The Xbox 360 held onto the top spot in May’s console sales charts, Seattle PI reports. After selling 270,000 Xboxes in May, the Microsoft console’s sales have grown 39% year over year. There are no signs of the console’s growth slowing down. The release of a revamped Xbox and the new Kinect in December only...
Daily Archives: June 13, 2011
RescueTime Launches Introductions, A Carfax Report For Top Job Candidates
Y Combinator-backed RescueTime is a web-based time management tool that lets users monitor the time they spend on the Web, like what applications and websites they’re visiting most frequently, all in an effort to help heavy web users cut down on inefficient uses of their time. (Maybe those three hours in Chrome Angry Birds...
Big data on micro servers? You bet.
SeaMicro’s SM10000-64 server. Online dating service eHarmony is using SeaMicro’s specialized Intel Atom-powered servers as the foundation of its Hadoop infrastructure, demonstrating that big data might be a killer app for low-powered micro servers. The general consensus is that specialized gear from startups such as SeaMicro and Calxeda — which can save money and...
Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less
Ever wished you had an easy way to tell the world (and potential future employers) just how great you are at using Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and.. err.. Facebook? Your chance is coming. Today a new company called Smarterer has raised $1.25 million from True Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from angels including Mark...
The Find My iPhone service has been ported to iCloud
Earlier today evidence was discovered that the Calendar portions of MobileMe had already begun being ported over to the iCloud domain and rebranded. We did some digging here after the news and discovered that the Find My iPhone service seems to have been ported over as well. The screenshot above is from the confirmation...
It looks like iCloud will have some web apps after all
In my article earlier today about iClouds chances for success I mentioned that it was likely that we would see some web components of iCloud eventually and that it was too early to gripe about their absence. Now a Macrumors reader has uncovered what seems to be a portion of Apple’s MobileMe architecture that...
VMware buys Digital Fuel to make cloudonomics easier
VMware bought Israeli startup Digital Fuel Monday in an attempt to give VMware customers better insights into how their IT investments measure up. Israeli newspaper Globes said VMware paid $85 million for Digital Fuel. The concept of “cloudonomics” is centered on the aspects that make cloud computing a more cost-effective delivery model, but might well...
Skype Is Coming To Your TV Through Comcast
Image: Flickr See Also: How Microsoft Could Get The Most Bang For Its Buck From Skype Microsoft’s Xbox Live TV Service Seems Pointless 2011: The Year Of Gigantic Tech Stocks Getting Destroyed Comcast will begin offering Skype video calling to customers next year. The two companies announced the deal this afternoon ahead of the...
HUGE PHOTOS: Check Out The New Nook Simple Touch E-Reader (BKS)
Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider Steve Kovach The Nook Simple Touch isn’t exactly a revolution in e-reading. (Sony has had touchscreen readers for awhile now.) But what Barnes Noble’s latest reader does do is raise the bar for its competitors with the features that matter: No more keyboard. Lightning fast page turns. Facebook and...
Instagram’s Growth Is Amazing: Here’s How It Can Make Money (AAPL)
Dan Frommer See Also: The Future Of Mobile Advertising: Less Annoying, More Useful Apple Starts To Wind Down The “iPod” Brand Instagram: 5 Million Users, 95 Million Photos, 4 Employees Instagram, the photo-sharing service for iPhones, just announced some very impressive growth numbers: The 8-month-old product has 5 million users and almost gets 1...