It’s not often we get to see a public company suddenly thrown into play for Apple and Google to buy, but it just happened with mobile tech company InterDigital. After a consortium led by Apple decided to spend $4.5 billion on Nortel’s patents, InterDigital decided to put itself on the block. Interest from Apple...
There has been a lot of talk about consolidation lately because federal agencies have until Oct. 7 to present their plans for slashing data center footprints. The Office of Management and Budget has mandated that by 2015, the government must reduce its current stable of roughly 2,094 data centers by 800, or 38 percent...
Microsoft and Nokia appear poised to unveil the fruits of their combined labors. Today, invitiations began to go out that announced a joint August 17th event that the two firms will host at GamesCon, in Cologne, Germany. The venue feels nontraditional for what sort of announcement we are expecting. Then again, surely the two companies...
Foursquare has been ticking off a lot of milestones lately. It has $50 million in funding, a $600 million valuation, 10 million users and 10,000 developers. And yet, there’s that little nagging thing called a revenue model; something it has been slow to figure out. It appears the location-based social network is now poised to...
Our latest member of the RWW family is Joe Brockmeier, who goes by the nom de Web of Zonker. He will be writing articles and assuming some of the community duties on the channel B2B side of things. Joe has been writing about technology, and particularly about Linux and open source, for 12 years,...
The Fourth Amendment states that people should be protected from unreasonable search and seizures. It is worth looking at the full text of the amendment to reiterate exactly what is being protected: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not...
Twitter has announced that it has closed a new, “significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors.” The company says that it will use the funds “to aggressively innovate, hire more great people and invest in international expansion.” Reports of a new...
After weeks of speculation, Twitter has just published a blog post confirming that it has indeed raised a “significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors.” Several reports over the last month preceded today’s official announcement. The New York Times reported in...
As Twitter looks to expand itself around the world, localized translations of the website are a must, and as Facebook has shown, crowdsourced voluntary translations are the most effective way doing this. Today Twitter has announced that its first crowdsourced translations, into Dutch and Indonesian, have gone live – the first fruit of the...
Apple has today released an update to its Apple TV 2G that brings with it the ability to stream all TV content already purchased through iTunes from iCloud, as well as support for the popular video sharing site Vimeo. The update brings the software version of the Apple TV 2G to iOS 4.3. Previously...