So in essence, this announcement is about Intel technologies still in development, a variety of complex Oracle stuff, and the overhyped industry concept of cloud computing. Oh, and I forgot to add that the two companies mix encryption into this nebulous morass.
Oracle is famous for using its Oracle World conference to announce everything but [...]
Another addition sees the media ribbon along the bottom edge that serves as an on-demand photo and video gallery, but which also has new privacy and interaction controls. The content can now be titled, shared, or set as wallpaper directly from the phone. When privacy mode is on, photos are invisible to the public unless [...]
Facebook users can now import YouTube, StumbleUpon, Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and Google Reader into the social network’s Mini-Feed.
By doing this, Facebook users will be opening up their actions at these sites to their friends. The service, which was announced on Facebook’s blog on Friday, is similar to one offered by FriendFeed.
Facebook had already [...]
It’s now mass-market time for the iPhone. If I may make a sweeping generalization, the early buyers of the iPhone seemed to reflect two types of people. One, the hardcore gadget-lovers who had been waiting for an Apple-designed phone for years to replace their Palm, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry smartphone and didn’t care that [...]
Antivirus provider AVG Technologies on Tuesday announced that it is acquiring Sana Security, which sells identity fraud prevention software.
Sana’s products use behavioral technology to block attackers from stealing sensitive information. The software analyzes normal application behavior and recognizes abnormal behavior caused by malware infections, user configuration errors, and software bugs.
Under the deal, [...]
Despite the fact there’s not an official variant of Firefox for mobile devices outside of Minimo, which is far from the experience Baker was describing, she has a bold vision for what she thinks browsing on mobile devices should be like. Baker thinks one of the most important factors is making it so people won’t [...]
But as reported Tuesday, Icahn’s proxy fight is what’s keeping the controversial severance plans in play.
B. Get a hearing before the Delaware Chancery Court and ask the judge to invalidate Yahoo’s employee severance plan. Icahn, should he go this route, may want to act long before the August 1 meeting, because if his proxy [...]
PEWeek reported on Thursday that the fund will be over $400 million and have input from Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore.
Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr last week gave the keynote speech at the MIT Energy Conference where he said that green tech needed much more investment.
This late-stage funding is particularly important in the energy business [...]
Green chemistry: how green bricks convert nitrogen oxide air pollution into nitrates with the sun.
When fertilizers are applied heavily, high levels of nitrates can enter the soil or water and be toxic to humans or livestock. Jos Brouwers from the University of Twente said that the nitrate production from its paving stones will be “harmless” [...]
Dustin Moskowitz, one of Mark Zuckerberg’s co-founders at Facebook and one of the young CEO’s longtime confidants, has left the company according to Valleywag. He’s leaving to found an undisclosed new company with Justin Rosenstein, another departing Facebook engineer, the blog said.
Facebook representatives were not immediately available to confirm Moskowitz’s departure.
In recent years, Moskowitz’s role [...]
