Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Cisco Wednesday filed suit in the European Union’s second-highest court, the General Court in Luxembourg, challenging the European Commission’s rubber stamp last October of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype.
Cisco says it isn’t opposed to the merger, but figures the EC sh...
Nimble, the social CRM platform has announced the launch of Nimble 2.0, billed as the “most social” CRM platform on the market today. Nimble was designed entirely with social CRM in mind and is the first social business platform that empowers companies with the ability to get closer to...
EquaShip, the ambitious start-up that wants to be the fourth US parcel carrier after UPS, FedEx and the USPS, has suspended its weeks-old service to regroup after it couldn’t get packages where they were going in a few days time.
CEO Ron Wiener said it could take a year to fix the pr...
WikiLeaker Julian Assange could be on a plane headed for a jail cell in Sweden in a couple weeks if his two-day appeal to Great Britain’s Supreme Court this week fails.
Assange claims the arrest warrant issued by Sweden’s public prosecutor instead of a judge has no weight and his law...
Facebook put in its papers to IPO after the market closed Wednesday, as expected. The S1 runs 200 pages. The S1 runs 200 pages.
It’s supposedly looking to raise $5 billion, not the $10 billion expected,
although that could change back to $10 billion by the end of this exercise.
Wh...
Intel has named Brian Krzanich COO, the job CEO Paul Otellini got three years before being named chief executive.
Otellini’s got to retire in four years when he turns 65 so Krzanich, 51, is being perceived as Otellini’s new heir apparent, replacing Sean Maloney, who had a stroke tw...
In a move reminiscent of Raja Rajaratnam and his Galleon Group hedge fund, the FBI has arrested seven seemingly respectable Wall Street players that the US Attorney then charged with trafficking in insider information about Dell and Nvidia.
They allegedly realized $61.8 million shorti...
Fabric Engine, a software engineering company focused on bringing multi-threaded, compiled performance to web applications, has announced that its Fabric Engine server technology now supports Node.js, boosting its computational performance more than 25X. Fabric Engine has published the...
Four months after canning Carol Bartz, its last CEO, Yahoo Wednesday morning named PayPal president Scott Thompson its fourth CEO in under five years. He starts January 9.
Acting CEO Tim Morse will go back to being CFO.
According to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, Thompson is expected ...
Two forensic investigators testifying for the US government told an Article 32 military hearing Monday that they had found evidence linking accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Aussie who published the trove of sensitive classified dipl...
Expecting high growth, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), the investment fund he largely owns, have put $300 million in Twitter.
A canny investor, the insanely rich prince, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, bought into Apple when it was down on its luck...
In the next two weeks Amazon said Monday that it’s going to update the software in its $199 Kindle Fire over-the-air to address buyer complaints about the performance of the vaunted seven-inch Android tablet.
It’s supposed to make the balky touchscreen easier to navigate and let user...
TreeHouse Interactive, a provider of on-demand marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions, on Thursday announced its partnership with integrated content marketing firm Ventana New Media. The partnership combines content marketing syndication capabilities o...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is going to get his crack at Britain’s very highest court in an attempt to prevent being extradited to Sweden for questioning related to charges of alleged rape made by two female WikiLeaks volunteers last year.
Whether the UK’s Supreme Court will hea...
Facebook is thinking of going public in the spring and raising $10 billion – a record amount for a high-tech or Internet IPO or pretty much any other IPO – on an estimated valuation of more than $100 billion, according to both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal’s anonymous sources. ...
SmartBear Software has announced that AlertSite, the company’s Web and mobile performance monitoring solution, will support testing on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Organizations can now test, monitor and improve how their website is performing across both browse...
Adobe said Tuesday that it’s going to restructure and let 750 people in North America and Europe go, 7% of its workforce, to focus on products that create digital content on multiple devices and platforms and digital marketing.
In other words, its newfangled Creative Cloud, due out...
Yahoo is reportedly proving itself the stickiest of creatures.
After putting itself on the block, it now supposedly doesn’t want to get bought – again – like some nasty reprise of the Microsoft fiasco.
Instead it maybe wants to sell its Asian assets – its positions in Alibaba and Y...
I visited F5′s International Technology Center in the heart of London and want to share an amazing tour with Shareef Qureshi, F5 Product Management Engineer. The facility includes a state of the art lab facility, executive briefing center, workroom facilities and an immersive Tel...
