Qualcomm said today it has purchased AMD’s handheld graphics unit (acquired during AMD’s $5.4 billion acquisition of graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies) for $65 million. The deal shows that AMD is betting big on full-performance machines, from servers to laptops — rejecting its rival Intel’s move… Read More »
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Lately we’ve been discussing the many reasons why taking smaller, angel-sized investments instead of larger venture capital stakes often makes more sense for startups in a wobbly, exit-bereft market like the current one. Today, Ron Conway, the well-known founder of the Silicon Valley-based Angel Investors LP… Read More »
Desktop virtualization is far from a new topic, in fact it dates back to the inception of the client-server model. But there are still virtualization startups out there, among them Redwood City, Calif.-based MokaFive, which is gunning for a chance to go up against Microsoft,… Read More »
“[Scott] Cook has an unusual ability to ask the right questions (which my partner Vinod Khosla insists is more important than getting the right answers; in business, there are often several right answers),” writes VC John Doerr, of Intuit founder Scott Cook,… Read More »
WebWorkerDaily: Our first WWD contest. Answer the question – What role will the web worker play in global economy in 2008 – and win a keyboard-mouse set. Earth2Tech: Tesla Musical Chairs: Who’s In, Who’s Out. What its all about. Earth2tech: Vinod Khosla, caught on tape… Read More »
Telecom investors are seeing green. First we had telecom uber investor Vinod Khosla with his burgeoning clean tech portfolio. Then father of the Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe joined the party. Now we have FON founder Martin Varvasky getting interested in Solar farms.… Read More »
All right, so Dr. Dre, born André Romell Young, 42, might not have always been the quintessential role model for khaki-wearing entrepreneurs. He once threw TV host Dee Barnes down the stairs after she aired a feud within his rap group on air (the incident gained… Read More »
Those meddling kids at Gameindustry.biz have pulled a Scooby-Doo, admirably snooping around Sony’s corporate site and unearthing more details on the company’s upcoming PlayStation Home social network. A PDF for Sony’s third-party developers reveals tons of details about the potentially industry-shaking service. According… Read More »
Social Media, Web 2.0 and all new technology enabled businesses are creating a whole new class of jobs. Here is a list of five new job categories that have been created by the Web 2.0 boom. Take a look, and decide which job works best for… Read More »
Ash sent me this link about Nokia Digital TV line-up. It looks like a pretty comprehensive line up of satellite set-top boxes, including three models with hard disk drives and bluetooth. Seems like pretty cutting edge stuff to me, though doesn’t seem like that… Read More »
The future of Broadband is in Suburbia, says Washington Post. Not surprising, given that most of the big phone companies are devoting their FTT-X resources to new developments, also know as greenfield projects. The article highlights Brambleton, a suburb somewhere near Dulles Airport, and… Read More »
Microsoft is going to launch a new version of Windows XP Media Center in a big splashy ceremony today in LA. Where else! Suddenly LA is all that for the tech types. Anyway they are also going to release a new product called, Media Center Extender,… Read More »
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