Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has just raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers with existing investor Sequoia Capital participating in the round. This brings Jive’s total funding to a whopping $57 million. Jive’s CEO Tony Zingale declined to reveal the valuation of the company but said that ...
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A recently discovered listing on the HP website has restarted the rumor mill for the HP Slate, the PC maker's supposed Windows 7 tablet.PCWorld has uncovered a now-removed webpage on HP's website that lists not one, but eight different version of the "HP Slate 500" tablet. Energy Star also lists the product on its website.Here are the specs, according ...
Today marked the inaugural post from U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the Department of Energy’s new Energy Blog, which it has launched in an obvious effort to better engage with the American public — especially in the wake of the BP oil spill, and leading up to mid-term elections in November that could change ...
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Alliant Techsystems has announced that the United States Navy has accepted the initial deliveries of AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) production missiles.
The missiles were delivered to the U.S. Navy by ATK at its Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) facility located in Rocket Center, WV. The AARGM team has previously completed both the Developmental and ...
Have an LG Ally? Just love those soft updates? Well, Verizon Wireless is rolling out an update for the LG Ally starting this weekend. The update contains bug fixes and minor OS Improvements including:
Increased QWERTY keyboard operability.
Streamlined alert functions.
Improved usability with alert sounds for authentication or confirmation of Bluetooth® functions.
Increased speed and response time for Messaging and Camera ...
Investors are trying to get a read on the economy using earnings reports. They're finding it's not so easy.
Mashable - Brightkite has launched a new way for their users and partner brands to get more out of location-based checkins.
Control4, maker of dashboards that allow consumers to automate their homes — everything from their media collections to their security systems to their thermostats — has just launched a platform allowing third-party Flash developers to create and contribute their own apps to Control4’s repertoire. At the same time, it’s opened up a contest for developers ...
The 2010 American Customer Survey Index conducted by ForeSee Results gave Facebook 64 out of 100 points in a customer satisfaction survey; that's lower than any other business in its category. However, it's not at the bottom of the social media heap; MySpace received one point less. ForeSee Results CEO Larry Freed says that "privacy concerns, frequent changes to ...
Terracotta and companies in the new world of distributed data environments have an increasingly important role in the cloud computing universe.
Simply due to the fact that they are forcing more change in the database market then we have seen in the past 20 years.
Terracotta is a case in point. Today, the company announced its new version of Ehcache, which can ...
We noted last year, that many believe U.S. President Obama's push for governmental transparency has been a failure. Whether that's true, the overall tendency toward access continues to gather momentum.
The U.S. House of Representatives has announced a public hearing to explore making publicly-funded research open to the public. Legislators in both the House and the Senate have already introduced ...
Macworld.com - Handy Light, a newly-available flashlight app for the iPhone, isn’t actually a flashlight app at all—it’s a sneakily disguised tethering utility that lets you share your phone’s Internet connection with your laptop. In other words, it’s an app that’s surely not long for this world.
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A new Adobe AIR demo is making the rounds today; it shows how Android phones can be used for user-to-user video calls.Built using an upcoming release of AIR 2.5, this app is the AndroidAndroid and Adobe developer communities' answer to FaceTime. The more generous in spirit would call this move "cheeky." At any rate, it throws yet another log on ...
Grid Net, the smart grid communications provider known for championing WiMAX as the best option for transmitting energy data between meters, utilities and consumers, announced that it is partnering with Oracle’s utilities division to sell network and meter management software.
Oracle delved deep into the smart grid software space last year, when it launched an ...
A proposed California law to ban violent game sales to minors has gained the support of eleven states as it heads to the Supreme Court.
AFP - Strong debuts for the iPad tablet computer and the new iPhone powered gadget maker Apple to a record quarter which blew past the expectations of Wall Street analysts.
Christopher Null - The press release is fascinating yet almost impossible to believe: According to Amazon.com, e-books have become so popular that they are now outselling hardcover books, with 180 e-books sold for every 100 hardcovers that go out the door, at least over the last month. (Free books are excluded from that figure.)
Yammer, a status update tool for businesses, said it crossed 1 million users today and added that the number of paid users has grown by more than 57 percent from the first quarter of this year.
Sometimes called Twitter for business, Yammer is an internal social network that lets co-workers and teams share what they’re working on continuously. More than 70 ...