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Apple was issued a patent on Tuesday for vehicle navigation technology that can take wireless signal strength into account for planning a route.…
Oy. what a week IBM has had. And it’s only Monday. Last week, a report surfaced that the IT giant would soon cut…
Metanautix, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by a former Google big data expert and a former Facebook senior engineer, said today that…
A Chef release engineer claims that he received death threats and abusive emails due to his contributions on projects relating to the open source configuration management tool.
New service is headed by the guy who fixed Healthcare.gov and aims to make sure those implementation snafus won’t happen again.
Aerospike, a NoSQL startup that has garnered a fair number of advertising industry customers thanks to its in-memory technology, has raised $20 million in a series C round and is open sourcing its database under the same license used by MongoDB.
Announced last month, the new Diane von Furstenberg frames for Google Glass are now available. Google(s goog) announced the news early on…
Hewlett-Packard will rely on a network of service provider and data center partners to give the HP Helion Network scale to compete with massive cloud powers.
Chris Pinkham helped build the EC2 foundation for Amazon Web Services before starting up Nimbula, which Oracle bought a year ago.
In the age of data snooping, customers need to know that no one — not their cloud provider or cloud management company — holds the key to their data, says TwinStrata CEO Nicos Vekiarides.
The future of technology will bring big changes, including advances in AI, brain-to-brain interfaces, and the ability to halt death.
GroundLink has started installing Karma hotspots in its newest Lincoln Town Cars in New York, giving customers who book them internet access as they traverse the city.
Update: HP confirmed that Dave Donatelli has a new role identifying new growth areas and Bill Veghte will step in to head the enterprise group.
http://publishingperspectives.com/2013/08/amazon-busy-negotiating-first-russian-ebook-contracts/ Amazon is working with Russian publishers to sign ebook contracts for the launch of the Russian Kindle store, Publishing Perspectives reports.…
Infrastructure nerds, it’s time to meet the accountants. At this year’s Structure conference this Wednesday and Thursday we’re focusing on the economics of cloud computing, not just for vendors, but for practitioners.
What’s the use of a hashtag these days? Facebook is adding Twitter’s iconic symbol to its platform, but it’s worth asking if the hashtag has outlived its serious fuction to become a cultural phoenomenon rather than a useful search tool.
The long weekend is here and that means a lot to read: or at least I like to do that. Here are some amazing stories about San Francisco, Rajat Gupta, Argentina in the 1970s, Buffalo, razors, Philip Dick, Facebook, Brooklyn and cars.
Three former Microsoft employees believe clothing will be the computer, and to that end they invested three years of their lives building a sensor-infused material that they promptly turned into … a pair of socks.
Thirst Labs is working on a new version of its iPhone and iPad apps that removes the Twitter timeline and mentions from options available, but the app’s news reader still has nice features to offer, assuming it can bring in more news sources outside of Twitter.
Google, which is notoriously secretive about technology advances, has opened up the vault and spit out a research paper on its Spanner database. And like other Google innovations, this one is hot. It’s a database that scales to millions of machines and trillions of rows.
Looking to gather up some friends and attend a cool concert or host a dinner party? Forget group text, with event organization apps like Saambaa, it’s easier than ever to collect and inform your friends as you make weekend plans.
The big noise in European startup events this week is all about LeWeb, the leading French conference set up by Loic Le Meur that’s holding its first spin-off in London. But that’s not the only thing happening across the continent over the next seven days.
Porn is a huge driver of online traffic, and Netflix has been successfully conditioning millions of people to consume online video with an all-you-can-eat subscription. So why hasn’t the adult industry been able to get consumers to pay up for a Netflix for porn?
The latest hires in the tech and media industry.
Rui Viana isn’t a full-time app developer and he hasn’t learned how to use Apple’s iOS SDK. Using an iPad-only development environment called Codea, he created Cargo-Bot directly on the iPad and saw more than 200,000 downloads in the first week.
Much has been written about the U.S. government’s plan to shutter 1,200 data centers. There’s been considerably less chatter about the fact that some of the remaining, revamped federal data centers are now leasing out excess capacity to other government agencies.
With his single-minded focus on creating great user experiences, Jobs redefined product design – and design in general – not just for Apple, but for designers like Typekit’s Jeffrey Veen, who found confidence and inspiration in Jobs’ work.
