Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. have just introduced the industry’s first sub-40 nanometer (nm) NAND memory device, unveiling a 34nm 32 gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell chip. This process technology was jointly developed by Intel and Micron and manufactured by the companies’ NAND flash joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT). It is the smallest [...]
May 31st, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedArchive for May, 2008
Walmart introduces online classifieds
Walmart, our friendly neighborhood everything store, has introduced online classifieds. The store is in collaboration with Oodle, a bay area company launched in 2005. The store front is almost exactly like oodle except for walmart’s color and branding. Oodle is a local classifieds company founded by ex eBay and Excite executives. The company supposedly recieves [...]
May 31st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP introduces 2-in-1 server
HP has introduced a first of a kind 2-in-1 server. The HP ProLiant BL2×220c server blade extends HP’s technology infrastructure portfolio aimed at “scale-out” computing and storage environments such as those used in cloud computing, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing deployments.
HP ProLiant BL2×220c server blade features include
Blade cage and 2 server blades that are identical [...]
May 30th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Conference attendee catches Michael Dell with UPMC!
Dell released the following pictures in their blog after a conference attendee at the D conference caught Michael Dell carrying a Dell UMPC. Dell declined to provide any more info. about the device but posted pictures for us to enjoy!
Pictures - Rumored to be the Dell-mini Inspirion
Several major vendors are putting their weight behind buiding [...]
May 30th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Google Earth now in a browser!
Google Earth announced availability of a Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within a web site. The plugin is driven by an extensive JavaScript API’s, which users can program to control the camera; create lines, markers, and polygons; import 3D models from the web and overlay them [...]
May 30th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedHome price declines continue says S&P for Q1 2008
According to the S&P Case-Schiller home price index, home prices continued their decline from 2007 into Q1 2008. The index is published monthly with a two month lag and on the last Tuesday of every month.
The decline in the Index – which covers all nine U.S. census divisions – reached well into double digits, recording [...]
SkyFire gets $13 million series B funding
SkyFire Labs Inc., makers of the SkyFire mobile browser, which allows users to experience the PC Web on their handsets, today announced $13 million in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading global venture capital firm.
This round of funding also includes previous investors Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. The company will use [...]
D Conference previews Windows 7 and multi-touch
In the D conference today, Microsoft gave a preview of upcoming technologies in Windows 7. Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green took the stage to conduct the demo. Windows 7 will include multi-touch capabilities with applications supporting multi-touch input for operations.
Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
Bill Gates also announced that this will be his last D conference with [...]
May 27th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Google app engine to announce sign-ups, pricing at Google I/O
Google fanatics and developers are getting ready for Google I/O - the company’s largest developer event of the year at Moscone center in San Francisco. The company is expected to announce the opening off the Google App Engine for everyone and also announce API’s to access the app engine infrastructure.
Google App Engine™ enables developers to [...]
Vodafone CEO steps down
Vodafone Group Plc today announces that, after five years in the role, Arun Sarin will be retiring as Chief Executive at the end of the Company’s AGM on 29th July 2008. He will be succeeded by Deputy Chief Executive Vittorio Colao.
Under Sarin, Vodafone expanded heavily into emerging markets including Romania, Czech Republic, Turkey, and most [...]
iPhone Earth from Earthscape
The Google Earth Blog reports about an iPhone earth application that a Colarado boulder company, Earthscape, is working on . The application uses the iPhone accelerometers to allow one to tilt and rotate the views by tilting the iPhone. The application is under development using the Apple iPhone SDK.
The company is also building a virtual [...]
May 26th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedVC deals steady in India, drop in China for Q1
According to a report from VentureWire, venture investments in two of the biggest emerging economies, China and India, have maintained a healthy pace. Deals in India held steady but dropped in China compared to a year ago.
Venture capital firms invested $98.9 million in 16 Indian companies in the first quarter. By sector, seven companies in [...]
Microsoft ends digitzation project for books, journals
Through a blog post announcement, Satya Nadella Senior Vice president search, portal and advertising for Microsoft today informed that Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and their sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.
Microsoft had [...]
Flock raises $15 million in series D financing
Flock Inc. , the maker of the Flock social browser, has raised $15 million in Series D funding led by Fidelity Ventures. Flock generates revenue from driving search traffic, the same model as Mozilla. Flock has a deal with Yahoo Inc. and some other companies.
The company has raised a total of about $28 million [...]
HP goes green on printing
Hewlett-Packard became another “Greenophile” company on Thursday, at least in its Imaging and Printing Group. With an enterprise printing assessment service and carbon calculator, launch of an HP inkjet printer made entirely from recycled materials and an environmentally sensitive policy governing paper manufacturing, HP would be leading the charge in reducing carbon footprint for [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedApple rules high end personal computer market
Even though Apple’s retail market share in personal computers is at 14 percent, it holds an impressive 66 percent of the market share for computers priced over $1000. This figure only reflects store sales for the first three months of 2008 and does not include online purchases. The study was published by NPD Group. [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedGoogle getting more out of the Web Search Pie
For the month of April, Google was the only major player whose market share of the web search queries grew. Eating more out of its competitors pie, Google search queries grew to 61.6 percent compared to 59.8 percentage for the month of April, according to search Internet monitoring research firm comScore.
Numbers for April:
Search Queries dropped [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Office Opening Up to ODF…
According to Reuters, Microsoft is planning to open up its Microsoft Office to Open Document Format (ODF) sometime in 2009. Once complete, Microsoft will allow ODF document to be opened, edited and saved back in Microsoft Office directly without needing any other download, once Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been applied.
