Daily Archives: August 23, 2011

HP Can’t Afford To Abandon Mobile Now

August 23, 2011

Toshiba recently rolled out its Thrive Android tablet. Lenovo has its IdeaPad K1 tablet, upcoming ThinkPad tablet, and a line of LePhone handsets in China that could someday invade the U.S. Sony has its Sony Ericsson mobile division and upcoming Sony S1 and S2 tablets. It almost goes without saying that Samsung is a...

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THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Gets A Boost In The Smartphone Market With GroupMe (MSFT)

August 23, 2011
THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Gets A Boost In The Smartphone Market With GroupMe (MSFT)

The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. Image: Brooke Hammerling via Instagram See Also: THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Could Skype Get To A Billion Users? THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Nokia’s Plan To Sell A Lot Of Windows Phones THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Here Comes The Microsoft App...

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Better Sales Tracking Using Google Apps and PipeJump

August 23, 2011
Better Sales Tracking Using Google Apps and PipeJump

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Future Simple’s PipeJump is attempting to pry its way into the crowded CRM...

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A Better Way to Manage a Bunch of PostgreSQL Servers

August 23, 2011

Peter Biddle, Intel, explains the recent announcements around MeeGo, pointing to the new MeeGo SDK now available and the specific focus on developing for tablet PCs. He talks about the sales opportunities for developers and refers to 15 store partnerships due to be announced soon. He references the work that has taken place that...

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Accel Boosts Social Enterprise Expertise, Adds Salesforce Chatter Creator As EIR

August 23, 2011
Accel Boosts Social Enterprise Expertise, Adds Salesforce Chatter Creator As EIR

After adding online payments exec Bill Ready as an Executive-In-Residence, Accel Partners is shoring up another area of expertise with the addition of former Salesforce.com executive Chuck Ganapathi as the firm’s newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence. At Accel, Ganapathi, who was the creator of Salesforce’s “Facebook for the Enterprise” Chatter, will focus on developing a company in...

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Cydia creator files lawsuit over Cydia.com domain name

August 23, 2011

Having unsuccessfully claimed the domain name from its original registrant, Jay Freeman (aka Saurik), creator of the third party application store for jailbroken iOS devices and owner of Saurikit LLC, has filed a lawsuit (PDF) to win access to Cydia.com, a website that is claimed to infringe upon the trademark of the same name....

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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, INTC)

August 23, 2011
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, INTC)

Image: fimoculous via Flickr Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Dead-simple blogging platform Tumblr is on a tear, and is talking about raising money at a $800 million valuation. iPhone news! The iPhone 5 will work on all networks with both GSM and CDMA chips… …and Apple is working on a cheaper...

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Like Top Gear? You can now watch it on Facebook.

August 23, 2011
Like Top Gear? You can now watch it on Facebook.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has announced details of a new video-on-demand (VOD) Top Gear Facebook application, which allows users to watch full-length episodes from within Facebook. The global broadcaster has teamed up with Softwind Studio, a London-based social media studio that specializes in creating interactive social apps, to launch the...

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Why Index believes Israel is about to have its moment

August 23, 2011
Why Index believes Israel is about to have its moment

By any stretch, Saul Klein is one of Europe’s most high profile venture capitalists. Index, the company where he’s a partner since 2007, has been one of the most active and successful investors around the continent over the past decade. It’s had big hits like Skype and MySQL, and remains very busy; for example,...

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Hey Amazon: Now You Know How To Beat Apple In The Tablet Space (AMZN, HPQ, AAPL, GOOG)

August 23, 2011
Hey Amazon: Now You Know How To Beat Apple In The Tablet Space (AMZN, HPQ, AAPL, GOOG)

Image: AP After HP (rightly) nuked webOS, HP’s TouchPad tablet suddenly started selling like hotcakes because they were heavily marked down to $100. And that shows how to compete with the iPad: price.  And who wants to be a tablet player and is very good at competing on price? Amazon. Clearly, no one is...

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