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Tuesday, 26th January 2010

Never Mind the Valley

Never Mind the Valley: Here's London

A settlement for nearly 2,000 years, London is today the most populous greater metropolitan area in Europe with over 13 million residents. Home to popular tourist locations such as Big Ben, The London Eye and Buckingham Palace, London's skyline is unmistakable. While London often serves as the representative bridge from Europe to the United States…

Chris Cameron comments

Getting Started With Virtualization: What You Can Do On a Shoestring

Virtualization technology can improve the cost efficiency of the data center by running servers at higher utilization. Deploying virtual servers can yield a more energy efficient data center and reduce the total footprint of a computing environment. Although IT managers have started adopting virtualization for critical infrastructure, reports such…

Mike Kirkwood comments

Paid Content Won't Work for Everybody: Newspaper Sells 35 Subscriptions in 3 Months

On the eve of the Apple tablet announcement, a lot of people are talking about the role the tablet could play in saving the newspaper industry by making paid content a viable alternative to ad-based revenue models. Clearly, though, this strategy won't work for every paper. Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, instituted a paywall three months ago…

Frederic Lardinois comments

How to Reduce Risk While Changing Product Focus

While business plans are a must in this environment, the startup world can hardly be considered predictable. Companies like Flickr, Seemic and Redux were all launched with different original concepts. Nevertheless, the market embraced the new products and each of these companies has done well in carving out a niche. But not every 180 degree shift…

Dana Oshiro comments

LinkedIn Throws the Rolodex Out the Window

Web technology that replicates clunky, analog methods for organizing and interacting with information is a terrible practice and we're glad to see one more example of it departing the Internet with LinkedIn's new address book functionality hitting the site today. While still in beta, the new function looks like a leap ahead of the old…

Mike Melanson comments

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