Amidst the hagiography and hand-wringing about Apple’s future that followed Steve Jobs’s death, a short piece called “Against Nostalgia” appeared in The New York Times. It was written by author and monologuist Mike Daisey, whose one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” opened on October 11 at [...]
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By offering fast ananlysis of large amount of data, ScaleOut Software has won clients in such disparate uses as finance, online dating and home shopping. read »
Bubble? What bubble? One of Europe's leading venture capital funds is so confident about the opportunities in Europe's technology firms that it's just armed itself with a new growth fund worth 500 million euros ($700 million). read »
The number of surveys these days about social media are doing my head in. Every 24 hours, there’s yet another one released – usually courtesy of some very self-interested party. And always with the same core message: that social media will just keep on growing and growing. read »
How much does cloud computing really cost? Anyone know yet? Last week, I mentioned some estimates which suggest that companies can save up to 30% in IT costs over a three-year period employing cloud resources versus on-premises equipment. A relatively small operation with two application servers and two database servers could expect to pay about $106,000 over a three-year period, versus $149,000 for internal IT. read »
There has been a fair bit of debate as to whether agencies should get into the VC business. On the one hand, investing in companies that we think are shaping the future of technology and advertising offers a first-mover advantage to both the agency and its clients. Other schools of thought suggest that agencies simply do not know enough in this area to make the best bets. So I sat down with kbs+ Ventures' president and Chief Digital Media Officer, Darren Herman, to get his view. kbs+ Ventures[...] read »
Scientific American reports how the Collaborative Chronic Care Network, or C3N, a portal developed by an MIT graduate student, is engaging teenage Crohn's disease patients in "mini clinical trials." More than 30 US healthcare institutions are already part of the network, which SciAm says could "grow to include other conditions such [...] read »
GE's healthymagination project is setting the pace for cancer care as well as defining what it means to be a social business. Back in September GE announced it would spend $1billion on cancer-related R&D over the next five years. The $100 million healthymagination challenge is a part of that - essentially a crowdsourcing platform to generate new ideas from screening to diagnoses to treatment and care for breast cancer read »
Since Google revealed in January of 2010 that its systems had been penetrated by China-based hackers, the phenomenon of Chinese cyberspying has been an open secret, widely discussed by the cybersecurity community but rarely mentioned by U.S. government officials for fear of diplomatic repercussions. read »
Speculation has already run wild about a revolutionary next generation Apple TV. But what about Apple rival Amazon -- could they be planning their own branded television experience? read »
QlikTech software helps police in Sweden and fishermen in Peru.
