The two haven’t been married yet. But just listen to Chamath Palihapitiya, vice president at Facebook - where photo uploads are a popular feature today. Video is the next “logical place to go,” said Palihapitiya at the Mobilize conference...

What if billions of people could share photos and live accounts of news events and other goings-ons? Wouldn’t a clearer picture of the world emerge? That’s the expectation of Marc Davis, chief scientist at Yahoo!, who says such “multi-billion...

(credit: TechFever Network) The mobile business is being transformed by a new openness, says Rich Miner (pictured), group manager at Google. But Miner was hush-hush about next week’s expected launch of Google’s Android-based cell phone during a keynote address...

(credit: TechFever Network) The rapid evolution of the cell phone is destine to change our lives the way the Internet has since the public flood gates opened a decade ago. So what imaginative applications are already doing this? Here’s...

At the ZendCon developers conference yesterday, which is held at the same Santa Clara convention centre than DiskCon - making it a lot easier to cover both events -, I've attended part of the State of Ajax presentation by...

Can hard disk and solid state drive makers work together? Maybe on some standards, intellectual property licensing or on a common nomenclature. But that's about it. The two camps are just in such a fierce battle targeting the same...

At the DiskCon conference, I sat down with IDEMA president - also the show's organiser-, Joel Weiss (pictured) to discuss some of the changes his 22 years old trade organisation had to confront in the face of a consolidating...

As expected at DiskCon, the disk drive industry conference being held this week in Santa Clara, there has been a lot of talks about drives. But not so much about the traditional magnetic spinning drive, as opposed to its...

Tesla Motors offered new details on its planned Model S sedan Wednesday, saying the electric car will be unveiled early next year with a maximum 300-mile driving range. The news from Chairman Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, came on...

The high-definition video-disc crown can safely be placed on Blu-ray’s head. The Sony-backed technology came from behind to dispatch its cheaper rival: HD-DVD. But winning the war may being few spoils. Sales of DVD players have declined in major...

The pace of technological change is picking up. But the source isn’t what you might expect. It’s not strictly computers, but the intersection of nanotechnology and synthetic genetics, where researchers re-engineer the code of life in microorganisms, said Steve...

San Francisco-based CallWave launched its widely anticipated Fuze collaboration and high-definition video conferencing service. The company said Tuesday the service will go into beta testing and can be used from a computer or cell phone. Fuze also requires that...

Silicon Valley spawned the technology revolution. But turning the tables on Detroit to design a car with revolutionary gas mileage is a challenge 100 times greater, says Ray Lane, managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. “It’s a huge...

The human race may have never experienced a greater challenge than today’s energy-based global warming. But solutions exist in the least anticipated places – and not in today’s corn-derived ethanol. Maverick geneticist J. Craig Venter, who helped map the...

U.S. companies will almost certainly produce biofuels in enough volume to help curb global warming from automobiles and other vehicles. But it will take time and patience from a world eager to move away from the oil economy and...

Online video and the explosion of IP messages around the world boosted computer network traffic by a whopping 55 percent last year. Growth this year may be even more dramatic, according to Cisco Systems. And a compounded 46 percent...

San Jose has ambitious green-tech plans – and it is eager to hear from startups with burgeoning technologies. The Silicon Valley city’s goals are broad. It wants electricity made from renewable sources, vehicles that run on alternative fuels, more...

This morning, Intel officially launched its 6-cores chip code-named Dunnington at a press conference in San Francisco's Regis Hotel. The new Xeon 7400 processor is targeted at 4-processors servers and is the last iteration of Intel's current "front-side bus"...

It is no secret that corporations are turning their attention from traditional in-house software packages to more agile services delivered over the Internet. But how they are making this transformation is less well known. Executives at Hewlett-Packard say they...

The virtualization leader took the occasion of its user conference in Las Vegas to unveil a strategy for extending its market into virtual datacenters. The plan is to extend its flagship virtualization products into a “virtual datacenter operating system,”...

Women and girls at both ends of the age spectrum are coddling up to online gaming. Overall, females playing online games in August grew 27 percent compared with a year ago to nearly 43 million, according to comScore. The number...

