“We’ve made the business decision to go with SimpleDB even simpler than it was before. You can now get started for free. For at least the next six months, you can consume up to 500MB of storage, and you can use up to 25 machine-hours each month. You can transfer 1GB of data in, and [...]
CNET staffers took a closer look at the browser, and concluded it takes a large leap forward. But it’s still unclear whether it’s enough to make devoted Firefox, Chrome, and Safari fans switch.
In other Apple news, Psystar, Apple’s least favorite clone maker, has a new desktop out that comes with Mac OS X [...]
News that the company is considering filing for bankruptcy protection comes just before the all-important late-year holiday sales rush, which is unfortunate timing. Besides a dismal economy, and having to compete with Best Buy and Wal-Mart Stores on Black Friday prices, the company also must now deal with declining consumer confidence in a chain that [...]
According to you, readers, Barack Obama’s an iPhone, while John McCain is a phonograph, and Sarah Palin is a Hello Kitty assault rifle.
News.com Poll Judging Joe If Joe Biden were a tech product what would he be?
Now, in the final installment of our presidential-race-related Friday Poll, our thoughts turn to Delaware Sen. Joe [...]
In regards the OpenSocial code, version 0.9 is due out at the beginning of next year. Glazer was asked to speculate on when version 1.0 would be released. “The functionality of 0.9 feels 1.0-worthy. But we don’t want to stretch beyond what we know,” he said.
OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as [...]
IBM is counting on the prevalent economic pressures to help make its “Microsoft-free” suite more appealing.
“Deploying your technology this way is going to save you something more than 50 percent of your total costs,” Jeff Smith, IBM’s vice president for open source and Linux, told the Journal. “As customers face an increasingly challenging economic situation, [...]
In its latest 1M tpmC benchmark, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 outperformed all other operating systems on price performance in the 1M+ range. The Red Hat-based benchmark system delivered 1,200,632 transactions per minute and improved the price performance to $1.99, delivering a 20 percent savings in comparison to competitors. The single system proves its capability [...]
The MySpace Karaoke recorder allows users to record video in either standard-definition or high-definition formats, with as little as a microphone and Webcam. Once users pick a song they want to perform, they can click on the “Play” button, which will bring them to the Karaoke page for the particular song.
The first MySpace Karaoke contest kicks off today and will run through October 27. The contest’s artist will be Jesse McCartney.
MySpace announced on Wednesday that
While this represents a small portion of total venture dollars, there are some large deals ($100 million and $70 million), as well as ones typical of early-stage companies ($500,000 to $4 million).
I’m not sure why it takes so much money to build these popular virtual worlds, but it seems that investors still have an appetite to provide money. The fourth quarter saw $101 million in investment, with Gofish, Playfish, and Playspan grabbing $22.5 million, $17 million, and $1