Wednesday 8am Silicon Valley news report:
Internet upstarts left Sun in the dust -SFGate
The demise of Sun Microsystems as an independent company closes the book on one of Silicon Valley’s brashest upstarts and shows how great ideas get copied and commoditized in an era of relentless technological change.
The new security products will include software that filters [...]
Thursday 8am Silicon Valley news report:
Another year of handwringing on cybersecurity -SFGate
The Justice Department and states involved in the antitrust suit said that the May 2011 deadline may give them enough time to assess whether Microsoft had removed all the errors from the technical information it is required to give potential licensees who write programs [...]
In addition to the service for developers, the company also plans to introduce clouds that allow businesses to run business applications and virtualize personal computer networks, Sims said.
Much of the technology was developed using know-how that IBM developed through a partnership with Google to develop cloud services for academic computing that dates back to 2007, [...]
Windows is collapsing under its own weight, Gartner analysts charged this week. (TechNewsWorld)
It takes Microsoft too long to introduce new versions of Windows, and once a new version is released, it takes significant time for the ecosystem to support it and for the release to stabilize. Organizations need to wait for that support and stability [...]
that the original Photo 2.0 site now features video. But it’s only for Pro users and only 90-sec. clips. The idea seems to be that it’s not competing with YouTube but offering video as “long photos.”
This works for Arrington, who was originally skeptical but after a demo now thinks the vids are “a perfect [...]
Revving up App Engine. Google is launching a preview release of App Engine, a way for developers to run applications on Google’s infrastructure, using the Google’s own GFS and Bigtable. Google provides an environment including dynamic webserving, persistent storage, scaling and load balancing, APIs for authenticating users and a fully featured local environment. Act now: [...]
Death, blog not proud. , throw in Om’s non-fatal heart attack, too. The fast-paced worlds of Gawker and TechCrunch are thrown in there, too. Media is definitely moving towards hiring bloggers for piece work rather than staff reporters for life … but plenty of us are creating balanced lives that revolve around family, not our [...]
MySpace Music: Free streaming, no DRM, plus ringtones and concert ticket sales. That’s Rupert Murdoch’s idea of a music service. Interestingly, EMI is the only major not to come on board – and EMI recently hired away Douglas Merrill as CIO of Google. What’s the connection? ()
Emerging markets said no to OOXML. While many are [...]