Yahoo's 24-hour hack-a-thon aka Open Hack Day 2008 finally wrapped up on Saturday evening at the company's Sunnyvale campus. More than 330 developers representing 12 countries attended and submitted 47 hacks. The Xoopit team, including developer Jerry Su (pictured),...

Juniper Networks is scheduled to introduce a pair of powerful new firewalls on Monday. The new products, the SRX 5800 and 5600 services gateways, will be 2 to 4 times faster than the company’s present firewall and use less...

I've attended both Google I/O and Facebook f8 developer conferences which both were held in San Francisco and were much bigger than Yahoo's Open Hack Days, with more than 1,000 attendees. When you compare with Yahoo's event that only...

This our friends at MomentiMedia photo album of the Yahoo Open Hack. A developer event I found smaller and more personal then let's say f8 or Google I/O....

Following the lead of Facebook and other companies of the Web 2.0 vanguard, Yahoo took a big step toward opening itself up to third-party applications Friday. Independent applications have been immensely popular on Facebook since the startup offered access...

Imagine an Internet company, such as Yahoo, collecting personal information on its users and making that data available to other people and third party developers. Now stop imagining. Yahoo on Friday kicked off its ambitious “Open Strategy,” part of...

(credit: TechFever Network) Mark and I are at Yahoo's Silicon Valley campus in Sunnyvale to cover the Web company's "Open Hack" event. Think of Open Hack as Yahoo's developer conference - although the company has until this day not...

(credit: TechFever Network) It is not hard these days to find companies with their sights set on GrandCentral. GrandCentral, of course, is the Google-owned company that hopes to simplify telephone communications by giving people one number and the ability...

Today, Sunny Gosain (pictured), the VP of Development of software developer Compiere shared with me his perspective on Google's new web browser. Fastest! So let's start with the good news. For the open source ERP developer, Google Chrome is...

The popular social-networking destination decided this week to migrate the rest of its users to its new site design. Almost 30 million of Facebook’s 100 million users already use the new design, which the company describes as cleaner and...

Americans viewed 11.4 billion online videos during July, 5 billion of which were found on YouTube, according to comScore. Three in four people online tuned into at least one clip and, in total, Americans spent 558 million hours behind...

The personal computer appears to resist the pull of this year’s worldwide economic downturn. Research firm IDC said it now sees growth for the year of 15.7 percent in shipments from manufacturers. The firm had anticipated 15.2 percent in...

(credit: TechCrunch) One might think so. But that didn’t keep a handful of entrepreneurs from promoting sites they hope will prove otherwise. Several picked unlikely niches to address. Footnote plans to use Social Security death records to create profiles...

Following Sun Microsystems' virtualisation announcement this morning, I sat down with Nathan Brookwood, analyst at Insight64, to talk about Intel's 6-cores server processor dubbed Dunnington that the chip maker will announce next Monday in San Francisco. Impressive performance chip......

Making money from and sense of new media on the Web – video, photos and social interactions – may be the job of the next generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Up to now, few startups have figured out how...

(credit: TechCrunch) If one thing is clear at this year’s TechCrunch50 it is that Web 2.0 is permeating the business world. Entrepreneurs, having watched the rapid adoption of consumer Web sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, are hatching...

Last but certainly not least for all the iPhone 3G users, is the new software update dubbed OS X 2.1 that Steve Jobs announced for this Friday for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. The patch will cost $9.99...

Jobs boasted that the company is unveiling a new iPod Touch, a thinner device with built-in volume controls on its side (the #1 request Apple got for the iPod Touch). The device also has a speaker. Apple's new iPod...

Apple introduced a sleek new oval iPod Nano for the Christmas season. The device has a large curved screen and is the thinnest iPod the company has made. It also includes an accelerometer - just like the iPhone! -...

An energetic Jobs, who did look thin but healthier, said NBC is bringing some of its top television programming back to iTunes, including the popular Heros and 30Rock and in HD. With over 8.5 million songs available, 125,000 podcasts,...

Uberpulse Editor at Large, Mark Boslet, is at Apple's music event in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts. Believe it or not (probably not as you've been at one of these launch events or at Steve Jobs'...

After a great line up of innovative products this morning, the afternoon sessions looked kind of average. Maverick's demo came out of the lot though with a software application that prevents unwanted access to a mobile handset data. For...

