Amit Chowdhry | July 22, 2010 | 619 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Dell Inc.
Dell is warning a small number of customers that they have shipped a small number of customers that the PowerEdge R410 server motherboards may have malicious software.
“The potential issue involves a small number of PowerEdge server motherboards sent out through service dispatches that may contain malware,” stated Dell on
a support forum. “This malware code has been detected on the embedded server management firmware.”
Amit Chowdhry | July 22, 2010 | 816 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Etsy, Jon Dorfman, Szymon Weglarski
Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers that live in Brooklyn launched a new product on Etsy called the Antenn-aid. Antenn-aids are little bandages in different colors.
Szymon and Jon put the product up for sale on Friday and they are receiving an order every minute. “We haven’t done any official testing, but it does seem to improve the antenna problem,” said Weglarski. “You don’t drop as many bars as it’s really about separating metal from flesh.” Clever idea, guys. [
New York Times]
Amit Chowdhry | July 22, 2010 | 1,905 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Founders Fund, Peter Thiel
Founders Fund, the venture capital company that has invested in Facebook, Spotify, and SpaceX has closed a third venture fund. The Founders Fund III LP and the other funds were oversubscribed, reaching a firm cap of $250 million in commitments. The Fund III suite is the company’s largest fund yet. Founders Fund is managed by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, and Sean Parker. The full press release is below:
Amit Chowdhry | July 20, 2010 | 10,864 views | 3 Comments
Categorized under Flickr, Lists
One of Yahoo!’s most powerful brands is Flickr. Flickr is a social network tailored towards photographers and photography enthusiasts. There is a whole Flickr ecosystem built around the APIs too. There’s so many of them that it is hard to keep count. Don’t fret, I have compiled a list of 80 tools and games for Flickr pictures management, downloading, uploading, sharing, etc. Check out the list below. You will not be disappointed.
Amit Chowdhry | July 20, 2010 | 858 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under al-Qaeda, Blogetery.com, BurstNet, Federal Bureau of Investigation
According to a report by CNET, Blogetery.com was shut down for allegedly hosting al-Qaeda materials. Initially details were scarce about why WordPress platform and hosting company Blogetery.com was shut down, taking out 70,000 blogs with them. BurstNet CTO Joe Marr said that FBI agents informed executives that al-Qaeda was distributing materials on Blogetery servers that included names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda.
Amit Chowdhry | July 20, 2010 | 958 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Amazon, Amazon.com, Kindle
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced that the sales of e-books for their Kindle e-reader product has outsold the number of the hardcover books during the last three months. Amazon.com sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books.
Amit Chowdhry | July 20, 2010 | 755 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Nokia Corporation, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Nokia Corporation has launched a search to find a new CEO. As the head of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is having a hard time gaining traction in the smartphone market. “They are serious about making a change,” said a source with the WSJ. The board members at Nokia are “supposed to make a decision by the end of the month,” added the source. Kallasuvo has been CEO of the company since 2006. [WSJ]
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