“Microsoft is going to [...]
OLPC unveils XO-2, foldable and touchscreen only laptop!
At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop. OLPC is calling it the XOXO or the XO2. The new device is radically different from the first generation OLPC device - XO. About half the XO 1.0’s size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard [...]
May 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Oil peaks at $132, average gasoline prices inch higher
Light Crude futures hit $132 a barrel as the summer travel season begins in the US. According to data recorded for the EIA ( Energy Information Administration ), average price of gasoline for the week inched up further to $3.791 a gallon from last week’s average of $3.722. The average price at some of [...]
May 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Netflix and RokuLabs unveil Set Top box
Online DVD-rental company Netflix Inc. took a step into the home-entertainment market by unveiling a new set-top box that allows its subscribers to stream videos directly from the Netflix Web site to their televisions. Netflix has already been offering its customers “Instant Watching” which allows one to stream movies to a computer. This expands the [...]
May 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP’s Q2 profit up, margins rise due to non-US demand
HP Reported Second Quarter 2008 results today. Highlights from the quarter are as follows - net revenue up 11%, or $2.7 billion, from a year earlier to $28.3 billion , GAAP operating profit up 22% to $2.6 billion; $0.80 earnings per share, up from $0.65 a year earlier and non-GAAP operating profit up 22% to [...]
May 20th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Video Tagging company VeoTag raises $1.2 million
Video publishing service Veotag Inc. has received $1.2 million in funding from Small Ventures USA, a venture firm headed by Bill Perkins. Last year Veotag raised just over $1 million from Small Ventures USA and unnamed angel investors, said Scott Rhodes, co-founder and chief executive of Veotag. Bill Perkins has joined Veotag’s board.
Online video viewing [...]
Wetpaint raises $25 million, introduces social feature - Injected
Wiki company WetPaint announced that it has raised $25 million to accelerate its growth. The company also introduced a new feature - WetPaint Injected that allows publishers to wikify or rather “wetpaintify” their site.
Injected incorporates features common in social sites like inviting friends, embedded editing etc. The unique aspect of Injected is that it is [...]
Google opens content network to 3rd parties
In a press release today, search giant Google today announced that is it opening it’s content network to approved third parties. Google will now be able to accept advertising tags from third parties giving advertisers the choice of working with approved agencies. Publishers benefit from this with more ad inventory in Google’s content network relevant [...]
May 19th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
WiMax gets a start with Sprint and Samsung
Sprint and Samsung Electronics Corporation Ltd. announced on 05/15 that a new broadband wireless network offering the speed and mobility of WiMAX has met Sprint’s rigorous commercial acceptance criteria including overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay. This key technical milestone has been passed after extensive evaluation both in the XOHM™ lab environment and with [...]
May 18th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Yahoo says it is open to value maximizing transactions
Yahoo issued a statement in response to the announcement by Microsoft Corporation that it is continuing to review potential transactions with Yahoo!
Yahoo confirmed with Microsoft that it is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo! at this time. Yahoo! and its Board of Directors continue to consider a number [...]
WiiFit hits stores on Monday, combines fun and fitness
Nintendo is expected to launch WiiFit in stores in the United States on Monday, 05/19. The company is hoping to cash in further on its hit Wii console which combines simple games, low price and interractivity through it’s unique easy-to-learn motion-sensing controller. U.S. consumers bought 714,000 Wiis in April, nearly double the sales of Microsoft [...]
May 18th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedS&P 500 Q1 Earnings Down 25.9%
According to preliminary figures released today by Standard & Poor’s Index Services, first quarter 2008 operating earnings for the S&P 500 declined 25.9% over the first quarter of 2007, marking the third consecutive quarter the index has reported declining earnings — an event not seen since the fourth quarter of 2001.
With [...]
More Orange for the iPhone
In a short press release, Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange’s African markets later this year.
Apple has so far struck exclusive deals for the iPhone with AT&T Inc. in the United [...]
Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect
In a surprise move, Facebook decided to block Google’s Friend Connect service announced just a few days ago. Google’s Friend connect came on the heels of Facebook Connect announced on May 9, 2008. This is a major blow to Google’s Friend connect initiative that is attempting to provide an common social API to the [...]
May 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
5 days of Grand Theft Auto 4 kills the competition
XBOX 360 and PS3 sales are falling. Compared to 262,000 XBOX 360 and 257,000 PS3 units sold in March, numbers were 188,000 and 187,000 units respectively for the month of April. Both units were hoping release of Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA4) would help boost their sales and hamper Nintendo’s Wii’s march. GTA4, an eagerly [...]
May 15th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedVerizon picks LiMo over Android
Verizon Wireless picked the LiMo Foundation as its “preferred” operating system on Thursday. LiMo’s technology is based on the free open-source Linux operating system and is meant to be an open platform for the entire mobile industry to use. LiMo’s original backers included Motorola, NEC, Vodafone, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and NTT DoCoMo and [...]
May 15th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Amazon funds animoto
Animoto today announced that it has received an unspecified amount of funding from Amazon for its video production web application. The service, launched in August 2007, has had more than 160,000 registered users, about 7.5% of them signing up for premium services, the company said. Animoto Productions is based in New York City with an [...]
May 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Plaxo acquired by Comcast
Comcast Corp. said Wednesday that it will acquire Plaxo Inc., capping off a “redemption story” for backers of the early social networking site. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Plaxo, backed by more than $20 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Harbinger Venture Management, Cisco Systems Inc. and Ram Shiram, offers [...]
May 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
