Venture capitalists can't work out how to profit from the rising popularity of Web 2.0 services, the UK Technology Innovation & Growth Forum heard on Monday.
At the TechNet Innovation Summit in San Jose, California, John Doerr, a partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks about how he thinks this is a period of "intense innovation" that will empower consumers.
Early results in a study that aims to track open source installations in business has seen Ubuntu and Firefox race to the top of the charts.
Mozilla CEO John Lilly has hit out at Apple, accusing the company of doing a disservice to Windows users everywhere by including its Safari browser as a default add-on installation in the latest iTunes update, likening it to the way malware is distributed.
The majority of people looking to work for Web 2.0 startup companies are prepared to sacrifice pay in exchange for shares in the venture they're joining.
Blogs consisting solely of bullet points seem to be popular these days, if Guy Kawasaki's rather lazy blog is anything to go by. This morning, Microsoft's Don Dodge detailed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins' list of seven rules for software startups, as told by KP partner Ajit Nazre at a recent conference.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
Defhead.com chooses music acts, invite them to play at an inner-city Sydney venue and Webcast the show live to their Web site visitors. Here is some behind-the-scenes footage of the night as well as an interview with the lead singer of Something With Numbers.
Sick of being the biggest loser when it comes to free-to-air Web portals, Ten's getting serious. Time to check in on the eve of their new site launch.
The major security flaws suffered by the Big Brother Web site are the most recent example of an apparent "launch first, fix later" approach within Channel Ten. But a chequered history with the Web may help explain the problems.
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
Ever get the feeling that we aren't quite yet where we want to be? Here are 10 factors that may be holding back the world's technological development.
Sony has been in the news a lot in the last year, but mostly for the wrong reasons.
While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.
Blogging is an increasingly important element of business communication and collaboration. But different types of blog suit different kinds of business. Here's a classification.
Why on earth would you promote your product with food-based representations of deceased politicians?
A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks.
Microsoft Money 2006 is a worthwhile upgrade for current users who like to bank and pay bills online, but it requires Windows XP.
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