Tech author to reveal what your phone knows about you
Authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel detail the convergence of five forces: social media, mobile computing, data, sensors and location. Those technologies combine to give technology companies a picture of who you are, where you are, what you’re doing and what your preferences are with a degree of accuracy previously unimaginable.
In shape for an IPO: Mindbody launches wellness program
After years of development, San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody is rolling out a major corporate wellness platform as it marches toward an initial public offering.
Get a move on: StartupWeekend winner taps sharing economy for moving
Moving is never fun, but a Santa Barbara startup is hoping to make it a little less stressful by connecting people who need to move with nearby truck owners looking to earn extra money. NextMover bills its service, which launched earlier this year, as “your friend with a truck.”
Ansible makes it easy to crack the code in the cloud
Whether you call it software-as-a-service or the cloud, Web-hosted code has been around for nearly a decade and has delivered on two key promises: As an end user, your browser is connected to a vastly more powerful computer than you could otherwise afford, and you’re always running the latest version of the software because it’s been updated across all servers. But up there in the cloud, a lot of work is going on behind the scenes.
SCOTUS ruling was key to firm’s patent victory
With a late-in-the-game assist from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, FindTheBest has won the right to recover its costs in what a federal judge called a “frivolous” and “objectively unreasonable” patent lawsuit brought against it.
