’s IT ranking system, which it will launch at our Green:Net event. Read More »
Privacy authorities from 10 countries this morning released a joint letter at a conference in Washington, D.C., taking Google to task over the way it launched its social tool, Google Buzz, saying the new service “betrayed a disappointing disregard for fundamental privacy norms and laws.” Read More »
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