Facebook Wednesday threw its software developers a bone, releasing a “roadmap” of forthcoming features to help them plan their products. They include new ways for software applications, like games, to messages Facebook users when their friends want to play Scrabble, for instance.
The medical waistband is the latest front in the battle among smart-phone makers for the business customer.
Pagers have long reigned in hospitals, where they are prized for their dependability. But with doctors treating more patients and hospitals facing pressure to be more efficient, companies like Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. see an opportunity to peddle their devices.
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd said his company was poised to grow faster than the overall technology market amid signs spending on several critical H-P products was beginning to pick up.
Tatyana Ray has more than 1,200 Facebook friends, sends 600 texts a month and participated in four student clubs during the year and a half she attended high school online, through a program affiliated with Stanford University.
Clearwire today announced the launch of its a developer version of 4G service in the Bay Area. The developer version of the WiMax-based network covers “more than 20 square miles” in Santa Clara, Mountain View and “parts of downtown” Palto Alto.
About two dozen companies building applications on Facebook went fishing for cash from Silicon Valley investors on Tuesday.
The companies, ranging from music discovery software to mobile virtual worlds, have all received a small amount of funding from Facebook’s fbFund, a $10 million seed fund that Facebook and two of its backers–Accel Partners and Founders Fund–dole out annually.
Facebook said it will fight a countersuit filed by Power.com, saying the company puts Facebook’s member information at risk.
Power.com bills itself as a “social inter-networking site,” in which users can sign on to their other social accounts, such as Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace. It has some 8 million users.
Metacafe, seeking to reach more “media-snacking” consumers, is launching a section of its video site devoted to short clips from “Nurse Jackie,” “Weeds,” “Big Brother” and other television shows.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company, which is funded by Highland Capital Partners and DAG Ventures, focuses on what it sees as a middle ground between YouTube and Hulu — short-form videos that are professionally produced or poised to go viral — said its chief executive, Erick Hachenburg, a former Electronics Arts executive.
When the Internet and telecom bubble burst, Silicon Valley jobs evaporated: by 2005, California’s Santa Clara County–which includes San Jose, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Mountain View and other tech-focused towns–had given up more than 20 percent of its total job base, a loss of over 200,000 jobs. So how bad will it get this time around?
A quick update on Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales in in the company’s two Palo Alto stores.
I stopped by the Apple Store in the Stanford Shopping Center about 9:15 a.m. this morning. There were about 150 people in a line snaking through the mall; the store seemed to be letting people in at a slow but steady pace, with about 10-15 salespeople processing orders. At this store, as at the University Avenue store, a number of customers said there were server issues that slowed the process earlier in the day.
It’s now a little about 11:30 p.m. here in Palo Alto, and time for an Apple (AAPL) iPhone 3G line waiting update.
Over the last hour or so, I visited four stores that will be selling the iPhone starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow:
At the AT&T store on Grant Road in Mountain View, there was not a soul in line as of 9:55 p.m. The place was deserted.
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