Jack Tramiel Remembered: The Legacy of the Commodore Founder and PC Pioneer
Quite a few people have been retroactively credited with the invention of the personal computer. One man who never claimed credit himself, but who would certainly be listed among Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Clive Sinclair, Adam Osborne, and John Roach as o...
IPO Task Force Leader: JOBS Act a Wake-up Call for Startups
"A lot of the noise in the market right now is about bringing back irresponsible IPOs. That is a short-lived strategy, and a wrong-headed strategy." This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Mana...
Europe Will Investigate Whether Motorola Uses Patents as Weapons
Not quite two months after the European Commission approved Google's pending acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola Mobility (MMI) on the grounds that it would be pro-competitive and would not impact the patent market much, the lawmaking body announc...
FTC: Privacy Requirements May Be Relaxed for Small, Maybe Big Companies
It's beginning to look a lot more like a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Suggestions" as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission today made recommendations about limiting the scope of any "Bill of Rights" emerging from the President's suggestions last February 23r...
JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape
Number of U.S. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). [Credit: Prof. Jay Ritter, for testimony before the Senate Banking Committee]
The fa...
3 Approaches to Securing Identity in the Cloud
There's one big problem with the growing number of cloud-based applications and platform services, and it's growing faster than its prospective solutions: They typically handle authentication for their users by themselves. And when they do enable OAu...
Become Your Own Techmeme: Curating Big Data in the Cloud
Easily the largest contributors to ReadWriteWeb's overall traffic on any given day include technology news aggregation services, one of them being Techmeme. It's a service that pulls interesting headlines from amid the ever-flowing sea of content, an...
The Consumerization of IT, From a Wider Angle
Perhaps the greatest single problem afflicting information technology in the enterprise today (outside of this lousy global economy) is how employees using their choice of devices to access corporate network resources impacts security. Although last m...
Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0 with WebSocket?
Back in 2009, Google began an industry discussion about a prospective upgrade to HTTP protocol - the application that enables the Web over the Internet. The concept is called SPDY, and to date, conventional wisdom held that while some are skeptical of...
SlideShark Becomes a Turnkey Mobile Preso Viewer for New Box Platform
Earlier this year, my colleague David Strom shared with you the sudden rise of a mobile presentation tool called SlideShark. It was a fairly simple concept to begin with: Upload a PowerPoint presentation to Brainshark's servers, and then deploy that ...
Research: Exchange Private Cloud Cheaper Than Public Cloud for Enterprises
The typical wisdom around Microsoft's platform strategy during the past three years has been that the company is desperate to move its existing server software product customers to a cloud-based model in order to retain those customers amid growing com...
Comcast on Xbox: Does a CDN, by Nature, Threaten the Internet?
If you want proof that "the Internet" is not a single, contiguous nebulous of interconnected addresses, look no further than your home router. Long before there was a Web, the Internet's engineers devised the concept of subnets - a way for certain, re...
