April 2009
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Trouble in the valley.
The investment fund organized a meeting yesterday, where he invited entrepreneurs and chief executives of companies in its investment portfolio. Attendees were greeted by a beautiful image of a gravestone with an inscription that read “RIP: Good Times” (RIP = Rest In Peace, or rest in peace), as mentioned in Gigaom. The image shown on [...]
The fate of internet startups
Undoubtedly the current economic crisis impacting the financial sector is investing in new businesses (startups) on the web, just on the topic in the blog “A VC (VC = Venture Capital), author Fred Wilson says some of his friends as investors are changing their way of deciding which projects to invest in, and apparently now [...]
Fixing Windows with Linux
Finding utilities to repair a Windows 2003 partition after a hard reboot, I found an interesting Linux LiveCD called Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) to boot from a USB flash disk, a CD / DVD or on the network using the protocol PXE allows repair a damaged Windows partition, or make a copy of the files [...]
Fight for the OS of the future
There is no doubt that this economic crisis redraw the landscape of technology, a proof of this is that netbooks have captured the scene and are the protagonists of the ICT sector. This has occurred primarily for two reasons, first is the terrible economic situation has limited the spending power of most households and the [...]
Obama, recession and Open Source
In an article by Ryan Paul, which appeared at ArsTechnica, it says that Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said he has been contacted by members of the Obama administration, to assist in developing a plan that would aim to reduce ICT costs in various areas of the U.S. government, federal and [...]
Google trying to date Twitter!
At TechCrunch, Michael Arrington has endorsed the technology gossip at the time, the possible acquisition of Twitter from Google. It should be mentioned that this is still a rumor, but apparently has begun to gain strength to the point that the denials have begun among bloggers, for example Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider says [...]