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The Business Insider recently ran a well-argued, provocative piece entitled “Economy Will Be Back In Recession By Early Next Year” that takes into account the continuing job losses in the U.S. economy and the prolonged struggles within a number of industries, including finance, media, manufacturing (especially… Read More »

GigaOM’s Top 15 Mobile Influencers

Thanks to the rise of a new generation of smartphones, the Internet is going through yet another renaissance. If current trends are any indication, it won’t be long before the mobile Internet eclipses its wired counterpart. Soon hundreds of millions of people will be walking around… Read More »

What do the growth of cloud-based services, online video and an ever-increasing appetite for digital media have in common? They all require power-hungry data centers — and lots of them. It’s a challenge that hasn’t escaped the IT industry; lately Microsoft and Apple have made… Read More »

Mobile Advertising Metrics: What Matters Most

When it comes to the mobile advertising ecosystem, one of the areas that needs significant work is that of metrics and measurement. While legacy metrics such as CPC and CPM make sense to some extent, they don’t fully capture the breadth and depth of user engagement… Read More »

The UK’s Interead on Tuesday announced an agreement with Google to make more than a million titles from the search giant’s vast library of digitized public domain books available for free on its Cool-er e-book readers via the Coolerbooks.com web site. It was Google’s first e-book partnership… Read More »

Avoiding the Toll Road to the Cloud

The lack of guaranteed bandwidth and the questionable security characteristics of the public Internet will inhibit the migration of core enterprise applications into the cloud, Allan Leinwand argued in a recent post entitled “Do Enterprises Need a Toll Road to the the Cloud?” To alleviate such… Read More »

Friday marks the final day for electronic applications to be submitted for the first tranche of $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funding. As Stacey has noted, after being given just 45 days to get their applications together, many have opted to wait until the second and… Read More »

VMware Ready to Challenge Microsoft With SpringSource, Cloud Foundry

VMware has finally joined Microsoft, IBM and Oracle as one of the four horsemen in the market for platforms for building, running and managing corporate and cloud applications. With its SpringSource acquisition, VMware can now compete with specialized platform-as-a-service offerings like Microsoft’s Azure. In addition, SpringSource’s… Read More »

Microsoft Makes White-Spaces Breakthrough for Rural Broadband

Microsoft researchers have taken the next step toward turning old UHF analog TV spectrum into rural wireless broadband networks that would operate like Wi-Fi but with greater range, bypassing incumbent Internet providers like AT&T in the process. “Imagine the potential if you could connect to your… Read More »

Google’s Endgame for Mobile — Alleviating Misery?

While users’ mobile experience has improved considerably in just the last 2-3 years, in many ways, the industry is still in its infancy. Despite numerous positive developments — Apple’s iPhone and App Store representing the two most prominent examples — in a few years, we will… Read More »

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