Adobe still plans to deliver Flash 10.1 on mobile devices — CEO Shantanu Narayen says that smartphones need it and will see Flash in the second half of this year. Ironically, Narayen argued Flash’s relevance in a video interview that works just fine on an iPad. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
Interactive advertising startup BlackArrow has secured a $20 million Series C Round of financing, led by new strategic investor NDS. The investment also underlines a new strategic alliance between the companies, which will attempt to extend BlackArrow’s interactive capabilities to new markets. In… Read More »
Every time you send out 140 characters over the social application Twitter, how much energy does that consume? According to some back of the napkin calculations each tweet consumes about 90 joules. That means each tweet emits about 0.02 grams of C02 into the atmosphere. Read More »
A new open platform called XAuth is being released Monday by Meebo, with the support of Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo, JanRain, Disqus, and Gigya. XAuth detects whether or not a user is logged into web services elsewhere so a publisher can prominently display those preferred sites. Read More »
Collective buying site Groupon has taken $135 million from DST and Battery Ventures, valuing it at more than $1 billion. It has now raised more than $170 million, with previously projected revenue of $100 million for 2010. Read More »
Berkeley, California heads up the top ten fastest cities in the US, most of them home to colleges. They are well represented in the global-100 as well. Amongst large cities New York is the fastest and Delaware is still the fastest state in the Union. Read More »
Amyris Biotechnologies, a startup that develops synthetic organisms to make chemicals and biofuels — and one of our 10 greentech IPO picks — has officially filed to raise $100 million in an IPO, according to a filing on Friday. Here’s the S-1 by the… Read More »
The Internet got bigger, faster and more mobile in 2009, according to Akamai’s “The State of the Internet” report. Akamai’s network saw a sharp increase in mobile usage, and thanks to the iPhone was accompanied by more connections with speeds of 25 Mbps or more. Read More »
We’ve seen reports from some iPad owners concerning problems with Wi-Fi connectivity, especially with mobile modems. I have seen those problems first-hand, and have tested the iPad extensively to minimize Wi-Fi connectivity problems. I can report the problems can be minimized with just a couple steps. Read More »
Cloud computing — where mega-data centers serve up webmail, search results, unified communications, or computing and storage for a fee — is top of mind for enterprise CIOs. But cloud adoption will depend less on the technology involved and more on strategic and economic factors. Read More »
Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend:
MSNBC: “The Constitutional Issues Raised By Cloud Computing” (and if you’re interested in cloud computing, check out our Structure conference in June)
Inc: “6 Ruled of Website Design”
Mobile apps, thanks to the popularity of iPhone have caught the imagination of consumers. There are over 180,000 apps in the iTunes store, but not all of them are great. But if they paid attention to little details, they can experience a big windfall. Read More »
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