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RIM Buys Texas Data Center to Bolster Blackberry
2008-06-09 18:33:00 Data Center Knowledge – Research in Motion (RIMM) has bought a large data center in Plano, Texas to expand the infrastructure for its hugely popular Blackberry device, providing network diversity that may help avert future service outages. RIM has purchased a 150,000 square foot data center in the Legacy Business Park in ... read more More About: Data
T-Mobile Ventures makes strategic investment in Roamware
2008-06-09 18:32:00 GoMo News – T-Mobile makes a strategic investment in Roamware. Roamware? Yes the mobile roaming solution company. They were on the panel that I moderated at the Mobile World Congress 2008. I remember asking, ?what on earth is roamware and why are you on a mobile web 2.0 panel?? The response was ? we have the biggest and best answer for ... read more More About: Investment , T-Mobile , Strategic , T Mobile
How To Embed an RSS Feed On Your Website or Blog?
2008-06-09 18:32:00 Shankar Ganesh’s Tech Blog – Google AJAX Feed API seems to be the quickest way to embed an RSS Feed to your website or blog. Embedding the RSS Feed is quick and simple if you use that tool, and it should just take a few seconds for you to do that. Go here, choose the layout of the embedded RSS feed ... read more More About: Website
iPod Touch, iPhone Slingplayer finally shows its head
2008-06-09 14:18:00 9 to 5 Mac – As we reported way back in January, Slingplayer IS coming to the iPod Touch , iPhone platform. It has been an extremely busy topic on their forums for the past 6 months. Sling has also been hiring iPhone Engineers ... read more More About: Iphone , Ipod , Finally , Head
Agility and Risk Compensation: Exploring the Connection
2008-06-09 14:17:00 bloginfosec.com – In my previous and inaugural column, I introduced the concept of a tradeoff between information security and agility, where agility was defined as ?the capability to change with managed cost and speed.? Information security doesn?t necessarily have to be at odds with agility, but security professionals would be wise to consider the potential impact of ... read more More About: Connection , Risk , Exploring , Agility , Compensation
Vienna failed to migrate to GNULinux: why?
2008-06-09 14:17:00 Free Software Magazine – Several governments and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be answered: why did it happen? The City of Vienna made several crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most ... read more More About: Migrate
A Distinctive Trend in the World of Technology
2008-06-08 20:27:00 The Webquarters – Technology products are (at last) becoming more natural and intuitive. The price of reliability is the pursuit of utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find hard to pay — C.A.R. Hoare* Sure enough, simplicity is really difficult to achieve in building technology ... read more More About: World , The World , Trend
A future without Microsoft
2008-06-08 20:27:00 Free Software Magazine – It?s June 2008, and it?s not a good time to be a Microsoft shareholder or employee. The computing industry is changing very, very quickly, creating new opportunities and killing once-prosperous markets. In this short article, I will outline these changes in relation to free software and Microsoft. If you can think of more changes, or if you don?t agree with some of my forecasts, please let me know ... read more More About: Future
Free Wireless Internet Close To Becoming Reality
2008-06-07 14:16:00 The Mobile Technology Weblog – The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (Kevin Martin) announced yesterday a delay in the voting on his proposal to auction an unused piece of 25 megahertz wireless spectrum. The winning bidder would have to build out a free wireless braodband system to serve half of the U.S. population within four years and 95 percent within 10 years (while filtering out ... read more More About: Internet , Wireless , Reality , Free , Close
Create Extra Partitions From Unused Space In Windows Vista
2008-06-07 14:16:00 Techie Buzz – Most laptops and desktop factory models come built in with only one drive no matter how huge your hard drive is. This can be pretty annoying when you want to re-format your PC, in those cases you may first have to move all your data to a external drive before performing a fresh install. Windows Vista ... read more More About: Space , Windows Vista , Extra
A Technological Singularity: What are the Implications for Free Software?
