Any way you slice it, cloud providers and vendors are doing alright. Microsoft won its big NYC deal, rPath got $7 million, IBM is selling customers on mainframe clouds, pharma firms are snatching up cloud resources and Citrix’s cloud business is growing by the quarter. Read More »
Archive for October 2010
Email is the bridge spanning how we communicate today and one we need to burn when we reach the real future of collaboration, which will have text, video, documents and real-time context about people’s projects and work combined with ways to search and filter that information. Read More »
Time Warner Cable announced today that ESPN’s TV Everywhere offering will go live next Monday, just in time for Monday Night Football. But the vast majority of cable subs won’t be watching MNF online, but on the big-screen TV — and Time Warner Cable knows that. Read More »
This past summer, Facebook moved past Orkut in India and now it appears poised to kill off the last bit of life in Google social network. According to Technolicious, Facebook has started offering users the ability to integrate and link their accounts with Orkut. Read More »
ABC.com is blocking Google TV users from accessing their shows. Blip.tv, on the other hand, welcomes owners of Google TV devices with open arms, and YouTube’s Leanback shines when played on a big screen TV. Check out our video for these and other first impressions. Read More »
iLife ’11 was announced on Wednesday at Apple’s press event. As it was immediately available (and not too expensive), I picked myself up a copy and got straight to checking out the new features. Here’s a peek at some of the suite’s most impressive new abilities. Read More »
Now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content broadcasters put online to make sure they don’t lose advertising dollars. But the cat is out of the bag. All information is nothing more than bits on one network — the Internet. Read More »
Energy Secretary Steven Chu stopped by Google headquarters on Friday to talk about green technology. He would like China to invest in America’s green future, not own it. To challenge China’s growing lead, the U.S. may have to boost its support of homegrown technologies. Read More »
Research In Motion today added purchase and download functionality to its BlackBerry App World website, which could increase the number of app installs. Apple’s web storefront only supports discovery and still requires iTunes on the desktop, while Google has only demonstrated a web-based store for Android. Read More »
Nissan formally began production of its electric LEAF in Japan, a milestone in the trek to see a global automaker cranking out tens of thousands of electric vehicles. Now a long list of companies are racing to get their own EV factories up and running. Read More »
The FCC is stepping in on the retransmission dispute between Fox and Cablevision that has left 3 million pay TV subscribers without access to Fox broadcasts in Cablevision households, with a letter from Media Bureau Chief William Lake reminding them to negotiate in good faith. Read More »
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