Startups New IBM Strategy: Help Startups Capture More Business Last summer IBM began asking their 120 venture capital partners what it would take to launch the world's most successful initiative for helping startups capture new business. They concluded that the initiative had to be offered to startups for free, with no upsell and regardless of VC status. Add to this IBM's preferred software, as well as access… Deane Rimerman View comments
News Open-Source Success: Alfresco Software Reports Record Revenues Alfresco Software reported record revenues today, providing a signal that open-source technologies are a top choice for the enterprise as the economy moves out of the recession and cloud computing becomes more prevalent. Alfresco reported both record fourth quarter earnings and record revenues for 2009. Growth is up 61% compared to last year… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
Blogging Posterous Adds Custom Domains Posterous, the integrated small blogging platform, announced the debut of one-stop custom domain registration today. A new "domain purchasing feature" provides a one-click on-site way to avoid what Posterous' Vincent Chu called "the geeky details" of securing and applying a personal domain to your account. Curt Hopkins View comments
Government Yahoo Hacked in China: Journalists, Others Affected Associated Press initially reported that three foreign journalists and one analyst have seen their email accounts hacked into today. The New York Times subsequently reported that there were "at least a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China," including the author Andrew Jacobs. AP: "They were greeted with messages… Curt Hopkins View comments
Data Portability Gmail Becomes an App Platform: Google Adds OAuth to IMAP You may or may not be excited by the acronyms OAuth and IMAP/SMTP, but the combination of them all together is very exciting news. Google Code Labs announced this afternoon that it has just enabled 3rd party developers to securely access the contents of your email without ever asking you for your password. If you're logged in to Gmail, you can… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments