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Ballmer Pitches Windows 7 As Cost-Cutting Tool

GigaOm  Sep 29 09

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage today in San Francisco to extol how the company’s new slate of products — Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server2010 — can help businesses save money and increase productivity as corporate IT budgets remain tight. The phrase Ballmer repeated throughout the talk was “with [...] Full story...

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EMC’s Crazy Plan to Create a Worldwide Data Cloud

GigaOm  5 hours ago

Pat Gelsinger is stirring things up EMC with a plan to virtualize and federate storage so data and compute can be linked together to keep constantly changing information up to date despite networks that are built for gigabytes rather than petabytes.

Microsoft Gives Developers the Hard Sell at MIX10

GigaOm  6 hours ago

Microsoft is betting that that Silverlight can help lure third-party developers to its Windows Phone operating system, which is scheduled to be released by the end of the year.

SXSW: As MOG Goes Mobile, the U.S. Waits (and Waits) for Spotify

GigaOm  6 hours ago

Music service MOG unveiled its new mobile applications today, promising premium subscribers the ability to stream any song, anytime, anywhere.

FCC’s Broadband Plan: The Role Of Competition

GigaOm  8 hours ago

The executive summary of the National Broadband Plan is out today, and we finally know how the FCC plans to treat the issue most responsible for the current state of broadband in the U.

Happy Anniversary: 25 Years of Dot-coms

GigaOm  8 hours ago

The dot-com turns 25. Over the years dot-coms became a symbol of an Internet bubble and a technology bust.

Ning’s CEO Shuffle: Gina Bianchini Steps Down

GigaOm  9 hours ago

Ning co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini is leaving the company and is being replaced by current chief operating officer and former Opsware executive Jason Rosenthal.

Google Buzz: Should You Cross the Streams?

GigaOm  9 hours ago

As Google continues to try and adapt Buzz to the changing needs of users, debate continues over whether the service should be its own separate publishing platform, like a blog, or whether it should be used to aggregate content from other social networks such as Twitter.

The Nexus One Needs More Hype

GigaOm  10 hours ago

HTC has begun shipping its Android handset to Verizon Wireless in advance of a launch in the next few weeks.

For Apps, iPhone Bigger Than Facebook Platform

GigaOm  11 hours ago

When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company.

Appistry Joins Cloudscale Storage Fray, and Brings Hadoop With It

GigaOm  11 hours ago

Appistry today added another element to its cloud-computing application platform, announcing the April availability of CloudIQ Storage.



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