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Originally posted 2009-07-03 21:11:54. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Israeli startup Soluto has closed a healthy $6.2 million second round of financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This is on top of the $1.6 million round the company raised a year ago from Giza Venture Capital, bringing the total amount of capital invested in the company close to $8 million.
The company, which [...]

Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Founder’s Fund managing partner Sean Parker gave a provocative presentation entitled “The New Era Of The Network Service.” In it, he argues that so-called “network services” like Facebook (which he helped start) and Twitter will soon dominate the web, rather than “information services” like Google and Yahoo.
It’s a very [...]

But then relents and offers free fix
A Dutch hacker who threatened iPhone jailbreakers has relented on their threat to abuse unlocked handsets unless users pay €5.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Originally posted 2009-11-03 20:10:34. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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With close to 100,000 iPhone applications now available on the App Store, finding the ones the ones that you will actually enjoy and use can be difficult. There are other apps and sites that offer a resource for you to find and share popular apps, and even present customized recommendations, such as AppsFire, 16 Apps [...]

Remember the Twitter Peek thingie Peter Ha spotted last week?
Yeah, it’s official now and is actually a neat little device if you Twitter a whole lot and don’t carry a smartphone.
Wait, what?

Originally posted 2009-11-03 21:15:23. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Reid Hoffman, who joined Greylock as an investment partner for its latest fund announced today, chatted briefly with me on trends in social media as the web goes mobile. For him, the mobile web is tied to the Internet as viewed on the PC, but certain applications will be more appropriate for wireless devices.
“The [...]

It’s no secret that women and certain minorities are rare in technology positions, as a Forrester report out today illustrates (see chart). In practice, this means that as a woman who covers tech I don’t have to wait in line at the restroom when I’m on assignment at a conference, but leaving such significant proportions [...]

Last week Apple surprised the iPhone’s developer community with the annoucement that it was finally allowing free apps to offer in-app purchases. The move will likely lead to a fundamental shift in the way developers conduct businesss on the App Store (we’ve already begun to see some changes). I sat down with SGN [...]

Earlier this week, I was in Kunshan, China, to attend the 3G Industry Summit [CN], a four-day event that has attracted a few dozen speakers and an audience of over 200 people, making it one of the biggest of its kind in this country. The annual event is organized by the Kunshan government and Mobile [...]