Last week, we announced the Structure 50, a list of companies that are influencing how the cloud and infrastructure evolves. In a few weeks, you can meet and hear about these companies at Structure 2011. Read More »
Archive for May 2011
Apple continues to sign up more publishers for its in-app subscription plans, the appeal of which is fairly obvious, but there also seems to be a growing wave of interest in doing an end-run around Apple and using the open web to offer a magazine experience. Read More »
MacDefender is the latest, and arguably the most significant Mac malware threat we’ve seen in a long time. Apple support reportedly isn’t offering help over the phone to affected customers, but doing so could set a costly precedent, and there’s arguably a better solution available long-term. Read More »
j2 Global, the company behind eFax, is extending its telecommunication offerings. For clients who do not need fax, email and web conferencing, j2 offers eVoice, which competes with the likes of 8×8 Virtual Office Solo and Google Voice in offering a business telecoms for smaller organizations. Read More »
Server monitoring startup ServerDensity will launch an app store for plugins to its popular cloud-based service. Like many SaaS startups, ServerDensity provides a collection of core components, but is hoping to rely on its user community to address the longtail needs of certain customer segments. Read More »
EQAL confirmed that it has raised some cash in an effort to bolster its sales and business development teams while trying to grow its platform for social publishing. According to an SEC filing, the company raised $650,000 of a $3.5 million round, but investors weren’t disclosed. Read More »
Fiber broadband is finally coming into its own, thanks to the growing number of fiber broadband deployments across the world. However, fiber broadband’s growing popularity is coming at the cost of DSL, one of the more widely deployed broadband technologies Read More »
Channelography makes it possible to search across the BBC’s programming for people, places and companies to learn who was mentioned on which show. The experimental EPG makes use of closed captions for semantic analysis, and utilizes all of this data for some great visualization. Read More »
Mark down yet another clean power project that Google plans to back. This morning, Google announced that it’s providing $55 million for part of the construction of a 1.5 GW wind farm being built by Terra-Gen Power in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. Read More »
With the smartphone market zooming ahead, Microsoft formerly announced the latest update to its new Windows Phone 7 operating system called Mango, which brings a host of features that leverage Bing, Facebook and rich use of the hardware. But the release is not scheduled until fall. Read More »
Condé Nast continues its rollout of iPad magazine subscriptions with two marquee titles today, Wired and GQ. Both are now available both monthly for $1.99, and yearly for $19.99, and existing print subscribers will be able to access iPad editions for free. Read More »
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