Facebook Thursday set up a non-profit foundation to run its six-month-old Open Compute Project (OCP) aimed at defining the cheapest and most efficient massively web-scale infrastructure possible using the open source model.
Its first OCP data center in Prineville, Oregon, managed a 3...
Facebook is going to build its first data center outside the United States on the edge of the Arctic Circle in the Swedish town of Lulea, a thousand miles north of Stockholm.
The site, where the temperatures are among the coldest in Europe, will let Facebook harness the elements to a...
WikiLeaks may go out of business by the end of the year.
It needs $3.5 million over the next 12 months to keep the lights on and says it can’t get it from its supporters because of the “financial blockade” mounted by Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union, which h...
Google may try to bankroll a takeover of Yahoo same as Microsoft, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal this weekend. The deal would take upwards of $20 billion.
The Justice Department stopped Google from doing an ad deal with Yahoo in 2008 by threatening to sue for antit...
Apple has gotten the temporary injunction it was seeking to block Samsung from selling its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, according to reports out of the Sydney courtroom where its infringement motion was heard.
Samsung’s lawyers previously complained that the thing woul...
Alibaba is interested in buying Yahoo, which owns 43% of the big closely held Chinese Internet house.
Alibaba chairman Jack Ma, who plans to spend the next year in the states, was refreshingly blunt about his interest last Friday at a China 2.0 event at Stanford University where he...
Yahoo president and CEO Carol Bartz was fired Tuesday – over the phone by chairman Roy Bostock by her own brief e-mail account– after 32 months on the job.
She has been replaced for the moment by CFO Tim Morse.
Tech blogger Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, who has followed Yahoo like a ...
Far too many key people at software companies don’t have a clue about their customers. It’s a Software Worst Practice. It's closely related to another serious Software Sin: no clue of who the "target customer" is.
In my conversations with software companies over the last six months, ...
First of all, let me explode one common misconception. Product positioning is not something you do once the product is built.
Product positioning isn’t meant to be kept a secret, nicely isolated from product development, sales and the rest of the company. It’s not static either.
Th...
Billionaire hedge fund trader Raj Rajaratnam, 54, convicted of making millions on insider trades, lost a bid Tuesday to have his 14-count conviction for securities fraud and conspiracy overturned.
His lawyers claimed the evidence presented at trial was insufficient for a conviction...
Sick software is easy to identify if you're objective. Sick software damages the companies that produce it as well as those who purchase the software.
Typically in such chaotic product management methodologies, proper design, architecture, usability, testing and quality assurance e...
Every marketer strives to be sales-driven. However, that doesn’t mean that you should embrace a product management discipline that includes changing the product every time a new sales opportunity surfaces.
I’ve kept this tattered Dilbert cartoon strip on my office wall since 1996. ...
Product Positioning is mostly useless. A waste of time. Simply because it’s so very rarely done well.
Project Insight, online project management software, is assisting teams with keeping their projects on track during vacation season. With schools out for summer, many resources decide to take some time away from work. Project Insight's powerful resource management capabilities are help...
The RIM BlackBerry Playbook made a star-studded debut in the Philippines, with local telco Globe Telecom sticking it into the hands of numerous celebrities during a launch event at an upscale hotel in Makati City, Metro Manila.
The launch party carried a "Happy Hour" theme and more ...
Guess Tilera can stop all the double-talk about whether or not Facebook – and the other major-league cloud companies – except the not-invented-here-enamored Google – are interested its newfangled proprietary many-core x86-compatible servers.
Facebook has just publicly admitted it’s be...
Entrepreneurial execs know that they need to follow the rules, but they may not realize what decisions may lead to the two vital components that keep HR costs lower:
1. Increasing productivity
2. Minimizing human capital expenses
The following white paper will focus on minimizing hu...
Acquia, the popularizer of Drupal, the open source content management system, has gotten a $15 million D round, its largest yet, bringing total outside investment to $38.5 million.
It’s supposed to use the money to expand internationally, particularly in Europe.
It claims it’s ...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Asia Pacific (including Japan) Web Application Firewall Market CY2010" to their offering.
This research service analyzes the Web application firewall (WAF) as a security technology, either hardware or so...
“The cloud provides access to an endless range of services and applications,” noted Uri Mishol, co-founder and CEO, Xoreax Software, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these up-to-date applications companies run the risk of being left behind,...
