Richard Adhikari

So here I am pulling into the parking lot of the building where TechCrunch50 is being held, and racing into this shiny multi-story building. I stop a passing security guard and ask him where the conference is being held. “Over there,” he says, pointing across the lot at a row of squat, burnt-red structures that […]

SAN FRANCISCO – MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe unveiled plans today for ambitious new services the social networking site will launch soon. He made the disclosures during an open interview with TechCrunch co-founder Michael Arrington at TechCrunch50. Only five months after announcing MySpace Music, its long-awaited joint music venture with major record labels, MySpace […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Parents, watch your wallets — as companies struggle to find new markets in this shrinking economy, they are beginning to focus more on kids. Today, for instance, four startups presented their Web applications for the young at the morning panel of TechCrunch50, a conference to help launch technology startups. One of these […]

A Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) white paper suggesting that children get digital identity cards to verify their age and better protect them online. But not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach. “It’s not 100 percent clear to me that there’s a compelling reason to validate the age of kids going to a social networking site,” […]

Just six months after Microsoft threw open worldwide beta testing of Office Live Workspace, the online storage and collaboration service has rung up more than one million users, the company said. Using the free service, which the company (NASDAQ: MSFT) launched in October as a private beta, Microsoft Office users can upload and store their […]

At the Office 2.0 conference today, held in San Francisco, Google executive Matthew Glotzbach said during his keynote speech that iPhone access to applications on the the cloud has transformed the mobile landscape. “I live almost exclusively in the cloud, and can access all my documents, flip through this presentation I’m making, plan for meetings, all […]

Productivity guru David Allen Source: Office 2.0 SAN FRANCISCO — Collaboration, which is at the heart of the new office-productivity applications hitting the market known as Office 2.0 tools, will make it much easier to get things done, management consultant David Allen said in his keynote speech at the Office 2.0 conference today. As these […]

Moving to strengthen its position as a vendor of secure enterprise communications solutions, Secure Computing (NASDAQ: SCUR) announced Wednesday the acquisition of Securify, which provides identity-based monitoring solutions tying user behavior on the network to business systems. The combination of the two companies’ technologies will let users detect unauthorized behavior on corporate networks in real […]

VMware’s announcement today that it has received Microsoft’s seal of approval, under the latter’s Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) came as no surprise.   While VMware remains in fear of Microsoft’s entry into the virtualization market and its new CEO Paul Maritz, a Microsoft alumnus noted for his pugnacity, has publicly vowed to fight Microsoft tooth […]

Continuing its efforts to wrest market share from incumbent VMware, Microsoft is planning to hold a virtualization event focusing on its own solutions, in Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 8 — exactly one week before VMware’s user conference, VMworld 2008, opens in Las Vegas. The aim for Microsoft’s “Get Virtual Now” event is to show how the […]

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Oracle continues efforts to create a suite of application management tools by buying up smaller software vendors, today announcing that it would purchase ClearApp, which makes software to manage applications in service-oriented architectures (SOA) . Mountain View, Calif.-based ClearApp’s software automatically discovers what applications are running and what they link to, and monitors their performance. […]