An area in Scotland that has become known for its growing number of high-tech companies. It is part of central Scotland running east and west between Edinburgh and Glasgow and a bit farther in each direction. See Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Forest, Bit Valley and Siliwood.
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- Silicon Valley's gender gap
- I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her why there are so few, and now fewer--with Diane Greene out as CEO of VMware--women in senior...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0
- San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches outdoors. Today, Powerset was in charge of Lunch 2.0, a "social phenomenon referring to a migration of...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Silicon Valley's Judy Estrin warns we are running out of innovation
- I recently met with Judy Estrin, a former CTO at Cisco, and one of Silicon Valley's top serial entrepreneurs. Since the dotcom bubble burst she has been concerned that Silicon Valley has not been investing enough in startups pioneering innovative technologies. She warns that we are living...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- News items 2008-09-03
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- News items 2008-09-03
- iPhone's remote deletions may help crooks cover tracks
- Certain features of increasingly widespread enterprise smartphones may aid criminals in hiding incriminating evidence, says the UK's Serious Fraud Office. Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the UK's Serious...
- News items 2008-09-03
- Ruminating on Chrome
- On an otherwise non news day, the comic book launch of Chrome by Google has got the digital ether all aglow with excitement. I can only shrug. Despite the thinking this is 'big news' and garnering mainstream media attention at both the WSJ and the UK's Guardian, I can't see...
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Google-Yahoo to Washington: We're moving forward.
- I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. Tally one up for the geeks this week, who basically told Washington, "Yeah, you really don't matter." ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- A 'Social Silicon Valley'
- Brazilian Journalist Gilberto Dilmenstein has transformed Sao Paulo's Villa Madelena neighborhood from one filled with crime to one filled with learning.
- Videos 2008-08-27
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Apple iPhone ad banned
- The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to "all parts of the Internet" on their Apple device. The Advertising Standards Authority ASA has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to "all parts of the Internet" on their...
- News items 2008-08-27
- News to know: Psystar vs. Apple; WGA; Linux under attack; FAA failure
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: News.com: Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue Sam Diaz: Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit? Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?
- Somewhere in the news coverage of Psystar's countersuit against Apple today, I was reminded of the car analogy I use to help friends and family understand how to buy a computer. Under the hood of a car, everything is the same. There's an engine, transmission, battery and...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?
- Welcome to the week that is the Democratic National Convention followed by another one with the Republican National Convention. We'll get coverage out the wazoo with a heavy dose of the technology implications from our sister site and parent, News.com and CBS News, respectively. While the technology policies of Barack...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- The Perils of Showboating
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
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