Los Angeles-based hosting provider DreamHost , the provider of web hosting and managed hosting services, is planning a new, open source software spinout, the firm revealed this week, as it looks to leverage its work on the Ceph open source project for distributed storage. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. MORE >>

According to reports, it is planning to launch its own, competing microblogging service. The news comes via a report last night from CNN. ubermedia twitter client software idealab twidroid twidroydUberMedia has not officially announced any details of its plan. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

Irvine-based Paragon Software Group , the developer of backup and disaster recovery software, reports today that the firm's software is now orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station. paragon software backup disaster recovery data storage nasa space spaceflight shuttleREAD MORE>>. MORE >>

According to a report today from VentureWire, Aliso Viejo-based Predixion Software has added $3M to the firm's Series A funding round, from Palomar Ventures. Predixion is developing data mining and analytics software, and is headed by Simon Arkell, formerly of Triton Pacific Capital Partners and Gramercy Ventures. MORE >>