Posts Tagged with ‘competition’

Most of the time I am a big fan of everything Russian and a loyal supporter of the majority of the companies and products originating from my country - with a few rare exceptions. But sometimes Russian internet companies offer paradoxical ideas that I simply can’t grasp even after thinking them over for a while. Today is one of such days as I got to know about one of the two largest Russian social networks, Odnoklassniki.ru, coming up with a [...]

Approximately 34 thousand of students in the southwest Florida school district have been affected by a security hole and had their private information leaked online. All the students used Princeton Review program to study for annual assessment test.
After the test preparation company switched to a new hosting provider all the information students provided the program with leaked online, including their birthdays, ethnicity, gender, state ID (which in Florida is very similar to social security number) and scores in the tests [...]

The LeWeb 3 conference startup competition we highlighted earlier this week commenced yesterday. And oh how unlucky we’ve been. All of the budding companies we’ve mentioned so far have failed to make it to the awards ceremony.
Nevertheless, winners have emerged from the feisty Parisian melee that has ensued for the past 24 hours or so. Without further adieu, we bring you some brief profiles of the last startups standing.
We’ll begin from the bottom, m’kay? Third place: G.ho.st. Which, I’m sure [...]

Yahoo!, in a seeming bid to make its name more attractive to greater swaths of developers throughout the world, debuted last year the first in its series of Open Hack Day events in September in its hometown of Sunnyvale, California, followed by a London event in June of this year, and most recently at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India, last weekend.
The Asian edition of Open Hack Day, held on October 5th, brought together roughly “100 Web developers, who toiled [...]

For years, companies and individuals involved with the development of both the business and residential infrastructures enabling the deployment of widespread Internet access in the US have been admitting that they haven’t quite constructed the most state-of-the-art network(s) in the world. Average speeds of downstream and upstream transfers are all but snail-like in comparison to those recorded in Japan, South Korea, and several countries residing within the European continent.
The most pressing issue facing the US in terms of technological advancement [...]

iPhone is big even though it has not been released yet. But it will be released soon (June, 29 in case you have not heard this date yet) and I guess it will be even bigger when it is actually available. Besides, iPhone is the most Web 2.0-ish gadget we have heard of recently. Profy is always willing to give our readers the best of Web 2.0. And here is our next move in this direction. This summer you will [...]

On a very slow day I finally found a very interesting story about the lawsuit against Statsaholic by Alexa. Alexa is suing Ron Hornbaker the developer of Statsaholic over the domain name Alexaholic, which was Hornbaker's original domain for the feature filled ranking site.
The depth of the story was reported by TechCrunch back in March, but essentially Statsaholic began to gain popularity because of their features, but changed their name and stopped using the conflicting Alexaholic domain to appease Amazon. Amazon got [...]