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HP to Cut 275 in webOS Division as Part of Refocus on Software
Looks like IBM isn’t the only large tech company firing people today. Word is emerging of more cuts at Hewlett-Packard’s webOS division. I’m told 275 people in that group lost their jobs today, most of...
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Seven Questions for Nathaniel Borenstein, Who Made Email Attachments Easy
The Internet isn’t known for looking backward at its history all that often, and yet once in a while it’s worth a look back to appreciate why things we do every day work the way they do. March 11 is...
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Hoping Others Will Drink the Kool-Aid, Yahoo Offers Its Mojito for Free
Yahoo said on Monday that it is releasing an open-source tool called Mojito that aims to give mobile developers some of the tools they need to create better Web apps for mobile devices. Although Yahoo...
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Mortar Data, Hadoop for the Rest of Us, Gets Seed Funding
Big Data, the buzzword of the moment that’s intended to convey the notion that there is useful knowledge lying untapped in mountains of otherwise workaday information, is something that big companies...
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Sonatype, Manager of Grown-Up Open-Source Software, Lands $25 Million from NEA
I’m no expert on how software gets made, but over the years I’ve learned that, more often than not, rather than write brand-new code, it’s more efficient for developers to assemble an application from...
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Meteor Open Source Project Gets $11.2M Led by Andreessen Horowitz
App developers are eagerly anticipating Meteor, an open source framework that promises to help them quickly build rich and responsive applications using JavaScript. Now, Meteor Development Group, the...
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Can You Guess the Super-Short Domain Name HP Just Registered for Gram?
Yesterday we learned about the creation of Gram, the new brand name for the Hewlett-Packard subsidiary formerly known as Palm. The plan is to build a brand and a business around the open source...
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Whitman Says HP Has to Do a Smartphone Again (Video)
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman says it’s only a matter of time before the company returns to the smartphone business it all but abandoned 13 months ago. In an interview that aired on Fox Business News...
View ArticleTwitter Open-Sources Mobile Testing Software Clutch.io
Attention, mobile wonks: Twitter is making it easier for you to test your homegrown iOS apps. The company announced Thursday that it will open-source Clutch.io, the recently acquired code library that...
View ArticleYelp to Add Health Inspection Data to Restaurant Listings in San Francisco,...
In a partnership with the San Francisco mayor’s office, Yelp will soon include health score information to restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The move...
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10gen Promotes Schireson to CEO Slot
10gen, the company behind the open-source MongoDB database software, said today that it has promoted its president Max Schireson to CEO. Former CEO Dwight Merriman will become Chairman. Schireson...
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IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud
The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM. Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an...
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Series Seed, an Open Source Set of Investment Documents, Moves to GitHub
If you’re involved in building software, there’s a pretty good chance you use GitHub, the social repository for software code known for the surprise round of funding it took from Andreessen Horowitz...
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Spanish Linux Group Files EC Complaint Over Windows 8 Secure Boot
Microsoft’s European antitrust woes continue to be something of a neverending story for the company. Earlier this month the European Commission slapped Redmond with $732 million in sanctions for its...
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Understanding the New Boom in Subscriptions
More than a century before Netflix and Hulu and Spotify first charged subscribers to satisfy their daily media cravings, another device existed called the Théâtrophone.1 From 1881 to 1932, telephonic...
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Jon Rubinstein Joins Board of Qualcomm, as Mobile Chipmaker Ups Its Silicon...
According to sources close to the situation, well-known tech exec Jon Rubinstein will be joining the board of Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chipmaker that has gotten a big boost of late for its role...
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Worst Sequel Ever: SCO vs. IBM Reopened
“For the last several months, we have consistently stated and maintained that our System V code is in Linux. The claims SCO has are both broad and deep. These claims touch not just IBM but other...
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Advertising's Reverse Big Bang
These are exciting times for advertising, as new technology and new forms of media are bringing advertisers new ways to reach audiences, with far better targeting and measurement than ever before. It’s...
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"WordPress for Crowdfunding," Crowdhoster Makes Payments a Form of Communication
“Crowdfunding is too powerful to be for gadgets and celebrities raising money for passion projects,” said James Beshara, CEO of the social crowdfunding company Crowdtilt. Crowdtilt’s next product,...
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Your iTunes Collection, Displayed as a Solar System
Most museum artifacts require careful transportation, temperature-controlled storage or secure glass cases. Not this one. The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City has...
View ArticleIBM Again Pledges $1 Billion to a Linux Effort
Linux continues to dominate data centers. IBM wants more of that action to take place on its hardware. The computer giant on Tuesday plans to pledge that it will spend $1 billion over four or five...
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Interoperability and Openness: Why an Open Cloud Is the Only Cloud for the...
Image copyright Ivo PregeljEnterprise attitudes toward the cloud are changing; there is no doubt about that. Taking a look at Gartner’s recent cloud projections for the current $130bn industry, the...
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With Steam Machines on the Horizon, Valve Makes Its Linux Love Official
Linux mascot Tux the penguin with a cake bearing the logo of Valve’s games store, Steam.“Gabe Newell is the Steve Jobs of the gaming industry.” That’s Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin,...
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Dell and Red Hat Will Announce a Big Cloud-Computing Alliance Today
Dell, the newly private computing company, will later today announce an alliance with the software company Red Hat that will become a significant piece of its cloud-computing strategy going forward. In...
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Cyanogen Raises Another $23 Million From Tencent and Andreessen Horowitz to...
Cyanogen, which offers a more open version of the Android operating system, said Thursday that it had scored a further $23 million from Andreessen Horowitz, China’s Tencent and existing investors...
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