The story of Amazon creating a cloud computing business to take advantage of capacity left over from the peak holiday season has settled into the Internet apocrypha, but blogger Carl Brooks claims he’s uncovered the real reason the online bookstore got into the cloud. Read More »
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Near Field Communications, a point-to-point communications technology that can send data a few inches, is back. Yesterday Nokia said it would embed NFC chips in all of its phones and Broadcom said it would spend $47.5 million on a company with NFC expertise. Read More »
The Federal Communications Commission today voted 3-2 to issue a notice of inquiry that will formally begin the process of reclassifying broadband and enabling the agency to continue its efforts to regulate network neutrality and implement aspects of the National Broadband plan. Read More »
Silicon Valley is the hub of the technology industry, but is its status on the wane due to the high cost of living and a more mobile work force enabled by broadband and a changing culture? Read More »
The vuvuzela, the droning horn employed by soccer fans at the 2010 World Cup, has become the defining sound of the games, but thanks to increased compute power and better software, the sound can now be (mostly) erased from broadcasts before they hit your screen. Read More »
Infineon, one of the top five wireless chipmakers, has hired J.P. Morgan to seek a buyer for its wireless chip business, according to the Financial Times. Will Infineon be any more successful than Freescale or Texas Instruments, which tried and failed to sell their wireless businesses? Read More »
So far this week two storage startups offering a hardware product have launched in as many days, both offering variations on the theme that more data requires more storage and faster networks require faster access to stored data. The trend has been building for years. Read More »
Qualcomm is joining Sematech, an organization advancing research for semiconductor manufacturing, and is the first chip company that doesn’t manufacture its chips to do so. When a fabless chip company helps fund R&D on next generation manufacturing, it’s an indication that Moore’s Law is in trouble. Read More »
The U.S. is still the largest broadband market when it comes to the 30 OECD countries, according to data released late last week by the organization. The U.S. has 81.1 million connections, but it’s not enough to be a big broadband market. We need better broadband. Read More »
picoChip, maker of semiconductors for femtocells, has raised $20 million in funding, bringing its total venture capital raised to $110 million. I wrote earlier this month that PicoChip’s latest silicon could finally create an opportunity for femtocells to gain real adoption. Its investors must agree. Read More »
Cablevision has said it will purchase Bresnan Communications. for $1.37 billion in a bid to move into Western states such as Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana where Bresnan has subscribers. Cablevision, the nation’s fifth largest cable operator, will gain 300,000 subscribers as part of the deal. Read More »
SeaMicro, a startup building a low power-server using Atom chips and its own specially designed silicon to handle the networking, has finally unveiled its hardware, which is pretty darn impressive. But can its $139,000 box containing more than 2,000 CPU cores win over data center operators? Read More »
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