Oracle’s Itanium Document Drop Catches HP With Its Pants Down
HP's Itanium debacle provides plenty of lessons for anyone who is willing to pay attention. For the past decade, HP has been making a valiant, if extremely misguided, attempt...
The Most Sought-After Silicon Valley Startups for Engineers
On LinkedIn's blog today is a post about the top 10 most sought-after engineering startups in Silicon Valley. And no, Facebook and Google didn't make the cut because this was a list of companies with fewer than 500 employees. (Pinterest was number 6.)...
Big data is expensive: Palantir raises another $56M
Looks like it pays to be in big data. Data analysis company Palantir has raised $56 million in its latest round of funding, through two unknown investors, according to an SEC filing today.
Palantir has been seemingly very successful, offering …
Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible
Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but they're not great tools for making decisions. The team behind Loomio wants to solve that with a new Web-based tool...
How to Share Your Business Photos Online – Discreetly
You have just returned from a corporate retreat or some other business event that was well-documented with several amateur photographers. Now you want to share all of these...
Google Prices its Cloud SQL Offering, Solidifies Cloud Database Market
The cloud database market continues to solidify as Google puts a price tag on its Cloud SQL offering. With actual charges to begin on June 12th, the move...
Why Is Microsoft Trying to Hobble Firefox on Windows 8 Tablets – and Why Does It Matter?
As Windows 8 approaches, Mozilla developers have been working hard on a Metro version. If you're using Windows 8 on the desktop, no problem. Tablet users, however, are...
Improvements in New York Times’ Fech Makes It Easier to Follow the Money
Having data available electronically is not the same thing as the data being useful. Campaign finance disclosures provided electronically by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), are a good...
Oracle / Google Verdict Suggests Open-ness Must Be Licensed
The central issue in Oracle's Java copyright/patent case against Google, which has been lost after a million-and-one interpretations of the case over the last two years, remains this:...
What "Data Gravity" Means to Your Data
If you've wondered why so many companies are eager to control data storage, the answer can be summed up in a simple term: data gravity. Ultimately, where data...
6 Startup Lessons From the Complexity of Cell Phones
Back when we first started using PCs, we all wished that they would become as easy to use as a telephone. Well, we got our wish, not because...
CISPA: What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) makes some very important people mad as hell, while other companies we trust with our personal info every day are cheering...
