By Danny Wool
There’s good new for people getting bored with all the Cisco commercials featuring actress Ellen Page going all rustic in rural Nova Scotia. On Tuesday the company will announce the release of a series of new products which “will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments.” Sounds good. So what is it?
The Financial Times is speculating that Cisco plans to launch an ultra-high speed system for the internet, in
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Steve Ballmer at SMX West. Photo Copyright 2010, Chris Silver Smith/silvery.com
By Dan Pulcrano
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer embedded himself in Google’s physical and virtual ecosystem Tuesday to evangelize the Bing search engine to attendees of the search engine conference SMX West. Mounting the stage at the Santa Clara Convention Center Tuesday morning with a raise of his eyebrows, a head nod to the audience and a bounce in his step, the animated CEO wore a cherry
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[Silicon Alley Insider]
I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC. This is sometimes interpreted as arguing that NYC is a better place to start a company than the Valley. I’ve never meant my arguments to be about where it is better to start a company. California is a phenomenal place to start a tech company. NYC is a great place as well. To me, the important question
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[Valleywag]
Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an “explicit chat” to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that’s bad.
WSJ.com editor Zach Seward ended up with misdirected messages from about 100 people, according to a post on the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog, including “one couple’s entire explicit chat session. —Ryan Tate
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[Digital Daily]
Evidently, Baidu isn’t nearly as effective an academic research tool as Google, because the latter’s threatened withdrawal from China has got the country’s scientists pretty worried. A survey of 784 Chinese scientists by science journal Nature found that many feel the search engine is indispensable to their work, particularly if it requires English-language searches for material outside China. — John Paczkowski
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[TechCrunch]
Super-angel Ron Conway, who is one of the most prolific and successful investors in Silicon Valley, is expanding his SV Angel fund to include outside investors (recently he has invested only his own capital in startups). He is raising a new fund of around $10 million, we’ve confirmed.—Michael Arrington
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[Danny Wool, SV411]
Is the Bloom box, the refrigerator-sized invention unveiled in San Jose yesterday, the much-vaunted holy grail of electrical power-generation, with the capacity to free us from PG&E ? Is it really the answer to California’s energy woes, a cleaner alternative to coal? Can it really convert all the methane gas from landfills or flatulent cows into a clean, renewable source of energy?
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It was clear what Clinton volunteers in San Jose had in mind on Super Tuesday: minority voters. Her campaigners didn’t waste one minute at the San Jose headquarters; they sat around space heaters and pizza boxes calling South Bay voters all the way up to the minute before the polls closed. But they weren’t just dialing up anyone; volunteers strategically placed more than 3,000 calls Tuesday, targeting Latino and Asian Americans—two major voting groups in
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What’s going on with Santa Clara County schools and departing Superintendent Colleen B. Wilcox? If she was as bad as the board says, why is she getting such a capacious golden parachute? If she can’t manage her underlings, as alleged, why is she allowed to keep working on “special projects” for nine months? And in the wake of the city auditor’s scandal, what’s wrong with upper management in our city and county? Why can’t these
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