Earlier this week, influential tech blogger and aspiring cool product entrepreneur Michael Arrington announced that the eagerly anticipated CrunchPad was stillborn. While we will have to wait for more information to know the real story behind the dispute behind Arrington's company TechCrunch and its partner in the venture, Fusion Garage, there are some interesting issues raised by what Arrington has so far revealed.
Statement of Association for Competitive Technology President Jonathan Zuck on New York Attorney General’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel "The software development community is concerned that this lawsuit will be counterproductive and may jeopardize the unparalleled innovation and value the chip industry has produced over the past 20 years. While the [...]
If cloud computing is vulnerable (as I previously blogged) then there may be a product to the rescue. Last week TrendMicro introduced an update to its Deep Security product that offers protection for the entire server--the OS, network and applications layers. Larry Magid at CNET News interviewed TrendMicro's CEO Eva [...]
Researchers recently identified a security issue in Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) that allows a hacker to to locate and eavesdrop on targeted virtual machines anywhere in the cloud. The report--with the catchy title "Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Computer Clouds". According to [...]
Buddha teaches us that there are only two mistakes that can be made along the road to truth: not starting and not going all the way. In the brief history of Internet governance, few initiatives have been greeted with wider support than the recently signed Affirmation of Commitments between the [...]
