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How connectivity is revolutionizing everything

Blazing fast networks, cheap silicon, always-on devices and a torrent of data will fundamentally change everything — how we consume media, how we work, and even who we are. We examined 10 areas that show how connectivity is profoundly changing the present and future of technology. Read More »

Check out our latest Green Overdrive video where we drive around LA in a Tesla Roadster 2.5, which goes 0 to 60 in a slammin’ 3.7 seconds. We’ve even got a bonus tip: how to get in and out of a Roadster in a short skirt. Read More »

 
 

Today marks history for the fledgling electric car industry with the public market debut of high-profile startup Tesla Motors. The IPO for Tesla, which is backed by intrepid entrepreneur and PayPal founder Elon Musk, is the first for a U.S. car company since Ford Motor… Read More »

Interested in finding out what information Facebook is sharing about you through its new open-graph API? Developer Ka-Ping Yee has come up with a simple tool that shows you everything the social network is sending to anyone whose app or service uses the new feature. Read More »

Force10, the networking company, filed for an IPO today, one of many companies seeking to hit the public markets. Its filing doesn’t reflect the return of the big-ticket technology offering as much as it reflects a chance to exit while it still can. Read More »

A growing number of early-stage deals and general optimism in the technology industry helped push venture capital investments up 14 percent in the third quarter of this year, to $6.1 billion from $5.3 billion in the prior quarter, according to a report released today from… Read More »

In December 2005, Google bought 5 percent of AOL, a division of Time Warner, for about $1 billion. The impetus of the deal was to keep AOL and its traffic out of the reach of Microsoft and Yahoo. Of course, the two companies tried… Read More »

Major League Baseball has added live video streams of baseball games to its $9.99 iPhone app, starting today. The games can be viewed over Wi-Fi or via the iPhone’s 3G connection — unlike the Sling video-streaming app, which only works over Wi-Fi because of… Read More »

The recent lawsuit filed last month by Tesla founder Martin Eberhard alleging the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, is trying to appropriate the legacy of being the electric car startup’s founder, might be the equivalent of Silicon Valley’s version of the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit,… Read More »

Twitter might be Oprah’s new tech love, but it goes without saying — she loves Skype, the Internet calling service that makes an appearance on her show pretty much every day. She is going to reaffirm her love for Skype on Thursday, May 21, 2009,… Read More »

The success of the future smart grid depends on using the wealth of knowledge created from building out the Internet. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe thinks we should study its lessons and apply them carefully, as does Capgemini’s Balaji Natarajan, who’s penned this handy list… Read More »

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Verizon Communications reported a strong first quarter for 2009, growing profits and sales over the previous period a year ago. The carrier reported net income of $3.21 billion and increased sales to $26.59 billion. The 12 percent boost in sales from the same period last… Read More »

A study released today by a team of leading database experts, among them Structure 09 speaker Michael Stonebraker, has been generating buzz for its assertion that clustered SQL database management systems (DBMS) actually perform significantly better for most tasks than does cloud golden… Read More »

Last night, I attended a dinner hosted by Fortune magazine at the La Mar, a new-ish Peruvian restaurant in San Francisco. The dinner, which was emceed by Fortune magazine Read More »

After success with its low-power Atom processor in netbooks, Intel is embracing the mobile Internet device, with the chip giant expected to announce at this year’s Mobile World Congress a planned MID with LG Electronics that will include 3G voice capabilities. The MID will run on… Read More »

Savvis, long a provider of co-location and dedicated hosting services, today unveiled a new cloud compute offering aimed at large corporations. Unlike Amazon, whose array of services are focused on the broader market, Savvis will start off with an on-demand computing service called Savvis… Read More »

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