 | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced) by Facebook to search through its inbox.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics, specifically dead-end web pages stuffed with outbound links and pay-per-click ads. A liberally funded LA startup is only too quick to help them. The story starts with San Francisco-based sex [...]
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Future media will be consumed on the go, said Rob Glaser, former CEO of RealNetworks, in a speech today. He also forecast that by 2013 the install base of smart and superphones will exceed the install base of PCs.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google and Facebook for patent infringement. Wireless Ink, maker of Winksite, says it owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join social networks from their mobile phones through a patent awarded in October 2009.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google and Facebook for patent infringement. Wireless Ink, maker of Winksite, says it owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join social networks from their mobile phones through a patent awarded in October 2009.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Big consumer issues such as the availability of internet apps on mobile devices and metered broadband are outside FCC authority said Kevin Martin, the former FCC chairman speaking today in Seattle. He also expressed doubt that adding spectrum alone would solve the mobile bandwidth crunch.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance and availability monitoring software, in an all cash transaction valued at $350 million. According to CA, Nimsoft will help it better serve "emerging enterprises" (read smaller businesses) adopting cloud computing solutions.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance and availability monitoring software, in an all cash transaction valued at $350 million. According to CA, Nimsoft will help it better serve "emerging enterprises" (read smaller businesses) adopting cloud computing solutions.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance and availability monitoring software, in an all cash transaction valued at $350 million. According to CA, Nimsoft will help it better serve "emerging enterprises" (read smaller businesses) adopting cloud computing solutions.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance and availability monitoring software, in an all cash transaction valued at $350 million. According to CA, Nimsoft will help it better serve "emerging enterprises" (read smaller businesses) adopting cloud computing solutions.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
From new data stores to large-scale databases to cloud-based storage services, it seems VC dollars these days are primarily flowing into two important (if somewhat unsexy) technology sectors: storage and big data. Here are some of the recent fundings that bring this trend into focus.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
The rumors of Adobe being bought by Apple come up every so often. Apple could easily afford such a purchase and the results would be interesting. I would love to see Adobe restructured by a company like Apple. Adobe has many applications that are the gold [...]
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Thing Labs has acquired two "passion projects" from former Apple and Google developers to expand social web aggregator Brizzly. Birdfeed, a premium Twitter app, will become the free Brizzly for iPhone app; and Wikirank, a visualization for Wikipedia data from Small Batch, will help illustrate data.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Get Satisfaction, which offers web-based community support tools, this week became the recipient of a couple of influential integrations. While not official endorsements per se, both Facebook and Google brought on the company to help their own customers offer social CRM.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Providers of both fixed-line broadband and mobile services saw modest worldwide growth in 2009, according to new figures from TeleGeography, but revenues failed to keep pace. Plenty of opportunities still exist in emerging markets, but mobile carriers elsewhere must find better ways to monetize data services.
Read more | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Providers of both fixed-line broadband and mobile services saw modest worldwide growth in 2009, according to new figures from TeleGeography, but revenues failed to keep pace. Plenty of opportunities still exist in emerging markets, but mobile carriers elsewhere must find better ways to monetize data services.
Read more | Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Google Apps is moving closer to being an integrated corporate dashboard with the announcement tonight of Google Apps Marketplace at a developer event at its headquarters. The company will give vendors multiple hooks into its own products and take a 20 percent cut of revenue.
Read more | Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
It goes without saying Google has gigantic ambitions. We hear a lot about its various products but it is hard to contextualize those efforts. A new video from Australian weekly news show Hungry Beast, is a graphical representation of Google’s grand ambitions. It is a lot [...]
Read more | Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
The Comedy Central-Hulu announcement last week made me recall my New Year’s resolution, one that I wanted to share publicly, and encourage you to embrace as well. It is simple in its concept, but epic in scope: Give up Walled Gardens.
Read more | Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
The FCC said today that the National Broadband Plan may ask for spectrum to build a free or low-cost wireless broadband network for poor people. But can the FCC find billions to build out a network or handle the inevitable debate over filtering content?
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