Blog Profile / GigaOM
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| Posts on Regator: | 20576 | |
| Posts / Week: | 77.7 | |
| Archived Since: | April 22, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
ViaSat taps Boeing to build new super-satellite scheduled for launch in 2016
ViaSat-1 went up about 18 months ago, but the satellite broadband company is already planning its next-generation bird, ViaSat-2. The high-Earth orbiter will far exceed Via-Sat-1's already impressive 140 Gbps of total capacity.
The road less traveled: How Google does Streetview for the world’s oceans
Google and the Catlin Seaview Survey are working as fast as they can to map the world's coral reefs in Google Streetview. But the project's founder fears he may be too late.
How Google cleverly improved Android without releasing Android 4.3 at Google I/O
How do you deliver a new mobile operating system version without actually making it available for download? Give developers the tools to add new features through APIs and services: No muss, no fuss, and no additional device fragmentation.
One more point about Google+ vs Facebook design aesthetic
My post about the Google+ redesign and the shift in direction from Facebook design has met with some well reasoned argument. Here I present my own arguments, and reason why I think the two design philosophies are moving in different direction.
Jelly raises Series A from investors including Jack Dorsey, Al Gore, Bono
Jelly has raised a Series A round to continue hiring and prototyping the mysterious mobile product from ex-Twitter executives. Still no word on what the company's working on.
Hydrogen energy the chloroplast way: solar-to-fuel with the artificial leaf
The first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis is developed for producing hydrogen with cheap components and biomimicry.
Google jumpstarts Glass development with apps form Twitter, Facebook and Evernote
Google Glass is still leagues short having the thriving developer community of Android, but at I/O Google began seeding that app ecosystems with the help of six big-name web and media brands.
Can microscholarships help fix financial aid? Raise Lab tries new model
Startup Raise Labs wants to rethink college financial aid with a model that enables students to earn micro scholarships over the course of their high-school careers.
Verizon starts offering bigger data buckets on its prepaid smartphone plans
Verizon's prepaid plans are still more expensive than other no-contract operators, but you can now get 2 GB of 3G data on the $60 plan and 4 GB on the $70 plan.
As Amazon, Google, Microsoft beat each others brains in, who wins? The user
It may not be pleasant for the competitors, but cloud competition is nothing but good for cloud consumers -- whether they're startups or Fortune 100 companies.
Black box software: a problem for science that extends to big data
Blind trust in black box, or click-and-run, software is a growing problem in science, and the concern extends to big data and high performance computing.
Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out
Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia's Emily Bell said Thursday.
Google, NASA quantum computing project could bring stronger machine learning to the masses
Google said Thursday it is establishing a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab to trigger the next phase of machine learning with the power of quantum computers. The efforts could trickle down to ordinary people.
The web giants are rising above humans and their petty rules, and that worries me
The titans of the web are rebels, playing by their own rules. That is to be applauded at times, but we should also be thinking about the wider, long-term implications for society and fair competition.
Devicescape coaxes smartphone users onto their own home Wi-Fi networks
Devicescape says nearly one and three smartphone buyers never bother to connect their devices to their home Wi-Fi networks, but it's developed a means of luring those customers into the Wi-Fi fold.
Sponsored post: The question you didn’t ask is the one you regret
All other analytics solutions answer specific questions asked by users. However, for most real-world data, there are simply too many possible questions for a person to consider all of them. BeyondCore automatically asks all possible questions, then presents the most useful answers in order of importance.
So Google Compute Engine is out, your move Amazon
Now that GCE is available to all -- complete with by-the-minute charges and a new NoSQL database service, we eagerly await Amazon's response. Make no mistake, there will be one.
Amazon cloud watcher Newvem now watches Azure too
With Amazon beefing up its own AWS monitoring tools, it makes sense for companies like Newvem to take on other clouds. That's just what Newvem is doing.
Ringadoc raises $700k to move closer to the frontline of virtual health care
San Francisco-based Ringadoc has raised an additional $700,000 to help doctors streamline communication with patients.
Sponsored post: Open markets for IT infrastructure
In a provocative live webinar, David Linthicum, Jo Maitland and John Cowan discuss the emergence of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market exchanges and how they will change the technology landscape and financial approach to IT infrastructure.