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News to know for Tuesday, April 8, 2008
"News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines. Notable headlines: Toni Bowers: March marks third consecutive month of job losses Bill Detwiler: Virtual worlds invade the average business meeting...
Tags: TechCrunch, Jason O'Grady, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Notebooks, Web Services, Operating Systems, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-04-08
EMC acquires online backup company Mozy
I just came across the breaking news from TechCrunch that online storage company Mozy has been acquired by juggernaut EMC Corporation for a whooping $76 million. In case you do not already know, Mozy offers MozyHome, which does no-fuss, automatic online backup for both Windows and Mac...
Tags: TechCrunch, Data, EMC Corp., Mozy, MozyHome, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-09-24
Yahoo acquires Zimbra for $350 million
It appears that TechCrunch has it on very solid grounds that Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source office suite Zimbra. The price of $350 million, all of it in cash, is confirmed. Excerpt from TechCrunch: The company has raised $30.5 million over three...
Tags: TechCrunch, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, E-mail Providers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, E-mail, Internet, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-09-17
Smash - Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch Mashup (widget)
Smash is a mashup of the popular Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch Technology News sites. Smash aggregates these three RSS feeds into one and pushes their content to your desktop via the Yahoo Widget Engine. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: TechCrunch, Digg, Mashup, Slashdot, RSS, Internet
Software downloads 2007-06-22

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Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs schmooze, talk about recruiting
In this video from standoutjobs.com, some Silicon Valley business folks are at July's TechCrunch 9 party talking about the trials and tribulations of hiring talent for their companies. Interesting is the story of how one company, via a frat-style outing, was able to coax an MIT student away from his...
Tags: Silicon Valley, Recruiting, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2007-08-07
Have you ever heard about Economic Network?
Hi all,I've accidentally apply aglogo (www.agloco.com/r/BBBS8256).It's said something regarding to Economic Network.Have you ever heard about it?Will it work?Is it spam?TechRepublic, It would be good if you can also provide data.Thanks,looks like garbage pyramind scam no-revenue model pre-2000 bust companygoogle for agloco,you get:http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/20/web-10-undead-rise-agloco/
Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, schleng@..., network
Discussion threads 2007-03-13
Zoho Writer offers offline feature
Zoho Writer now lets users take their documents offline and later synchronize the changes when they're back online. An excerpt from Wired: Following up on its initially limited functionality, Zoho Writer now offers full offline read/write editing abilities, giving you the full suite of Zoho Writer...
Tags: Google Gears, Productivity, Web Browsers, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-26
Rumors of a Google Wiki?
Last year, Google acquired JotSpot, the easy wiki service. At the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference at San Francisco, there are expectations of the announcement of the wiki tool as a new service in Google Apps. New services in Google Apps? ...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Corp., Wiki, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-09-04
Amazon's database in the cloud service
Amazon will unveil its database in the cloud service SimpleDB that lets customers manipulate and query data. An excerpt from News.com: "Amazon SimpleDB provides quick, efficient storage and retrieval of your data to support high performance Web applications," the company said on its SimpleDB Web site....
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-16
Google close to gobbling phone call management firm GrandCentral
For $50 million, the GrandCentral deal (Forbes.com) does not immediately seem an extension to Google's mainstay search engine. The firm provides virtual calling service to its users with the option of using a single virtual number, which can be used to route calls to any or all of the user's...
Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-06-26
Yahoo! to 'Kickstart' job oriented social network
Yahoo! appears to be focusing on a social networking approach to link prospective candidates to employers. In an online venture titled Kickstart, users get to maintain online profiles more like online resumes and can link to groups representing prospective employers. A quote from...
Tags: Job, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-08-31
Movable Type goes open source
Six Apart has finally transitioned its Movable Type blogging software to an open-source license, or GPL version 2 to be exact. This is probably due in part to pressure from the success of Wordpress, its increasingly popular open-source rival. Indeed, Wordpress is now used on many...
Tags: Six Apart Ltd., Movable Type, Open Source, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-12-12
One more week to sign up for Amazon's $100,000 Web challenge
If you have a great idea for building a start-up around Amazon's Web Services, you have just another week to sign up for the the Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge. Based on the submission, the Amazon judges' panel will review and select five finalists based on "originality...
Tags: Web, Amazon.com Inc., Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-10-19
Australian government walks the line on Internet censorship
The Australian government is all set to pull the plug on inappropriate content with its Internet censorship program. An excerpt from BBC: The Australian government's aim is to ensure that children only have access to family-friendly Web sites. Service providers will be expected to stop the...
Tags: Government, Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-02
OLPC ex-CTO plans $75 laptop
Mary Lou Jepsen left the OLPC project to start Pixel Qi, and she aims to bring to reality a sub-$100 laptop. An excerpt from TechCrunch: Jepsen explains her low-power, low-cost, green approach to computer design here and states that one of Pixel Qi's goals is the...
Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-11
MySpace President Tom Anderson models deceit
I'm currently not a member of MySpace, but once upon a time I checked it out because my best friend had a MySpace page with lots of pictures. Unfortunately, I couldn't view her photos without first signing up for a free membership and pinging her for permission. ...
Tags: MySpace, Tom, News Story, Web 2.0, Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Sonja Thompson
Blog posts 2007-10-23
Social networking milieu
Rumors are rife that Yahoo is working on creating a new social networking site called "Mosh" (two sources- - TechCrunch and Pronetadvertising report). If the news is true indeed, then this could be yet another attempt by Yahoo to gain a share in the social networking pie (its Yahoo 360°...
Tags: Network, Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-07-09
From del.icio.us to delicious -- the great upgrade
Del.icio.us, the Yahoo-owned social-bookmarking site, is undergoing a total makeover, from dropping the "dots" to implementing a complete new code base. Delicious also has a roster of new features. A preview of Delicious is available here, but only invited members can login. ...
Tags: Bookmark, Del.icio.us, Social Bookmarking, Feature, SearchEngineJournal, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Networking, Internet, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-09-07
Microsoft walks away from its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo
Microsoft has decided to walk away from its $44.6 billion acquisition bid for Yahoo. Negotiations broke down and the Redmond, Washington software giant decided that a hostile takeover -- and a subsequent nightmare integration of the two companies -- would not be worth the potential value of integrating Yahoo's...
Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Asset Management, E-mail, Free Trade, Corporate Law, Leadership, Investment, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Online Communications, Management, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-05-03
BitTorrent plugin for Mozilla Firefox
The UK/Prague-based open-source firm AllPeers has developed a BitTorrent plugin for Mozilla Firefox that lets users search and share files through torrents in a process as simple as downloading a file via the browser. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol that...
Tags: Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, BitTorrent, P2P, Mozilla Corp., Plug-in, Peer To Peer (P2P), Web Browsers, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-09-15
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