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No Kidding! Telx, a Data Center Operator, Files for a $100M IPO
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The Telx Group, an NYC-based data center operator, has filed for an initial public offering that could see it raise as much as $100 million from the public markets. With the demand for data centers and Internet services on an upswing, Telx’s IPO is very timely.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:25:05 +0000) |
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Brightkite’s GroupText Is a Text Messaging Party Line
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The lowly text message gains even more social networking and location-based group functionality courtesy of Brightkite's new GroupText feature. Up to 25 friends can participate in the conversation or use the service to plan an impromptu gathering without signing up for a BrightKite account.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:30:35 +0000) |
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Hacking the Car: Cyber Security Risks Hit the Road
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Crashed web sites, stolen credit card info — imagine seeing the damage caused by Internet viruses and worms unleashed on a fleet of vehicles. The results could include vehicle location data used with malicious intent, the prevention of a plug-in vehicle battery from recharging, remote starting
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:03:19 +0000) |
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Nuance Killing SpinVox’s D2C Service
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Nuance is pulling the plug on SpinVox's consumer service, which transcribes voice to text for UK users. The move is a logical one given Nuance's strategy of selling the offering to corporate customers, but SpinVox's users have taken to Twitter to voice their displeasure.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:30:24 +0000) |
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The iPad May Change Computing, Just Not Your Life
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In the iPad, Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product. But is there room for a third category of product that sits between your two most essential devices, the laptop and phone? I’m still not sure there is.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:33 +0000) |
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Geo-madness Now Playing on Your Dashboard
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Geo-madness has a new victim. BMW has launched a new feature that allows folks to share their location, travel routes and destinations with others right from the car. It will be offered as a part of BMW Assist, an add-on online information services.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:26 +0000) |
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iGroups: Apple’s Welcome to the Social
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An interesting patent of Apple’s relating to a social networking app surfaced recently. Dubbed iGroups, the app aims to solve the pitfalls of traditional social networks, like Facebook, that require users be a member before being able to participate. Instead, iGroups creates a virtual social network
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:19 +0000) |
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Who Will Pick Up Palm?
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With Palm living on borrowed time after posting yet another horrendous quarter and warning that results for the current fiscal period will also fall short of expectations, we take a look at some of the companies that might sweep in and pick up the beleaguered firm.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:31:23 +0000) |
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Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
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Thanks to World of Warcraft and social games on Facebook, gaming is becoming a bigger part of our culture than it has ever been. Web sites like Wikipedia and Slashdot use game-style principles to control behavior, and some see these principles moving into education and the workforce.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:18:00 +0000) |
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Gift Card Exchange Plastic Jungle Gets $7.4M
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Plastic Jungle, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that runs a gift card exchange, says it has raised $7.4 million in a round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from previous investors Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Bay Partners. The company raised $6 million in 2009.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:00:03 +0000) |
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Viacom: Google, YouTube Founders Willfully Ignored Infringement
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The release of court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube has opened a whole new can of worms. To grow, Viacom says that YouTube's founders and later executives at Google turned a blind eye to copyrighted material.
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:41:37 +0000) |
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Whatever Happened to Web 2.0?
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Google Trends says that search volume for "social media" surpassed "Web 2.0" right in the middle of January this year, though the new hotness has yet to reach the heights of "Web 2.0" hit circa 2007. But what key changes marked a change in eras?
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:06:39 +0000) |
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5 Reasons I’m Still Not Paying for a Music Subscription Service
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Music is moving into the cloud. Access is replacing ownership of albums and song files, online streams are replacing desktop playback and mobile access is renewing interest in on-demand music subscriptions. So how come I’m still not ready to pay for any of it?
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:00:04 +0000) |
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Apple: Our Screens Don’t Need No Protecting
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If you’re of the camp that believes your iPhone or iPod touch’s screen needs some kind of additional protective layer to prevent it from getting damaged, you may want to head to the Apple store soonish to stock up on said accessories. In the very near
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:02:49 +0000) |
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Formspring.me Raises $2.5M for Booming Site
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Formspring.me, the fascinatingly simple and popular personal Q&A site, has raised $2.5 million from an impressive list of angel investors: The site, which launched exactly 113 days ago, had 50 million unique visitors in the last 30 days and more than 300 million questions answered.
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:09:32 +0000) |
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Google Calendar Has a Smart Rescheduler — It’s Grrrrrrreat!
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Google has launched a new gadget (available in Google Calendar Labs) called Smart Rescheduler for its Google Calendar service. Once installed, if you want to reschedule a meeting, all you have to do is select an event and let Google find new time.
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:56:40 +0000) |
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Big Media or Big SEO Spammers?
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Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics. A liberally funded LA startup is only too quick to help them. The story starts with San Francisco-based sex writer Violet Blue.
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:30:20 +0000) |
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Rob Glaser Defines the Superphone and Predicts the Mobile Future
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Future media will be consumed on the go, said Rob Glaser, former CEO of RealNetworks, in a speech today. He also forecast that by 2013 the installed base of smart and superphones will exceed the installed base of PCs.
