Robert Scoble

F5 Joins OpenStack Community

F5's participation to expand customers' cloud deployment choices STORY HIGHLIGHTS -- F5 is an official Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. -- By providing direct support for the OpenStack cloud platform and technical community, F5 is helping broaden the range of choices for customers implementing private and public clouds.

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131015-902436.html

Aviate: an always-changing, intelligent home screen for Android

"We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it's useful," reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacement launcher for Android available today in private beta. It sounds almost exactly like the tagline of Google Now, and that's no coincidence - Aviate co-founders Paul Montoy-Wilson and William Choi used to work for Google.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/15/4839162/aviate-android-home-screen-app-google-now

Square launches Cash, a peer-to-peer payments service that's incredibly simply to use

Square officially took the wraps off its planned peer-to-peer payments service Square Cash today, and the results are quite impressive - it isn't just creating a PayPal clone. It's streamlined the transaction to its bare minimum of two elements: both the payer and payee each an email address and a debit card.

http://wp.me/p10LZV-2Xqc