2008-06-07 01:18:00 Free Software Magazine – I was at another meeting of the Editorial board of the Skibbereen Eagle yesterday. Hopefully you read the outcome of the last one. Some clever clogs suggested that it might be a spiffing wheeze to write something about the possible implications of the much mooted singularity (is that a proper noun, with a capital S?) and what it might mean for the future of both free ... read more More About: Free , Free Software , Implications
How the ZAC Browser Helps Autistic Kids
2008-06-06 23:02:00 T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – Every once in awhile you come across a story that just makes your jaw drop. The latest one I found is called Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic boy. Its the story about how a software developer took matters into his own hands when his 6 year grandson had trouble using the Internet. Six year olds having trouble using the Internet? Hardly seems newsworthy until you know more. You see, ... read more More About: Kids , Browser
Digital Beijing: The Olympic Data Center
2008-06-06 23:01:00 Data Center Knowledge – Digital Beijing , the data center for the 2008 Olympic s, is one of the most interesting pieces of data center architecture youre ever likely to see. The enormous building spans 1.05 million square feet (98,000 square meters) and has been designed to resemble a huge integrated circuit board when… read more More About: Data
Of course there?s risk with Twitter
2008-06-06 17:26:00 Network Security Blog – When I wrote my ?Is Twitter a risk?? post earlier this week, I made some assumptions that obscured my point. Luckily I have people like Joel Esler to tell me that EVERYTHING is a risk to some degree or another. There?s the old joke about the only secure computer is the one you?ve ... read more More About: Risk
iCall – brings seamless switching between GSM and WiFi for the iPhone
2008-06-06 17:25:00 GoMo News – Rating: An operator?s worse nightmare? If you have an iPhone and want to use VOIP as soon as you have a WiFi network in range then iCall may be the answer to your prayers. Features include: Make and receive calls over WiFi, transfer inbound calls from your regular cell minutes to WiFi instantly, access your same address book, customise your voicemail ...“read more”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ r/GomoNews/~3/306040221/ More About: Iphone , Wifi , Switching
The Open Collaboration Revolultion
2008-06-06 17:24:00 Standards Blog – Last week I sent out the latest issue of Standards Today, my bi-monthly eJournal of News, Ideas and Analysis. This time around, my topic is what I call The Open Collaboration Revolution, by which I mean the unprecedented ways in which the Internet and the Web are allowing communities to form around projects of all types. The benefits that can be enjoyed as a result of such collaboration are leading those ... read more
Don’t disable compatibility check in Firefox 3
2008-06-06 14:08:00 Technospot.Net – With more and more features coming in Firefox 3 now it’s also possible to disable Extension compatibility (set extensions.checkUpdateSecurity to false in About:config) check and still use it. However don?t do it. You might ask why ? The point is compatibility check is not only just made to keep your Application working but also ... read more More About: Firefox 3 , Check , Compatibility
Running a GNULinux desktop on the web with Ulteo
2008-06-06 14:07:00 Free Software Magazine – Is it possible to develop full GNU/Linux desktops that run on the web and can therefore be accessed from anywhere? We already have a flavour of this with web-based services such as Google?s Gmail, Google Docs and online storage space but these are run from the user?s own desktop and are restricted to bespoke services. What about full desktops? Enter Ulteo, created by ... read more More About: Running , Desktop
12 Must Have Useful and Free Microsoft Outlook Add-Ins
2008-06-06 14:07:00 Techie Buzz – Microsoft Outlook is one of the most famous desktop email clients which allows you to read emails, schedule appointments, take notes, manage your contacts all from the confines of your desktop. Outlook in itself is quite sufficient for most users but there are quite a few tools which make using Outlook a much better experience. In ... read more More About: Free , Microsoft Outlook
Gmail Gets New Experimental ?20% Time? Features Today
2008-06-06 13:43:00 Techie Buzz – It is a well known fact that Google is a employer that allows their employees to spend 20% of their time doing personal projects. The fruits of many such employees will be soon be made available to Gmail users with 13 new experimental features being added to it. Gmail users should soon start seeing a additional ... read more More About: Time , Features , Today , Experimental
Controversy Erupts Over Secret Cell Phone Tracking
2008-06-06 01:19:00 Geeks are Sexy Technology News You may have been part of a scientific study and not even known it. New word is out this week that researchers used cell phone towers and call records to secretly track every step made by 100,000 people ? without ever getting their permission. The study, conducted by Boston?s Northeastern University, ... read more More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Cell , Secret , Controversy
OS 10.6 code named ?Snow Leopard?
