Shutterfly is a popular Internet-based photo sharing and personal publishing company that manages a persistent store of more than 6 billion images with a transaction rate of up to 10,000 operations per second. Here’s why it made the journey from Oracle to MongoDB. Read More »
Archive for January 2011
The flood of venture capital from 2005 through 2007 slowed considerably, but after a slow 2009, the money and venture investors seem to be back in funding action. In 2010 2,792 companies raised a total of $23.7 billion. See what’s changed in this infrographic. Read More »
Setting up a streaming music service in the U.S. isn’t easy, thanks to the company holding the music industry’s purse strings. That company is Apple, and according to Spotify’s head of business development Faisal Galaria, it’s a force that may be impossible to reckon with. Read More »
Al-Jazeera has been reporting live from the unrest in Egypt, attracting countless viewers from all around the world to it’s English-language 24/7 TV feed. The network’s strong online presence is a direct result of being ignored by all of the big U.S. cable networks. Read More »
According to some new research issued by Forrester, desktop videoconferencing is not yet taking the enterprise by storm. It found that nearly three-quarters of business technology users don’t want to use desktop videoconferencing, and just 15 percent have access to the tool on their computers. Read More »
T. Boone Pickens — BP Capital founder, and creator of the Pickens Plan — hit The Daily Show for the second time in as many years last night, and discusses how Obama’s pledge to reduce oil use from the Middle East hasn’t moved forward. Read More »
If you’re away from a computer or just having trouble connecting to a live stream source on your desktop browser, you may still be able to find news on the civil unrest in Egypt on your iOS device, using a couple of different app-based options. Read More »
We are all concerned about online privacy, but not enough to do much about it, according to a new survey. Which raises the question: browsers like Firefox, Chrome and IE9 are adding support for a “Do Not Track” feature, but will anyone actually use it? Read More »
While Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop set tongues wagging with talk that it is open to “build or join a competitive ecosystem,” which suggests that it is looking at Android or Windows Phone 7, I think it’s still too early for Nokia to look to another OS. Read More »
Thin film solar company HelioVolt has largely adopted a code of silence for more than a year, but it appears to be emerging from the cocoon. The company has borrowed $8.5 million in debt and begun to tout its technology again. Read More »
VOIP and video chat solutions are becoming much more common and user-friendly. While I recommend Skype because it’s multi-platform, I’m going to take you through changing the audio/visual settings on a variety of Mac-based voice and video apps, including iChat, Skype and FaceTime. Read More »
Michael Dell is talking this week talking about having acquisition plans in “software, data centers, cloud computing, storage and virtualization,” which raises questions about who it might be eying up. There are five vendors, in particular, that could give high value for a relatively low price. Read More »
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