If you’re just hearing about SOPA and PIPA, the complexity of these controversial bills can seem daunting. Here’s your quick guide to the proposed pieces of legislation and a one-stop shop of resources that can help you learn much, much more. Read More »
Bio:Stacey Higginbotham is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center. She has spent the last ten years covering technology and finance for publications such as The Deal, the Austin Business Journal, The Bond Buyer and Business Week, and works remotely from Austin, Texas.
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Countless websites — including Google, Wikipedia, Scribd, O’Reilly Media, WordPress — have put up some kind of message today asking users to take action against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. Is this the new face of activism in the U.S.? Read More »
Everspin, the spin-out of Freescale Semiconductor attempting to make magnetic random access memory work, said it had shipped 4 million MRAM devices in 2011 and that Dell and LSI use its products. It also has a plan to take on the giant DRAM market. Read More »
Code 42, a Minneapolis, Minn.-based backup and software recovery company received a whopping $52.5 million round of capital from Accel and Split Rock Partners. This is the first investment from Accel’s $100-million big data fund. Read More »
In the wake of a weekend announcement that the White House wouldn’t support SOPA as written as well as the canceling of the DNS provisions in the bill, the web has shifted attention from the Stop Online Piracy Act to the Protect IP Act. Read More »
What if delivering bandwidth worked like an auction, where business bid for the right to transfer their traffic depending on how crowded the network is? Using Open Flow to create software defined networks makes such a scenario possible. Is that a good thing? Read More »
AT&T wants the Federal Communications Commission to steer clear of setting policies for the spectrum auction process and leave it up to Congress, according to a blog post filed by AT&T’s chief lobbyist Jim Cicconi. Here’s what’s behind the post. Read More »
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As the Cheezburger network joins Reddit and sites such as Wikipedia are considering a blackout on Jan. 18 in protest of Congress’ attempts to pass legislation to stop piracy, it’s becoming clear site owners believe an end to their chatter might matter. Read More »
Computer and memory chips usually tend to get smaller over time, but in a paper published Thursday in Science, IBM details how it’s building memory chips that would be 100 times more dense than today’s hard drives by starting with the smallest building blocks: atoms. Read More »
If we’re going to add Koomey’s Law to the cannon, suggesting that power requirements of a unit of computing will decline by half every 18 months, we thought our readers should also know some of the other big laws out there governing technology today. Read More »
Big Switch Networks, a startup using the OpenFlow protocol to help companies build software-defined networks, has open-sourced its controller software, dubbed Floodlight. With this move, it will attempt to unseat networking giant Cisco by creating an ecosystem of startups building tools for SDNs. Read More »
Many of us are using our smartphones to track our health, but much like the web, it’s hard to say what’s a worthwhile app or not. Happtique, a startup wants to change that by creating a certification program for medical apps. Read More »
Intel today signed a deal with Plessey Semiconductor that gets it into next big chip opportunity –sensors. It also gets Intel back into the ARM architecture, however indirectly, as Plessey was the first company to license the ARM-processor all the way back in 1992. Read More »
Representative Darrell Issa has called a Jan. 18 hearing that will bring more voices from the technology industry to Washington D.C,. to discuss how legislation such as the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would affect the Internet. Read More »
Fewer venture firms raised more money during 2011. A smaller industry with more money, plus an active angel community that can put money in early stage deals, means entrepreneurs are likely to face the biggest fundraising challenge at the Series B round. Read More »
Sending a bit over a wireless network is 200 times more expensive than sending a bit over wireline, which explains some of the high costs and limits of wireless data plans. How can operators drive down these prices so wireless doesn’t lose its luster? Read More »
Facebook’s Timeline feature is the result of an engineering effort that was the equivalent of building a racing bike customized for a specific track, only without testing either until race day. At least that’s how it seems from a blog detailing how Facebook engineered Timeline. Read More »
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