Wesley Chan, director and lead voice strategist for Google, today told a bunch of hopeful entrepreneurs how to persuade Google to buy their companies. The answer seems to be to really annoy the company's top brass.
Mohsen Moazami, VP of Cisco's internet business solutions group, told the Etre conference today that it has devolved its management from 10 top stars 10 years ago to 2,500 to 3,000 people now.
Opinion Twitter is all the rage. And while it's great fun, is it really worth $1 billion, which is what the Wall Street Journal pegs it at after a $100 million investment led by T. Rowe Price and Insight Venture Partners last week?
The Great Recession has taken its toll on IT vendors. Loads of
companies have lost money. Too many to count failed to meet Wall
Street’s insane profit expectations. Their layoffs put thousands of
smart workers on the street. It’s been devastating.
Chip firm AMD is holding an alternative event just a block away from
the Intel Developer Forum and wheeling in stray hacks off the street,
briefing them about the stuff it makes.
A case started in a Delaware district court on the 4th of September,
alleging many of the most important networking companies in the world
breached an existing patent.
A startup is set to launch a system which combines 3D voice, good audio
and visual telecommunications to connect people across countries and
continents.
US telcos have hit on a clever idea to provide universal broadband to every US citizen - they're calling on the government to define broadband as anything over 768 Kbps downstream and 200 Kbps upstream.
University of California computer scientists have created software that they believe will allow massive data centers to logically function as single, plug-and-play networks.
