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Reminder: Tech Webinar on Security for Web Application
Reminder, mark you callendar: Wednesday January 27th, Join the Sun Startup Essentials Webinar on Security for Web Applications. A key success factor for Web startups is to protect their applications and data from different security thre...
Huddle looking to recruit in UK and US
Huddle is a startup based in the good old UK that is growing, thriving and expanding so if you want to work somewhere fun and do some great stuff go and apply now... We are always looking for passionate, ambitious and talented people to work...
Last.fm - How do they stream all that data ?
Last.fm is a great case of a Sun Startup Essential customer starting off two years ago by discussing their architecture, and how could Sun help them as a startup, well two years down the line we have saved them money, reduced their output and hel...
Host Your Java Apps on the Java Store Beta
Using Virtualization for Securing MySQL
For those of you using MySQL, I just posted an article on how to secure it using virtualization features from OpenSolaris. The solution described can help in the face of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. ...
7 Twitter Dos and Don\'ts Every Startup Should Know
Twitter is the prototypical social network, the name on everybody's tongue, and the core of a successful social media presence. Knowing how to build your following -- and avoid the potential pitfalls -- is key to turning your tweets into traffic. ...
LeWeb Picks Most Promising Startups in Europe
Each year, the LeWeb startup contest brings together the best of Europe's startup community to decide which will be named the crème de la crème. The competition, which was co-organized by TechCrunch Europe, took place in Paris thi...
Cmypitch Live - Sun Startup Essentials Sponsored Event
London and Dublin last week. 70-plus investors, 14 companies pitching, €2.72m sought in Ireland. £2.5m sought in London. cmypitch Live bore witness to some excellent early stage businesses seeking finance. From an expanding salad...
New NetBeans 6.8 Supports PHP 5.3, JavaFX, and a lot more!
The NetBeans(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.8 is now available from Sun and the NetBeans community. You can download the NetBeans IDE 6.8 at www.netbeans.org. Key Updates PHP Support: T...
Tweetminster - New Search Engine - A great #sunstartupessentials customer
Tweetminster, the media utility that connects people to UK politics has recently launched Tweetminster Search– a sentiment engine to measure the pulse of UK politics in real time.Tweetminster Search is a new way to find, interact with and make ...
Tech Webinar: Security for Web Application
Wednesday January 27th, Join the Sun Startup Essentials Webinar on Security for Web Applications....
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Affordable Load Testing
By Shanti Subramanyam Commercial tools for load testing cost a pile of money, and free tools don't have the necessary functionality. Luckily, Faban solves both these problems. Faban is two things: A fram...
Getapp launches now - Ex Sun Employees startups
We have just launched www.getapp.com and would like to have members of the Startup Essential Community as Beta users. GetApp.com is a B2B vertical search engine for Enterprise Applications buyers and providers. It aims to be a very cost efficien...
Startup of the Day : UShareSoft
Can you introduce the team ?UShareSoft has been created by 3 former Sun employees. After a one-year incubation period in the GRAIN organization, UShareSoft was officially created in August 2008. That same year, the technology developed inhouse re...
VirtualBox Factory: HowTo Automate VBox Provisioning in a Cloud
How to automate VirtualBox provisioning in a cloud-like environment and use it as a foundation for virtualized desktops....
Rummble - Another Great Sun Startup Essentials Customer
About Rummble Rummble makes it as easy to find people and places nearby you’ll love. As a location based social search and discovery tool, Rummbles enables users to find personalised recommendations for a location very quickly. Instead of a...
Startup Weekend London
Startup Weekend, phew what a weekend it was !!! 58 hours where attendees were from varied backgrounds such as "developers, startup entrepreneurs,business managers, marketing peeps, graphic artists and more" but what they all did ...
Free Startup Webinar: An Introduction to Sun\'s Developer Collaboration
With over 30,000 members and 6,000 projects, Project Kenai is an open service from Sun Microsystems that allows you to host your open source and closed source projects and code, and collaborate with distributed teams. With Project Kenai,...
Do friends make good business partners ?
When it comes to picking partners, many see their friends as the obvious choice to share in making your dreams into reality. Business isn't all sunny days, however, and the best way to weather the storms with your friendships intact is to start out w...
Take the PayPal Developer Challenge and win up to $150,000!
PayPal has launched a new set of APIs that allow developers to embed payment technology into applications. This is a whole new way of making money from your apps. Learn more at x.com, PayPal’s developer hub where you can grab code, p...
Some beautiful x86 Servers for you - Dual Core/2 Gig Mem/250 Gig SATA Disc £260/€300
X86 Servers from £260/€300 - Enterprise class for Startups...
Jobs, jobs, and more jobs pt3
Following on from the last two startup job postings here are some more hot off the press! Rummble is hiring Javascript/CSS/XHTML engineers and developers Click Rummble is also looking for Java experts Click Simon May is lookin...
Webinar Security for MySQL and Web Application
We are planning on a Webinar in January about security for Web applications...
Startup Bonanza - Roll up and get Enterprise class servers now.....
X4150 with 2 x Quad Core E5450 CPU & 4GB RAM/4 x SAS Drives/2 x PSU £1,200.00/€140...
Seven Ways to Get Your Startup Noticed by the Media
When you officially launch your startup and send out a flurry of press releases, the silence can be deafening while you wait for the phone to ring and reporters to call you. Here are some tips to improve your chances of getting noticed by the media....
Tweetmeme rolls out more features and options - Twitter Advertising
A blog advertised by Nick Halsteqd: "I wanted to share some fascinating numbers on how content gets disseminated across twitter via Retweets, we recently launched our own Analytics package that allows individual stories to be analysed in great d...
How can Sun Startup Essentials help you ? Small Business, Startup we can help you
Sun Startup Essentials - How can Sun Microsystems help you ? from stewart townsend on Vimeo. Learn how Sun Startup Essentials can help you if you are a company less than 6 years old, with 150 employees or less. ...
Jobs, jobs, and more jobs pt2
Following on from my previous job posting here I'm happy to announce some more startup vacancies: Worldeka hiring an intern for community development Click Huddle hiring an intern for Commercial experience Click Jes...
Roll up, Roll up Servers from £260 - MySQL, Virtualization, Windows, Linux and Solaris - 1RU and all for £1050 - Startups we love you
X4150 Server for Startups - Roll up, Roll up now - Clearance Remanufactured stock for you at silly prices....