(credit: TechCrunch) Is the long-hoped-for merger of Hollywood sparkle and Internet ubiquity finally taking place? Don’t count on it. Yet, several companies took significant steps toward bringing studio-quality productions to this Web this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in...

(credit: TechFever Network) During the "head to head" session (pictured), AllThingsD.com executive editors, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg responded to VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi question on why both Dow Jones (the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and a subsidiary...

If you want a glimpse of what’s coming next, stop by the TechCrunch50 conference (photo courtesy of TechCrunch) this week in San Francisco. Young (very young) Internet startups of every ilk unveiled an astonishing array of upcoming products and...

(credit: TechFever Network) Plastic Logic was for me the most innovative company that presented this morning. That was actually a very difficult pick because the others in the list were also very good. The Mountain View, CA, start-up showed...

The search giant says it already does this for books and maps. “Now we’re going to do this with newspapers,” said Marissa Mayer (pictured), vice president of search products and user experience. “I think this is really good for...

(credit: TechFever Network) Close to the end of the morning sessions, the name of TechCrunch, the anti-DEMO tradeshow, was finally out! Hopefully for the last time quipped DEMO producer Chris Shipley. It's a little know secret that the TechCrunch50...

DEMO producer Chris Shipley (pictured) kicked the fall event touting the end of the Web 2.0 era, what she also refers as the third cycle of the Internet. An interesting thought as, back in San Francisco, 52 Web 2.0...

At the main DEMO conference earlier this year, producer Chris Shipley and crew kicked-off the tech show with a hip dance routine. And that's all it needed to start a brand new tradition: the DEMO dance! Check out below...

For the past few years, Fall means for me going to DEMO... Yes, again! It used to be a much smaller cousin of the "real" Demo happening earlier in the year and dubbed DEMO Mobile. Renamed DEMOfall 2 years...

Musinaut hopes to remake the world of online music by bringing new interactivity to downloaded songs. The Paris company is to launch on Monday a new format for online compositions – MXP4 – that it says will give musicians...

Fast growing startup EchoSign will unveil a new version of its software by the end of the month, said Eran Aloni, head of product management. The Silicon Valley startup, which exhibited this week at the Office 2.0 conference, now has...

Innovation in back in vogue again in Silicon Valley, entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is quick to say. “I’m so bullish on the valley. I’m so bullish on the innovation happening right now,” he said Thursday during an appearance at the...

Google’s introduction of its browser Chrome could prove a milestone in the migration of applications from the desktop to the Web, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen (pictured) said Thursday in an interview with Condé Nast Portfolio contributing editor, Kevin...

Cisco Systems has long talked about using social networking to expand communications among its employees and partners. Now it is poised to make good on its promise. The company’s first internal social networking site is expected to be live by...

Google has 10 million active users of its online Docs and 500,000 businesses, Product Management Director Matt Glotzbach said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of them are paid users, Glotzbach said at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. “Adoption...

Cloud computing is among the most popular buzz word in computing today. Put a software application online, tap into it over the Internet and you’ve joined the latest paradigm shift in the business. Doing so can save money and time...

Online applications offering word processing, spreadsheets and personal productivity will make big desktop programs like Microsoft’s Office obsolete within ten years. So claims Sridhar Vembu, whose online applications company, Zoho, reach 1 million registered users in late August. Zoho...

Microsoft reached for its virtual wallet in June, becoming the largest buyer of display advertising on the Net, according to comScore. The company was followed by the University of Phoenix, Experian and United Online. Microsoft posted 5.5 billion display...

The global economic slowdown still hasn’t put a noticeable dent in semiconductor growth – much to the relief of high-tech companies. Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by 7.6 percent to $22.2 billion in July, according to the Semiconductor Industry...

You might imagine Google’s introduction of its shiny new Chrome browser would tarnish its relationship with the upstart browser Firefox. Not true, Google executives said Tuesday even as they trumpeted the speed and capabilities of Chrome, now available in a...

Think of Google’s market place as the World Wide Web. If its Chrome browser makes the Web run faster, then the search giant benefits by having more of its applications run and more users come to its search page....

Of course, search giant Google hopes to put a dent into Microsoft’s dominance of browsing software with its introduction of the Chrome browser Tuesday. And it wants more control over the access to search from desktop computers. But to hear...