Bloom Energy CEO K.R. Sridhar spells out how the fuel cell works.
Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog
Archive for February, 2010
Feb-26-10
Yammer Communities Open The Door To B2B Microblog Collaboration And Much More
posted by lee
As we reported last night, Yammer has just announced that it will begin allowing users to sign up for the microblogging service without requiring email addresses that are associated with their company domain names (e.g. jason@company.com). This new feature, called Communities, will open the service to less formal organizations, and even families. And it also opens the door to B2B collaboration, which is how Yammer seems to be primarily marketing the new feature Communities will launch on March 1.
This is a big move for the company. On a conference call this morning, Yammer CEO David Sacks said that one of the problems with Yammer so far has been that communication on the service has been restricted to internal use within a company. The issue many people ran into was that they’d want to collaborate with their clients or business partners as well, but didn’t have a way to do that without inviting them to their company’s internal network (which often wasn’t an option).
The current version of Firefox, 3.6, supports Apple’s Tiger operating system, but the browser’s successor will require Leopard or later.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
Critical security fixes and improvements to the upgrade path from Thunderbird 2 are the key changes in a new version updated Thursday by Mozilla.
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Microsoft wins court approval to shut down a network of PCs which it says is responsible for billions of spam messages.
Video rental service just can’t seem to come up for air. The company announces that it lost $435 million in the fourth quarter–usually its best months of the year.
Originally posted at The Digital Home
This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com?” Why couldn’t applications be run from a simple website, without software or hardware to install, and pricy consultants to hire? Why couldn’t we just compute in the Internet, or the cloud, and get away from the data center and all its complexity. Simply put, I wanted to simplify the enterprise. It was a pretty straight-forward idea, but from the confines in which I sat, there wasn’t anything close to a straight-forward solution.
That vision led to the founding of salesforce.com. But the enterprise world wasn’t ready for Amazon.com, or eBay, or Yahoo, or any of the innovative services that were changing the way consumers bought, sold, or communicated. I tell this story in my book Behind the Cloud and can’t help but note that the factors at play 10 years ago—an inspiring service, wide skepticism, and phenomenal potential—mirror where we are today. But it’s no longer Amazon that frames the questions or gives us the answers.
In this decade, I’ve become obsessed with a new simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?”
Big Blue’s new analytics software project will help extract, annotate, and visually analyze terabytes of Web information. Among its early adopters: the British Library.
Originally posted at Software, Interrupted
The latest beta of Opera makes improvements to its much-discussed new JavaScript engine, and indicates that the Norwegian browser publisher intends on remaining competitive.
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Bloom Energy says its highly touted fuel cell system will deliver lots of power at low cost. But it faces some sticky problems along the way.
Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog
