Technology Industry Archive

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang made an interesting comment during his appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit this week. When asked what caused the pending ad deal with Google to go south, Yang said - among other things - that Washington doesn’t understand our industry. Amen, brother! Having spent a couple of years working insider the Beltway, I know what it is to have people stare at you with a blank look in...

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YouTube may be about to enter a key dealmaking phase kicked off by plans to run full-length ad supported movies on its site. However, the big missing element may be a better cut for the entertainment industry. Let’s connect a few dots on YouTube: CNET News’ Greg Sandoval reports that YouTube will begin offering feature films from at least one of Hollywood’s big studios next month. These...

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Google is hoping to perfect YouTube’s video identification system with the help of a company that hasn’t filed financials with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has a convoluted history and is run by a self-proclaimed “natural born content pirate.” And oh yeah this company–Nexicon–is a penny stock. Nexicon trades as a “pink sheet,” an illiquid and risky stock from a...

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WiFi on steroids — The F.C.C. voted 5-0 to set aside some spectrum, the so-called white space frequencies that lie between broadcast channels, to allow development of technologies like wireless broadband. Broadcasters oppose the decision out of concern that future devices using the spectrum could cause interference. Broadway producers are also concerned that the wireless microphones used...

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It’s a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking. In theory, companies like Salesforce.com and NetSuite should thrive in a downturn. Customers can...

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In a move that’s not terribly surprising, Google said Wednesday that it is scrapping its search advertising deal with Yahoo. Google’s decision puts Yahoo’s search business back in play and may bring Microsoft back into the picture. In a blog post, Google announced it was ending its plans for a Yahoo partnership. Yahoo had planned to use Google’s ads if the monetization rates were better...

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Boston tech sees layoffs, offers buzz-off to students — A number of Boston-area companies beyond the brand-new-what-color-should-we-make-the-logo tech companies are finding themselves laying off people in reaction to the current economic climate and in anticipation of more to come. That’s fine, because according to Scott Kirsner, who has been a long-time watcher of the area’s...

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WiMAX gets WiMAD money– As companies get ready for a rocky slide, WiMAX management vendor WiChorus put down a considerable layer of burlap in the form of $18 million in funding from Pinnacle Ventures and three current investors. This makes a total of $43 million the company has pulled in. The FCC gave its blessing to the $14.5 billion Sprint Nextel and Clearwire deal, announced in May, to...

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Motorola reported an operating loss of 397 million dollars, or $0.18 a share, for the third-quarter ended September 30, as revenues fell 15 percent to 7.48 billion dollars. The mobile phone maker, still stumbling from its failure to design smartphones to compete against the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Blackberry models from Research in Motion, now has a new misstep to deal with — poor...

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Details on Intel’s Core i7 — Although it still hasn’t released the chip, Intel is offering more information on its anticipated Core i7 architecture. A big change is a triple-channel integrated memory controller and a new point-to-point interconnect protocol that would speed communications between memory and CPU, or even multiple CPUs. The result seems to be something so fast...

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