“Technology companies have long been the primary focus of venture capitalists,” VentureSource’s Director of Global Research Jessica Canning said in a statement. “But with a nonexistent IPO market and corporations paying less for venture-backed technologies, the incentive for investors to back new or unproven business models is just not there.”
The report isn’t quite [...]
Greg Sandoval is a former Washington Post staff writer.
Following the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Howell erred when she said that the lobbyist gave campaign donations to Democrats as well as Republicans. Abramoff gave only to Republicans. The paper’s Web site saw more than 1,000 comments, many from people who accused the Post of conspiring with [...]
For instance, while the U.S. stock market saw declines between September 1 and October 9, the volume of malware threats grew, doubling to more than 24,000 per day between September 8 and September 10 alone, and to more than 30,000 per day on September 16.
Apple’s fourth-quarter profit soared past expectations on extremely strong sales of [...]
But this may be one area in which Microsoft needs to think a bit more. As The Motley Fool notes,
Microsoft is a smart company, and has obviously thought about these issues. I still wonder if the company will find that its partners don’t like having to compete with their old friend.
Tech watchers will see lots [...]
Also, like Samsung, Intel sees SSDs playing a role in the server market as a “performance accelerator.” Winslow said that Intel recently did a video-on-demand demonstration where it streamed 4,000 videos simultaneously. Just to do the streaming (not to store the video), it took 62 15,000 RPM (very high-performance) hard drives, he said. “We were [...]
Overall, there’s little to fault in this announcement from a product perspective. It’s a solid, nondisruptive bump to a product line that–although Sun doesn’t break out numbers–must contribute a substantial chunk of its server revenue.
SPARC64 comes from Sun’s partner Fujitsu, which also designs and builds the midrange and high-end servers that use the chip; these [...]
Nintendo: Cloud? Isn’t that what Lakitu rides in Super Mario Bros.? Microsoft: Xbox 360 requires no cloud to overheat repeatedly and die Sony: Even if everyone got OnLive free, PS3 would still be the best-selling console Apple: you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
This week at GDC 09, we learned about OnLive, a new “cloud”-based [...]
There’s no shortage of people talking about cloud computing these days. But are they all talking about the same thing?
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“I would have thought I knew what the word ‘cloud computing’ meant,” he said, “until I sat with Anne and a bunch of venture capitalists this morning who used the word completely differently than [...]
Come on Mark, do you really want to be compared to Al Davis?
“Bloggers can be journalists,” he said. “Bloggers can have journalistic standards. However, not all do… The one thing I know for sure is that because someone is a blogger for a big company, doesn’t make him or her “better” or more qualified blogger.” [...]
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In the overall graphics market (desktops and notebooks), Intel held its first place position, claiming 42.7 percent, up from about 38.7 percent in the same period of the previous year, the market researcher said.
“The overall ‘double attach’ is about 35 percent,” said Jon Peddie. That puts a sizable dent in Intel’s market [...]
