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...