Stories about: Firefly

It's not enough to be a hot code jockey anymore. There are thousands in India and China -- not to mention U.S.-based outsourcers -- just waiting to take your job.

Want a great job at a hot startup? Of course, you do. And there haven't been this many opportunities since the dot com bubble burst. Just ask Renaud Laplanche, CEO of LendingClub.com in California: "You're in the driver's seat. So think about the place you'd like to work at for the next few years and choose wisely," he says.

Why not infuse the organic simplicity of MySpace-like social networking into the enterprise knowledge management world? That was the question Andy McLoughlin and Alastair Mitchell posed to one another a year ago. Their answer was huddle.net, a burgeoning Web-based project collaboration solution.

USB flash memory drives are experiencing an increase in product failures as a result of quality-control problems, and the wildly popular replacements for floppy disks could be facing other problems related to fragmentation, according to industry experts.

Microsoft is recasting ambitions for its .Net Passport identification system, saying the service now will be limited to its own online offerings and those of close partners. Microsoft no longer sees Passport as a single sign-on system for the Web at large, a spokeswoman said.

Macromedia on Tuesday plans to announce Macromedia Flash MX Data Connection Kit, which provides pre-built connections to data sources for the purpose of boosting development of data-aware Internet applications, the company said.

Apple Computer on Thursday announced it bought Zayante, a privately held FireWire technology design company, for an undisclosed sum.

Several companies will be introducing and showing off their products at the upcoming MacExpo.

A silicon valley startup that debuted Monday is hoping to provide e-tailers the user information they need to strategically target ads and content without trampling on users' privacy rights.

There's a manhunt in Britain - for the chief exec of AltaVista U.K. Andy Mitchell, appointed to run the company's British subsidiary in January, is absent from his post for the second time this summer, and his timing couldn't be worse.