SAN DIEGO–Why carry a computer laden down with data and applications with you everywhere when you could access all that information from any browser?

Already, the company, whose name is also their URL, has a browser-based version that allows anyone to access all this data from anywhere. The idea is that by doing it this way [...]

Twitter adds to the overflow of information, but if you find the right people to follow, or lead, it does offer a good ROI for the time spent consuming 140 characters at a time.
It’s not exactly a measure of influence (more an indicator of overall reach), but it can be a huge number. In Winer’s [...]

Unfortunately there is no clear answer. It all depends on the VMs you are using (assuming you are using VMs at all) and if there is another cloud option. Otherwise you may have to go internal. For example, if you use Google App Engine, there are other Python hosts available but they probably don’t [...]

The action also seeks to terminate Intel’s license to Nvidia’s patent portfolio.
In a research note Friday Doug Freedman of Broadpoint AmTech said: “We are not surprised by NVDA’s (Nvidia’s) counter-suit against INTC (Intel) over chipset licensing of Nehalem’s front side bus (FSB). We believe Intel’s intent is not to prevent NVDA from using Nehalem FSB, [...]

The contestants had 10 minute breaks every hour, but otherwise were in their seats listening to detailed talks about the company, its products, and the industry.
“We’ve submitted them to pain,” Andrew Bird, a Configuresoft vice president, who served as MC at the end of contest, said mischievously. “We played recorded Webinars at [...]

…(S)ooner or later, an open-source business is going to act more like a business and less like a citizen of the FOSS community (although the wise ones will try to stay on good terms with the community in a sort of specialized marketing effort). Often, the laws that restrict the behavior of companies, especially ones [...]

The relatively sparse turnout reflects that change in perception. Some parts of the floor at San Francisco’s cavernous Moscone convention center were so thinly populated that you could have run a pickup game of Frisbee football without risk of smacking into bystanders. Ubuntu’s booth was the big exception to that generalization–and it was packing [...]