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With the news of Steve Jobs’ passing, we can’t help but recall one of our fondest and most influential memories of Steve. Steve Jobs gave one of the best commencement speeches of all time at the Stanford graduation ceremony in 2005. It continues to be quoted, revered, and even plagiarized to this day....
We’re going to go into whatever the blog equivalent of a moment of silence is here, because many of us are still staring at our computers shocked by the sad news of Steve Jobs’ death. In lieu of keeping up with the tech news churn and/or returning to the hamster wheel of funding posts immediately,...
Was anyone else peeved to discover that the new iPhone 4S voice-command personal assistant app’s voice is a robotic-sounding lady named Siri? There should be an option for iPhone 4S users to choose a voice from whatever gender they prefer. But until that day, if we’re going to be stuck with only one voice,...
Sensing a crack in the dam from Microsoft on Windows 8, Adobe crafted a message for Flash developers this week about heterogeneity that had nothing at all to do with HTML5. Microsoft premiered its WinRT-based Metro, or “Metro-style,” apps model as a native platform using HTML5 that lets Windows “gracefully get out of the...
You know sometimes when you interact with a lot of startups, you start thinking that every problem that needs to be solved has already been solved. Well think again! First Round Capital VC Phineas Barnes and a gaggle of other New Yorkers like 77mass’Amanda Peyton, MessageParty’s Jason Gavris, former Zappos UX director Brian Kalma,...
The most talked about element of yesterday’s Apple event had to be Siri. The new feature of the iPhone 4S, born out of Apple’s purchase of the company by the same name in 2010, looks amazing. But one thing never mentioned during the keynote was a key piece of technology behind Siri: Nuance. We...
When the week is over, Oracle World will have been bracketed by two events. One: the unveiling of Oracle Exalytics, a beefy in-memory appliance dedicated to large-scale analytics, during Larry Ellison’s opening keynote. Two: the undressing of Oracle’s cloud computing initiatives by Marc Benioff, SalesForce’s CEO, and the unceremonious cancellation of his keynote this...
Jeff Hamilton, an artist who goes by the acronym “XVALA” — though no one is quite sure what it stands for — has been dumpster diving through the trash cans of Silicon Valley’s tech stars. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Google’s Larry Page as well as former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs have all had...
LinkedIn has finally started spending some of that cash it raised when it made its stock market debut earlier this year — but given the company’s $7.3 billion market cap, its first post-IPO acquisition is not quite as big as some might have expected. The company announced Wednesday it has acquired Connected, a small...