Tag archive: Allen

Speaking at the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated that Google's newly-announced Chrome OS means that he will have to speak with Apple about how his role on the Apple Board of Directors might change. Google's Chrome OS will presumably be in direct competition with Apple's own Mac OS X operating system products. The position not only creates… Read More

Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, made a veritable fortune before he left the company. Since then, he’s been involved in a number of ventures around Seattle, and bankrolled start-ups through his Vulcan investment company. Now Allen is dipping his toe into software. According to the Seattle Times, he has a new company called Xiant, which has released the beta of its first product, Xiant Filer, an e-mail sorting program that… Read More

Billionaire entrepreneur and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in the FCC's upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, going up against major telecommunications providers as well as Internet giant Google. Allen's application comes via his investment company Vulcan Capital, which has been behind everything from genetics research to the Portland Trailblazers to Seattle's Experience Music Project. Vulcan's… Read More

Imaging company Epson has announced its new Stylus C120, which the company claims is the world's fastest inkjet printer, offering 37 page-per-minute speeds for black, and 20 ppm for color printing in draft mode. Of course, Epson is only comparing the C120 to inkjet printers available for under $160—but that's not unreasonable considering the C120′s suggested price is just $89.99. “People who are thinking… Read More

One of the things Apple does vastly better than Microsoft is move their users between operating system versions. With the one exception of a massive installed base bath they took when they moved to OSX, losing about half of their market at the turn of the century (these were folks that probably weren’t buying product anyway), Apple has been well ahead of Microsoft in terms of installed base migrations. To be fair, a lot of… Read More

The model of online film distribution is one still struggling to gain footing between bandwidth issues, lack of selection and potential copyright problems. Enter into this market Clickstar: a new, soon to be available online film service formed as a joint venture between Intel and Morgan Freeman's film production company Revelations Entertainment. The idea of Clickstar, according to an announcement today at the Allen & Company Sun… Read More

On the eve of the anniversary of September 11 and the blackout of 2003, nearly 25 percent of all businesses in New York have not begun to plan for business disruptions, according to a new report released today by the Partnership for Public Warning and AT&T. This makes New York, and, surprisingly, Washington, D.C., businesses among the least prepared cities in the nation, trailing South Florida by 10 points. The report, “Disaster… Read More

The lawsuits, filed in federal courts around the country, targeted people who make songs on their computers available to others online — making a distinction between people who download and those who distribute. The suits did not name Internet file-sharing services like Kazaa, Gnutella and Grokster, which enable the downloading of millions of songs. By late Monday, no suits had been filed in Sacramento, but about 20 were filed in… Read More