VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat. DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or mobile application noticed in an age of noise? It will be held in the afternoon of Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on [...]
Computerworld – Microsoft today issued 10 security updates that patched a record 31 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Excel, Word, Windows Search and other programs, including 18 bugs marked “critical.” Of the 10 bulletins, six patched some part of Windows, while three patched an Office application or component, and one fixed a flaw in [...]
by Edwin – on January 5th, 2011 Fujifilm will flow innovation with FinePix XP30, where this latest addition to the FinePix range GPS function with the company are touting it is outdoor sport among the first in the world for a compact camera. Ask about his performance, you? Well, the Fujifilm FinePix XP30 with a [...]
EMC is planning to launch a cloud computing service to compliment its Atmos on-demand storage service at the end of this month, according to a vendor working with the storage giant on the project. The computing cloud will be built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System gear, which makes sense given that EMC is a big [...]
Forget about smart phones and smart computers. Cheap and plentiful sensor chips are making possible everything from smart Band-Aids to smart bottles. NXP Semiconductors, a chip maker that spun out of Philips in 2006, showed off prototypes for these cool applications at its headquarters in San Jose, Calif., yesterday. Based on the working products and [...]
The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay [...]
Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within Sharepoint 2010 that will integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has been set for the marketplace lauch but it will evolve from “The Gallery” a feature that provides Sharepoint 2010 users access to templates. Sponsor In an interview we did at Enterprise 2.0, Christian [...]
SEOUL, South Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8” hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its 250 Gigabyte (GB) 1.8 inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint N3U which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. This optimized design results in a smaller foot print, less [...]
ABC certainly is taking its sweet time in releasing the first episode of “V,” a sci-fi television series that debuted earlier this week on the Web in any substantial way. The network is showing about nine minutes of the redo of the 1980s miniseries about a lizardy alien invasion disguised as a peace mission by [...]
Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner (TWX) online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto entrepreneurial talent, Conrad (pictured [...]