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Apple’s iOS 4.1 Actually Usable on the iPhone 3G (Video)

— We reported a few weeks ago that Steve Jobs said an upcoming update would resolve slowdown issues in iOS 4 for iPhone 3G users. We assumed he was referring to Apple’s upcoming iOS 4.1 update, and indeed it looks to speed up iPhone 3G performance, according to this video comparison from Lifehacker. The video demonstra...

Sep 04 09:53:04 pm PDT / NYT > Companies»

Apple’s Ping Tops 1M Users in Two Days, but It’s No Google Buzz

— Apple announced just a few hours ago that it’s new music-centered social network Ping has surpassed 1 million users in a mere two days. While the announcement may seem impressive, if you consider that iTunes has over 160 million accounts tied to credit cards (and certainly a lot more if you include accounts without c...

Sep 03 10:13:05 pm PDT / NYT > Business Computing»

Hiding Behind the Cloud

— A while ago I wrote about Cloud 2.0 and the rapid evolution of the Cloud to incorporate Web 2.0 social networking functionality. The term Cloud 2.0 was coined by Mark Beinhoff when he described the Chatter product SalesForce.com is developing. Cisco have followed this path with the release of Quad. Quad is a product th...

Sep 03 12:19:34 am PDT / Cloud Computing»

Augmented Reality. Will it ever become a part of the marketing technology mix?

— There was a lot of buzz about new visualization techniques back in 2009. About a year ago, Mashable posted on an Apple patent called Apple ID : [it] recognizes an object based on visuals (through the iPhone’s camera), a RFID reader or through GPS, and then fetches the data from relat...

Sep 01 05:17:00 am PDT / CloudAve »

Geospatial Cloud Computing In Support Of National Policy

— A few weeks ago I once again had the pleasure of participating in a private discussion on cloud computing with Mr. Vivek Kundra. What struck me in this most recent meeting was his views on the need to infuse geospatial information into the national policy decision making process. To demonstrat...

Aug 29 10:15:00 am PDT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

Cloud: Professional Data Center Group Says Get On With It

— Two years ago it would have been impossible for a professional managers association to produce a position paper, Guiding Data Centers to Cloud Computing. The cloud was still being disparaged in too many quarters. Now its become respectable. I miss the days when the topic was more disputable and, in some quarter...

Aug 25 12:46:16 pm PDT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

The medium is the ... squirrel!

— A couple of weeks ago, MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop per Child initiative, foretold the death of the printed book. Today, he foretells the death of book-reading: “I love the iPad, but my ability to read any long-form narrative has more or less disappeared, as I am constantly tempted to check e...

Aug 22 08:22:51 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Does anyone plan on using Windows Embedded Standard 7 (WES7) thin clients?

— Now that the upgrade to Windows XP Embedded has been released (as Windows Embedded Standard 7 ) a few months ago, is anyone really excited about or planning to use it? I know this is the latest extension to the age-old battle between "rich"...(read more)

Aug 12 05:48:00 am PDT / Brian Madden»

Awkward Social Networks

— Do you remember Google Wave? The new collaboration platform from Google that was supposed to be what e-mail could have been if only cloud computing had existed thirty-seven years ago? The real-time Internet architecture that fully exploited commodity servers spanning the globe and administered by unicorns? Th...

Aug 04 05:35:17 pm PDT / BlueLock»

Holistic Approach to Energy Efficient Datacenters

— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished EngineerGlobal Foundation Services, Microsoft A little over three years ago, I joined Microsoft to lead the hardware engineering team that helped decide which servers Microsoft would purchase to run its online services. We had just brought our first Microsoft-designed d...

Aug 02 08:00:00 am PDT / ms datacenters»

New twist on trust when storing data online

— Gripe Line reader Joan wrote in to warn readers about trusting important financial and business documents to Web storage services. "About a year ago, my business partner embezzled the remaining assets of a trucking company we founded together," Joan says. "We had been storing our invoices and trucking contracts on a se...

Jul 23 03:00:00 am PDT / Storage - Infoworld»

BriForum 2010 vendor DEMO Lab videos

— Untitled Document We have 31 vendors exhibit in the DEMO Lab at BriForum 2010 in Chicago this year. Each of these vendors showed off their latest and greatest stuff, but unfortunately not everyone had a chance to visit every demo. So like last year ,...(read more)

Jul 19 09:00:00 pm PDT / Brian Madden»

Colbert Report redux

— I am scheduled to be on the Colbert Report this Wednesday, chatting with Stephen Colbert about The Shallows. Tune in, or program your Tivo appropriately. (I was on the show once before, about two years ago, and you can watch that interview, during which Stephen multitasked with his iPhone, here.) In the meantime, I wil...

Jun 28 08:12:06 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

The Drive-by Download Problem

— A couple of days ago I came across an interesting article by Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich. In this article, Mark hunts a random Internet Explorer crash with his usual tools: The Case of the Random IE Crash. He chases down the IE issue to a Yahoo! Toolbar. This caught my interest for two reasons: 1) the debug tech...

Jun 10 06:57:45 am PDT / Perspectives»

I went home and cried realizing that I was about to spend all of the money I'd made

— Two years ago I sat down with John Keagy and David Hecht from ServePath (most widely known for GoGrids.com now). Unfortunately later that day I had a hard drive failure, with little recovered. About six months ago I found a VIM swap file of my notes with them, and today decided I should post what I have. My hope is t...

Jun 09 04:04:46 pm PDT / mhalligan's blog»

dev2ops Interview

— Want to hear me spout off more about DevOps? Well, here's your chance; I did an interview with Damon Edwards of DTO and they've posted it on the dev2ops blog! Killer quote: "I say this as somebody who about 15 years ago chose system administration over development. But system administration and system administrator...

Apr 28 08:45:33 am PDT / Web Admin Blog»

Lessons from Dad

— Last week my father retired from the Chicago Police Department. After 38 years on the force (34 of which he spent as a Homicide Detective in the worst areas of Chicago) he finally called it quits. Its an event I truly thought I would never see. My dad has had quite a colorful and storied [...]

Jan 23 03:48:03 am PST / LooseBolts»

Presenting our Datacentre Strategy at Tech-Ed EMEA

— Just a short post to let you know that I’ll be in Berlin for Tech-Ed EMEA from November 9 - 13 and I hope to see some of you there. I’ll be providing deeper insight into our new Dublin and Chicago datacentres, including our approaches to delivering on the scale and efficiency required to meet the capaci...

Nov 04 11:41:00 am PST / ms datacenters»

Changes at Microsoft

— by Arne Josefsberg As you may have already read, Mike Manos will be leaving Microsoft in early May to return to Chicago and take a leadership position with Digital Realty Trust. Those of you who read this blog regularly, or who followed his Loose Bolts blog, know that Mike’s been an integral leader in our data ...

Apr 09 07:08:00 pm PDT / ms datacenters»

Cisco Sprucing Up Call Centers With Social Media

— Building on the portfolio it acquired from GeoTel more than a decade ago, Cisco is planning to layer in social media technologies as it revamps its call center products.

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers»

Follow-On: The Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API (A6)

— Update 2/1/10: The A6 effort is in full-swing. You can find out more about it at the Google Groups here. A few weeks ago I penned a blog discussing an idea I presented at a recent Public Sector Cloud gathering that later inherited the name “Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API (A6)” The case fo...