2008-06-06 01:18:00 Appletell – The blogsphere is alive with speculation about Apple?s next operating system, Mac OS v10.6. It just got a little more interesting. Following upon rumors that Apple was prepping a 10.6 release for January 2009 comes even more information, this time by Ars Technica, that Apple has code named the operating system ?Snow Leopard .? ... read more More About: Code
Photos of Moscone – OSX iPhone, OSX Leopard
2008-06-06 01:16:00 9 to 5 Mac – New Photos emerging from Moscone reveal a new branding strategy for Apples OSX. Take a gander: Some things to note: That MAcBook Air is using a 16:9 14 inch display we mentioned earlier. To the right you see the little accelerometer icon. And what is that iPod Touch ... read more More About: Iphone , Leopard
It seems the big Linux projects in Vienna and Munich are about to fail
2008-06-05 22:26:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – The city of Munich (where I live) wanted to move 14,000 computers to Linux . Vienna , which is just a stone?s throw away from Munich, has 30,000 PCs. They never planned to move all their computers to Linux though. The departments there are free to choose which OS they want. There was a lot of stir in the ... read more More About: Projects
Unlimited Internets Days are Numbered
2008-06-05 22:26:00 T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – Remember the days when you could saunter into an airport, buy a ticket to anywhere, and be treated like a king on your flight? Nowadays you better get there a couple of hours early to hurry up and stand in line, only to sit and wait on the plane, packed in with the other sardines. The royal treatment? Youll get the royal something else if you dont go along with whatever they care to dish out. ... read more More About: Days , Unlimited
Yahoo Steps Up Its Data Center Investment
2008-06-05 22:25:00 Data Center Knowledge – Yahoo (YHOO) is continuing to expand its data center network, investing in infrastructure even as the company reportedly continues to talk with Microsoft about resurrecting the deal between the two tech titans. The acceleration of Yahoos data center build-out suggests the company is determined not… read more More About: Investment , Data , Yahoo!
Vodafone buys Alltel
2008-06-05 19:24:00 GoMo News – Vodafone has bought the US operator Alltel for USD 28.1 bn. What do we think? Hmmm. Looking at Mobile Search first – this means that JumpTap can claim Vodafone as a client. Staying with search – Vodafone Verizon has had an agenda with every mobile search operator – which now includes Motricity and Medio. Looking at everything else – Vodafone is ... read more
YouTube Videos Get Interactive
2008-06-05 14:10:00 Techie Buzz – Reading through my daily does of Internet News I came across a really interesting feature added to YouTube. The feature allows users to make their videos more interactive with users allowing the people watching to participate in the actual video. The new features allows users to ... read more More About: Videos , Youtube , Interactive
RIM dominates, Apple gains, Palm falls in smartphone markets
2008-06-05 14:09:00 9 to 5 Mac – Research In Motions BlackBerry remains the darling in corporate America, but recent price cuts and the imminent arrival of enterprise-class support in the iPhone means Apple s a growing contender for corporate purchases. A May ChangeWave survey of 2,049 respondents reveals a still soft corporate technology spending environment in which ... read more More About: Smartphone , Markets , Palm , Falls
Firefox 3 RC2 Available For Download
More articles from this author:2008-06-05 14:08:00 Techie Buzz – Mozilla has made available the Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) today. If you have not yet switched from Firefox 2 I highly suggest you do switch to Firefox 3 RC2 as its much faster and uses lesser memory than Firefox 2. In addition to that there are lots of exciting new features integrated in ... read more More About: Download 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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