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iTracMoney 1.0 (Mobile)

iTracMoney is a simple money management application designed to track your daily income and spending. Track your assets with three different account types, Cash, Bank Account, and Credit Card. Backup your information in either a CSV file (sent via email from your iPhone/iPod Touch) or a OFX file (accessible through...

Tags: Mobile, Backup, Apple iTunes, Wireless Network, East Coast Silicon, iTracMoney, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-07

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GOOG Chief: Silicon Valley's secret is its weather

Valid points, though.You mention good schools and employees, but there are GREAT schools in the north east. There are a lot of companies and a large population from which to pull employees, too. When you compare the weather in San Francisco to the weather in the north east, the choice...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Data Domain officially rejects EMC: Will cash be king?

Data Domain's board of directors is recommending that its shareholders reject EMC's $30 a share in cash bid. The company has already approved an acquisition by NetApp for $1.9 billion. Data Domain on Monday said it reached its decision based on the following statement: ...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Domain, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so

Talk about the insulated bubble that is Silicon Valley. Sequoia, one of the best venture capital firms out there, emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has...

Tags: Web, Sequoia, E-mail, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Go West young IT worker!

In 1851 Indianna journalist John Soule advised: "Go West Young Man." With the financial crisis causing turmoil in the financial services sector there are tens of thousands of IT jobs being lost on the East coast and elsewhere in the US. On WebGuild Daya...

Tags: Job, Financial, Information Technology, Startup Life, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Wall Street woes? Silicon Valley is hiring

I caught a great post by Claire Cain Miller on the New York Times' Bits blog last night about the upswing, so to speak, of the current economic crisis: that is, that if you can't keep a job on Wall Street, Silicon Valley will take you: Laid off from...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Hiring, Wall Street, Recruitment & Selection, Venture Capital, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Geek feast fatigue...and the key rule for startup success

This year started off much like the prior year ended: with a cornucopia of geek conferences, salons, and media roundtables. I went to a lot last year, and enjoyed most of them. I have been going to a lot this year and I am still enjoying them....

Tags: Silicon Valley, Sales Tools, Sales, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Plastic is good for our environment (and computers)

Plastic is good for our environment and computersPlastic Good??What you seem to be forgetting is that you can grow more trees, rear more cows. I haven't heard of anyone yet that has been able to grow more oil??? As we move more towards renewable and sustainable energy sources such as...

Tags: Plastic Good?, carbon dioxide, environment, computer

Discussion threads 2007-12-01

Silicon Valley, green tech and the mystery of it all

There's another attempt by an observer to capture the essence, the source, of Silicon Valley's success at chruning out new, and sometimes successful ideas. his one happens to be from an East Coast newspaper. Bemused but impressed is the usual attitude of those who live outside the halo...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Facebook, Apple iPod, Green Technology, Article, Apple Inc., Story, Microsoft Corp., Lucasfilms, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-26

These stats offer fascinating insights into Internet music, retail use

Internet infrastructure services provider Akamai says it delivers betwen 15 to 20 percent of the world's Web traffic on any given day.Now, Akamai has launched a fleet of free Web-based services that show real-time, last-24-hours and historical traffic pattern data on activity and demand for general Internet connections, retail transactions,...

Tags: Streaming media, Predictions and Observations, News

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Will East Coast funds create a Bubble 2.0?

I popped into the Web 2.0 Expo and conference Monday afternoon at the cavernous Moscone West in downtown San Francisco. I needed to get to the third floor to get my press credentials. Joining me in the elevator was Matthew, from an East Coast music startup. We started chatting and...

Tags: Venture capital

Blog posts 2007-04-17

AT&T buys poster child of ASP boom years

USinternetworking, which lit the fuse on the ASP boom when it stormed to a 173% gain and a $2.9 billion valuation on the first day of its NASDAQ IPO in April 1999, was acquired yesterday by AT&T for $300 million. Back in 1999, Annapolis, MD-based USi was the...

Tags: USi, Microsoft ASP

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Where is the new leadership of the tech industry?

Scott McNealy's departure from Sun Microsystems has been on the cards for more than a year. It will likely be just one of many departures by veteran Silicon Valley and other captains of the tech industry over the next year or two, as that generation moves into the grey zone...

Tags: leader, leadership, Sun Microsystems Inc., tech industry, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Intel, Google and marketing gurus

This week Intel has been in the news as it has spilled news of Microsoft's Origami Project in a carefully orchestrated product and buzz build. Revealed at its semi-annual Developer Forum, the company has also tried to pump up its prospects a week after revealing a precipitous decline in...

Tags: Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Blogosphere should pay its respects to rap culture

I'm a newbie to blogging. I started barely a year ago, and I'm still a newbie. But I love this form of writing because it is a unique media format yet familiar in many ways.Blogging is part e-mail, it is part column, it is part news story--it can encompass a...

Tags: blogging

Blog posts 2006-01-17

Motorola's pugnacious Ed Zander chosen to lead US high-tech industry in important policy battles

Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola, is the new chairman of the Technology CEO Council--a Washington D.C. lobbying group consisting of the top echelons of the US tech industry.Take a look: Founded in 1989, its members include Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard; Joseph McGrath, CEO of Unisys; William Nuti,...

Tags: Ed Zander, Motorola Inc., tech company, tech industry, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2005-12-09

Microsoft draws new fire for lobbyist ties

Microsoft draws new fire for lobbyist tiesIf you're surprised, you're an idiotWasn't it pretty inevitable? Microsoft had to go to the Bush administration to get all the leniency it could buy on antitrust action, and the Bush administration paid it off big time by essentially dropping any real further action...

Tags: RSS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-04-26