There are many pain points in the conference business, the least of which is a faulty wifi connection. And if you’re not there, you miss out on all of the valuable presentations, the product demonstrations and the unique moments created by the conference organizer. Once it’s gone, it’s as though the event vanished completely....
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. Google did not make developers happy with its pricing changes to Google App...
We’re just weeks away from the iPhone 5 being announced, a phone that will have a ‘fairly different design’, according to a source speaking to The New York Times‘ Nick Bilton. Another source, also an unnamed Apple employee and has given the publication a few more details about the upcoming device. For one, the design...
A lawsuit has been filed against HP by shareholders that are convinced that the company misled them about its direction before it dropped its webOS and consumer PC hardware business, reports Reuters. One of the participants, shareholder Richard Gammel, is accusing HP of hiding the fact that its existing business in webOS hardware and...
But Hulu actually built a lot of interesting back-end technology to deliver video over the Web, and this person claims that DirecTV’s sellers are including this in their asking price. Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don’t need that technology. But it could be very valuable to a TV provider — particularly since Dish is planning...
Research in Motion struggled through a tough transitional quarter — with revenue, profits and shipments down as it waited for a new generation of handsets to kickstart sales. The smartphone maker reported second quarter fiscal 2012 revenue of $4.2 billion, which was down 15 percent from the previous quarter, and down 10 percent from the...
Today is Mike Arrington’s last day as an employee of TechCrunch and AOL. Last night he announced he’d be starting his own blog, and today he told the Wall Street Journal that it would be written without help from staffers, and would focus on startups and journalism — more or less the same things...
I’ve liked Windows Phone Mango since I first laid eyes on it, but the truth of the matter is that most of the features being implemented are merely catching up to competing platforms. The Bing integration and voice-to-text capabilities are… pretty cool. But other than that, as I said, Mango is playing catch-up. The...
So what’s Mike Arrington going to do now that he is no longer working with TechCrunch or AOL? Start a new blog, of course. He just announced it on Twitter. He’s calling it a “personal” blog. A couple minutes later, he tweeted “network effects will beat IP every time,” which could be read as...
Note: this phone just has the stock apps, so we’d be suffocating with it! Image: Photo illustration by Business Insider, base image from Flickr/PNASH We have 70 different applications on our iPhone, not including the stock apps that Apple includes with the phone. Of the apps we’ve downloaded, you could take away 60 and...