Following Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha’s presentation at Mobilize of the new Moto phone Cliq and Android-powered OS MotoBlur, Jha paused amidst a papparazzi-like onslaught of attention for his new phone for a lively on-stage discussion about the big picture with Google VP Engineering Andy Rubin and… Read More »
Bio:Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004. She currently covers the web for GigaOM. In 2006, she founded NewTeeVee, a GigaOM Network site that is now the preeminent source for news and analysis about the intersection of entertainment and technology. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in linguistics and started her career as a reporter at Red Herring.
Disclosures and conflicts of interest: Liz’s husband does some contract work for Facebook. Neither of them are not shareholders in the company.
Recent Posts
There are roughly 4,000 total mobile applications that make use of location context today, according to Ted Morgan, founder and CEO of Skyhook Wireless. That’s up from “a year and a half ago, probably only five in the world.” Skyhook, which delivers location information for Apple’s… Read More »
“It’s not about the mobile web, it’s about this PC Internet going mobile,” was Intel’s pitch to open up our Mobilize 09 conference in San Francisco this morning. The Internet is becoming more personal, social, rich, real time, intelligent, location-aware, contextual, dynamic and interactive, said Pankaj… Read More »
It seems the British government is going loony for anti-piracy rhetoric from the likes of U2 and David Geffen. Legislation proposed in the UK today would allow government ministers to cut off Internet access to persistent file-sharers. The bill comes out of one minister’s desire to… Read More »
Tonight Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld. Apple has apparently kept the event quiet as it doesn’t want to overwhelm the AT&T network. Apple in June released its own HTTP streaming protocol which uses… Read More »
Which venture capital firms are “eating their own dog food” and consuming cloud services, asked Paul Kedrosky of a panel of VCs who invest in web infrastructure. You can just wave your hands if you’re running your firm on the cloud, he said. Let’s just say… Read More »
SAP, not exactly an early cloud adopter, thinks cloud computing will factor significantly into large-scale computing services, said SAP CTO Vishal Sikka in conversation with GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham at the Structure 09 conference in San Francisco today. But that doesn’t mean enterprise services of the future… Read More »