Netflix continues to invest in content that will help it stand out from the growing crowd of streaming video services and traditional cable TV networks. The latest evidence is a deal that will bring Norwegian-produced mobster TV show Lilyhammer to its original-programming lineup
One of the more puzzling aspects of Facebook’s mobile strategy in 2011 has been the lack of a Facebook iPad app. Turns out that the company…
Even before serious talk began that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) was in play , Specific Media co-founder and CEO Tim Vanderhook was looking for an ac…
Things at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have not turned out as planned for Anssi Vanjoki, the former EVP of devices who had been the heir apparent t…
Tony Vinciquerra is leaving News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). next month — likely for the “entrepreneurial” life — after eight years as chairman and…
To the critics that say Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wouldn’t be cleaning house right now if it had adopted Android like so many other handset manufact…
Only four months after a restructure put Anssi Vanjoki in charge of Nokia’s Mobile Solutions, he resigned today from Nokia, giving six months notice. With Nokia World starting tomorrow, this is big blow to the company. Don’t be surprised by few more executive exits.
The Double Rainbow meme is dead, and it’s assisted suicide, thanks to Microsoft. Over a month after Paul “Bear” Vasquez’s reaction to a double rainbow went viral, Vasquez is now starring in a commercial for Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Arthur van Hoff helped architect Java at Sun, co-founded Marimba, and engineered the application platform at TiVo. Now he’s identifying trends in Twitter messages at The Ellerdale Project. He explains to us why real-time search is one of the most “intellectually challenging” things he’s ever done.
On Anssi Vanjoki’s second day as Nokia’s head of mobile solutions, he admits it will be no small task to ensure that the largest handset mak…
Newspapers have blamed Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for their woes, and Google, in turn, has helped remind newspapers that they did a pretty good job…
Arrested Development co-stars Jason Bateman and Will Arnett are following Will Ferrell, Ashton Kutcher and other Hollywood types into the in…
Notional, IAC’s new video production company headed by former CollegeHumor-er, Ricky Van Veen, introduced its initial lineup of programming yesterday (via Variety).…
Our bandwidth and the speeds at which we access the web will grow fivefold over the next few years thanks to advances…
Alcatel-Lucent (s ALU) CEO Ben Verwaayen gave a keynote speech this morning at the EmTech conference, running today and tomorrow at MIT.…
Former MySpace (s nws) SVP of Engineering Allen Hurff is launching a startup incubator in Southern California, according to TechSlate TrendSlate, which…
For every branded entertainment company that shuts down, there’s another online video startup or digital content JV ready to take its place.…
Legendary Pictures has tapped *EA* and *Activision* vet Kathy Vrabeck to head up its new interactive entertainment arm (via Variety). Vrabec…
Larger-than-life online video personality Gary Vaynerchuk has gone from wine red to hot pink for a new original production, Obsessed. A long-form…
The Generations Network’s Ancestry.co.uk is taking on former eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) UK marketing director Olivier Van Calster as its UK MD. Belgi…
Whoopi Goldberg to Produce and Star in New Online Series; shown on FEARnet, the sci-fi thriller Stream will be about Goldberg’s character…
Kathy Vrabeck has resigned as head of Electronic Arts’ Casual Entertainment division, GameDaily reports, just 18 months after taking on the…
The biggest technology challenge in the era of Mad Men mainly entailed figuring out the Xerox machine. These days, the tech issues are a bit…
Olympia Verla, the German publisher of its native Kicker and other magazines, is investing an undisclosed sum in SpielerKabine.net, a web pl…
Founders Gary Swart and Stephen Pieraldi presided over the Venture Capital and Seed Financing Workshop at GigaOM’s recent Structure 08 conference .…
It’s awesome when technology invades real life to make it better, like the way email makes letter-writing and photo-sharing easier. Louis Vuitton…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may have stolen yesterday’s headlines with the news it finally supports 3G, but Nokia (NYSE: NOK) SVP Anssi Vanjoki (via…
-British telco BT’s (NYSE: BT) CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down after six years on June 1, to be replaced by Ian Livingston, CEO of the BT R…
AOL (NYSE: TWX) has lost another top exec at its advertising unit Platform-A, as Curt Viebranz has stepped down from the top job as presiden…
This morning, Nokia
The flow of PE-led buyouts in the media and entertainment field have certainly come to an abrupt halt, fueled by increase in deal multiples…
