But from where will the growth come?
Another question for Sun will revolve around how much open-source software will be required to move the hardware and services needle. MySQL, with more than 70 million downloads, is a good candidate to jump-start movement in hardware and services. Will it be enough?
The question for Sun will be one [...]
On the conference call, CEO Mike Klayko said the two companies share a vision for the future of next-generation data centers and networks and that there are plenty of synergies between them that Brocade will take advantage of.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Foundry is a 12-year-old company that does enterprise and service provider switching and routing. [...]
One of the “under the hood” improvements that Apple might be planning for
Mac OS X Snow Leopard might involve a crash diet for key Mac applications.
Roughly Drafted reports, in a long list of features expected to appear in Snow Leopard, that Apple is working on reducing the footprint required by many of its key applications, [...]
I really love using a Bluetooth mouse when I travel, and on the rare occasions when I need to tether my Palm Centro, I can do so without a cable. For 8 bucks shipped, there’s no cheaper (or less obtrusive) way to add Bluetooth to a notebook (or desktop, if that’s your thing).
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“The middle tier of finance–the private equity firms, which were pretty vital to clean tech have been decimated over the last couple of years,” he said. “The federal government has become the provider of last resort in that part of the food chain.”
“We need some inventiveness. Your country needs you to mount a historical effort [...]
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On Wednesday, the service announced that the Artist Royalty Program had gone live and that more than 450,000 tracks have been uploaded in conjunction with it.
It’s also an incentive for them to promote Last.fm as a promotional hub for their music, potentially eating into [...]
For full details, see the Yahoo Music API site or its developer guide
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Yahoo has released an API (application programming interface) that lets outside Web sites automatically extract information such as top 10 lists from the Yahoo Music site.
The API is an example of Yahoo Open Strategy, the company’s effort to open up its [...]
I still hold true to what I said about SlyDial in my initial hands-on. It’s a potentially evil service for people who misuse it (see the guy in the video embedded after the break), giving anyone the excuse that they “tried to call you” without having to approach actual conversation. That said, it can be [...]
An easy way of unlocking your iPhone 3G could hit the Internet relatively soon.
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An unlocked
iPhone 3G is a little closer to becoming reality, according to the iPhone Dev Team.
There hasn’t been as much demand for unlocked iPhone 3Gs, given the much greater distribution of that phone around the world. However, there are still some [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on record wondering how YouTube will make money for Google. I doubt that the elections video search gadget unveiled today is the immediate answer, but it offers an intriguingly possible answer.
Videos from YouTube’s Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget, you can search [...]
