Sun just announced this week the acquisition of German desktop virtualisation company, Innotek. At Sun's Global Media Summit, I asked Sun Executive VP of software, Rich Green, to explain how Innotek's Virtualbox is different from the other "type 2"...

If there's one thing to remember of my meeting today with the folks at Seagate's Recovery Services is, to BACKUP our data! Obviously, it's not the first (and the last) time you hear a hard disk drive company recommend...

Privacy and Start-ups were the highlights for this last day of Sun's global media summit. On the privacy front, I met again with Michelle Dennedy, Sun's Chief Privacy Officer or CPO. Contrary to some companies, where both roles of...

On Monday, Yahoo rejected Microsoft buyout offer of $31 a share for being too low. So what would be the right price for the Internet portal? $35, $40, $50? Well for Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, the magic number for...

During the Q&A sessions at Sun Microsystems' Global Media Summit, CEO Jonathan Schwartz shed a light on the *arduous* process of acquiring open source database company MySQL for $1 billion. Schwartz said he offered to acquire MySQL 5 years...

This morning, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) is kicking off his company's Global Media Summit hosted at its Menlo Park campus. Although one would think that with the economy slowing down, the first thing companies would do is to...

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass (pictured) kicked off his company's Press Day event today with a little joke... a way to get everybody in the right mood before a long CAD day! Bass was remembering the worst day of his...

Today, Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch is reporting that dating web site HotOrNot has been sold to Canadian company Avid Life Media, "a network of targeted niche brands with highly engaged users", for around $20M. According to Markus Frind, CEO...

This week, two large Silicon Valley companies, Autodesk and Sun Microsystems, are hosting their "Media Days". Expect live and after the fact coverage for both events. - Tuesday: Autodesk's executive management, including CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalski, will...