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:08:46 +0000) |
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Facebook Search Queries Jump 10% in February
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Facebook redesigned at the beginning of February, moving its search box from the right side to the top middle of its home page, and it seems to have paid off, with the company's U.S. search queries growing 10 percent in February, according to comScore.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:14 +0000) |
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Google, Facebook Sued Over Mobile Sign-up Patent
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A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google and Facebook for patent infringement. Wireless Ink, maker of Winksite, says it owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join social networks from their mobile phones through a patent awarded in October 2009.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:48 +0000) |
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Former FCC Chair Lays Out the Limits on the Agency’s Authority
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Big consumer issues such as the availability of internet apps on mobile devices and metered broadband are outside FCC authority said Kevin Martin, the former FCC chairman speaking today in Seattle. He also expressed doubt that adding spectrum alone would solve the mobile bandwidth crunch.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:30:23 +0000) |
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CA Continues Cloud-focused Buying Spree, Acquires Nimsoft
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CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance and availability monitoring software, in an all cash transaction valued at $350 million. According to CA, Nimsoft will help it better serve "emerging enterprises" (read smaller businesses) adopting cloud computing solutions.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:03:50 +0000) |
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Venture Capital’s Data Side Story
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From new data stores to large-scale databases to cloud-based storage services, it seems VC dollars these days are primarily flowing into two important (if somewhat unsexy) technology sectors: storage and big data. Here are some of the recent fundings that bring this trend into focus.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:08 +0000) |
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Why Apple Should Buy Adobe
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The rumors of Adobe being bought by Apple come up every so often. Apple could easily afford such a purchase and the results would be interesting. I would love to see Adobe restructured by a company like Apple. Adobe has many applications that are the gold
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:17:46 +0000) |
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Thing Labs Acquires Birdfeed, Wikirank to Add to Brizzly
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Thing Labs has acquired two "passion projects" from former Apple and Google developers to expand social web aggregator Brizzly. Birdfeed, a premium Twitter app, will become the free Brizzly for iPhone app; and Wikirank, a visualization for Wikipedia data from Small Batch, will help illustrate data.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:44:27 +0000) |
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The Power of MiFi in the Tablet Era
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Verizon is coaching sales staffers to encourage consumers to pick up Apple's iPad and connect it to its network via a MiFi. It's an expensive proposition for users, but it's a reminder that the MiFi will be a powerful tool as more tablets come to market.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:46 +0000) |
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Get Satisfaction Now Customer Support Tool for Brands Using Facebook, Google
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Get Satisfaction, which offers web-based community support tools, this week became the recipient of a couple of influential integrations. While not official endorsements per se, both Facebook and Google brought on the company to help their own customers offer social CRM.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:22 +0000) |
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The Disconnect Between Subscriber Growth & Revenues in Broadband and Mobile
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Providers of both fixed-line broadband and mobile services saw modest worldwide growth in 2009, according to new figures from TeleGeography, but revenues failed to keep pace. Plenty of opportunities still exist in emerging markets, but mobile carriers elsewhere must find better ways to monetize data services.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:07:31 +0000) |
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Hal Varian Is Right: Newspapers Need to Engage
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Google's chief economist Hal Varian told the Federal Trade Commission in a presentation on the future of journalism that newspapers have been in decline since before the Internet, and that one of the ways they can improve their web operations is to engage more with readers.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:41:30 +0000) |
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Google Maps Adds Biking Directions
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Did you know that Google Maps' most-requested feature addition is biking directions, in large part due to a vocal 50,000-signature-strong group of "Bike There" petitioners? The petitioners' wish is being granted tonight, with bike directions for 150 U.S. cities and 12,000 miles of trails going live.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:23 +0000) |
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Google Apps Makes Itself a Platform for Outside Apps
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Google Apps is moving closer to being an integrated corporate dashboard with the announcement tonight of Google Apps Marketplace at a developer event at its headquarters. The company will give vendors multiple hooks into its own products and take a 20 percent cut of revenue.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:29 +0000) |
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Video: Google & Its Grand Ambitions
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Without a doubt, Google has gigantic ambitions. We hear a lot about its various products but it's hard to contextualize those efforts. A new video from Australian news show, Hungry Beast, is a graphical representation of Google's grand ambitions. It's also lots of fun.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:15:31 +0000) |
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A Belated New Year’s Resolution: No Walled Gardens!
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The recent Comedy Central-Hulu announcement made me recall my New Year’s resolution, one that I wanted to share publicly, and encourage you to embrace as well. It is simple in its concept, but epic in scope: Give up Walled Gardens.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:43 +0000) |
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Is Cheap Wireless Broadband for Real This Time?
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The FCC said today that the National Broadband Plan may ask for spectrum to build a free or low-cost wireless broadband network for poor people. But can the FCC find billions to build out a network or handle the inevitable debate over filtering content?
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| (Published: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:44:50 +0000) |
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3 Leading Venture Capitalists to Judge Green:Net 2010 Launchpad
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Green:Net 2010 is the GigaOM Network’s conference where green and IT meet. And we've scored a trio of leading venture capitalists to judge the popular Launchpad competition, which features 10 hot startups with applications for leveraging IT against climate change.
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| (Published: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:43:05 +0000) |
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