In case you hadn’t heard yet, next week is going to be a busy one for gadget fiends — Amazon’s got something brewing on the 6th, while Nokia and Motorola will be duking it for eyeballs since both have launch events scheduled for the 5th. Rumor has it that both of them will also...
Mike Monterio is well known on the Internet for his sardonic and weird sense of humor. He is also known for being a designer (his firm Mule Design helped us out on NewTeeVee and GigaOM Pro) and as the author of the book “Design Is A Job.” He is a made-for-Internet personality. Just follow him...
Back in May, security company Bitdefender launched Clueful, an iPhone app that looked at the other apps on your phone and identified what they were doing with your data. However, according to Bitdefender, Apple removed the app from the App Store in late June without an explanation. Today, Clueful has relaunched … but not on...
Seattle startup RootMetrics is bringing its hybrid-crowdsourcing approach to mobile network testing over the Atlantic. The company plans to issue its first batch of reports on how UK carriers compare on mobile data speed and reliability in the next four to six weeks. RootMetrics uses a two-prong methodology to test networks. It does its...
YouTube/openCollabNet1 Jerry Chen, VMware See Also VMware’s Paul Maritz Just Turned The Company Over To New CEO Pat Gelsinger VMware Kills Off A Pricing Scheme Customers Hated Meet Chuck Dietrich: Marc Benioff’s Intern Is Now A Wealthy Entrepreneur VMware has a strange sort of problem: It’s been so successful in pushing its technological revolution...
It might be polite to include a “via” or “h/t” in your tweets that contain information gleaned from other users, but don’t think Twitter will provide that same courtesy to tweets that are delivered by its third-party developers. Twitter has now removed sourcing on individual tweets accessed on the web that used to indicate...
YouTube/TheAlexanderGroup Paul Mountford has left Cisco. See Also Cisco CEO John Chambers Chases Off Yet Another Heir To His Throne Ex-Cisco Exec: The Company Is Still Messed Up Cisco’s Newly Minted Chief Strategy Officer FINALLY Talks About Cisco’s Survival Paul Mountford, senior vice president for global enterprise, has left Cisco, according to reports. Mountford...
People don’t give technology enough credit as an art form — the specifics of infrastructure and hard science behind it ultimately overshadow its more inchoate creativity. But the clichéd trope of a socially awkward engineer coding in a hole somewhere is on its way out. Instagram is a mass product used to cover news...
Julie Bort/Business Insider Chuck Dietrich, CEO, SlideRocket See Also This 30-Year-Old Sold Two Start-Ups In Six Months And Made Millions Why RIM Bought Tungle and VMWare Bought SlideRocket Check Out Jive’s New App Store, The Competitor To Yammer And Salesforce Chuck Dietrich is the CEO of SlideRocket, one of a pair of unusual companies...
Before ebooks became common, handing out free copies of a new tome was expensive. Each had to be printed and shipped, often with a nice handwritten note from the publicist inside (I love those). These days, everyone can afford to share their book, as the marginal cost of distributing a book in digital form is zero....