HP, Intel, and Yahoo are colloborating with academics and the National Science Foundation to create a "global data centre" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing. read more » DiscussBury
Calling it the Cloud Computing Test Bed, HP, Intel and Yahoo today announced a multi-datacenter testing environment to promote internet-scale open source collaboration. read more » DiscussBury
Frederic Lardinois reports on the surprising developments in the ongoing soap opera between Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn. Yahoo has agreed to give Icahn a seat on the board. read more » DiscussBury
Sarah Perez reports, "Online self-publishing firm Lulu and social document sharing site Scribd have just announced a partnership in which Lulu will begin using Scribd's iPaper viewer to display Lulu's free e-books online at the lulu.com web site." read more » DiscussBury
Erick Schonfeld begins hawking TechCrunch50 tickets and gives an overview of some of the new judges joining the TechCrunch50 panel. read more » DiscussBury
Vodafone stays in background of $28bn dealVerizon's parent Vodafone has confirmed the second largest mobile operator in the US will soon take the top spot by acquiring Alltel for a total of $28.1bn.… read more » DiscussBury
Marshall Kirkpatrick adds one in a long string of voices on Twitter's unreliability and FriendFeed's possibility as a replacement. read more » DiscussBury
Steve Lohr reports on a new World Community Grid project (led by IBM) which will search for hybrid rice combinations offering higher yields and more resiliency. read more » DiscussBury