Why should Facebook or Ning earn the money if you bring the audience? Backplane wants to put that cash in your pocket. That’s why it’s pivoting from building social networks for big brands and ...

The advent of switch fabric interconnect (SFI) technology has added a new degree of complexity to the world of backplane design, revealing a need for thorough analysis and understanding of traffic ...

For at least a decade the question on the table has been whether electrical interconnect speeds could keep pace with the ever-increasing capacity and bandwidth of telecommunication switches, routers ...

You may have heard the buzz by now about a young startup that’s being fueled by some pretty impressive star power, including the likes of the one and only Lady Gaga. The project, called Backplane, was ...

Backplane, the startup behind Lady Gaga’s social network (LittleMonsters.com, currently in private beta), this morning announced that it has closed its Series A funding round, with a slew of ...

The problem of persistent and reliable storage plagues us all. There are a myriad of solutions, some more expensive than others, but a dedicated and redundant network attached storage solution is ...

Apple is reportedly evaluating a new OLED display technology called HMO that promises better battery life and lower ...

It’s about time for an update for Hackaday’s latest project – a modern retrocomputer based on the Motorola 68000 CPU. In this update, we’ll be taking a look at the enclosure, the backplane itself, and ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

Just when things were starting to look up in Silicon Valley with the announcement of 2016’s first tech I.P.O., another start-up has met its demise. Backplane, the Lady Gaga–backed and promoted ...