Saturday Oct 31, 2009
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Saturday Oct 31, 2009
- Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever - I'll be upgrading this weekend.
- Towards a Permission-based Web. Wherefore Net Neutrality? Or: Maybe Open Source Wins After All - Thought provoking article.
Thursday Oct 29, 2009
- DOD open-sources more than 1M lines of code - I mentioned the DoD encouraging using open-source a few days ago and now this, they are contributing to open-source too.
- Chrome OS Beta Downloads - Hope to try it out shortly.
- Android gets a PowerPC port - Part of the reason why Android has an advantage over the iPhone. It can run and be supported on far more than just Apple's hardware/phones.
- Gallery: Best iPhone business apps - And Apple's advantage, a head start in apps for business.
Wednesday Oct 28, 2009
- L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and "the cloud" - The city of L.A. "jumped off the cliff first".
- Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 - So long standalone GPS devices.
- Five interesting new details about Verizon's Moto Droid - Competition for the iPhone is good.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2009
- Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - MySQL isn't that hard to install and configure already, but this makes it even easier providing easy provisioning, management, and backup. More details here.
- SAP Joins Apache Communities, Extending Commitment to Open Source Technologies - It is good to see increased validation of open-source, but it is easy to commit to open-source projects that are already "proven and broadly used". How about some real innovation and contribution?
- Defense Department issues new open-source guidance - What was a encouraging statement to use open-source before now gets stronger.
Monday Oct 26, 2009
- SOA Manifesto unveiled - Nothing revolutionary, but reaffirms many of the practical SOA ideas.
- Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com - You should expect to see more arrangements like this.
- Brian Aker asks Richard Stallman about MySQL and the GPL at foss.my 2009 - Stallman is a piece of work. He criticizes Brian for twisting his words (not sure he was, just asking clarifying questions), but goes way beyond twisting Oracle's words in making the statement that they just want to kill MySQL.
Friday Oct 23, 2009
- Jaguar Land Rover switching to Google Apps - It clearly makes sense for smaller organizations, but 15,000 users is sizable.
- Manage your tasks with Google - A nice addition.
Thursday Oct 22, 2009
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve? - It is true, the future of IT needs to be a hybrid on several levels from on-premise vs SaaS and IT being the top-down dictator vs user-defined bottom up approaches.
- Motorola goes all-in for Google Android - While I think my iPhone is a fantastic device, especially when jailbroken, it is closed, proprietary, locked in to AT&T (in the US) and a host of other negatives so I'm definitely interested in how Android matures over the next year which will be about the time my AT&T contract is up.
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service? - SaaS is not a cure all (no duh!).
Tuesday Oct 20, 2009
- Street View: We can trike wherever you like - Trail view? River view? Someday, house view? Send your suggestions in.
- T-Mobile Data Loss Falsely Reflects on Cloud Computing - "We need to stop calling everything that does not exist within our firewalls 'the cloud.'" Well said.
- EU's MySQL inquiry may backfire for open source - Well written article, but is MySQL an exception or will what the EU is doing become the new rule?
Thursday Oct 15, 2009
- Google Wave: The moral equivalent of sliced bread - Interesting back and forth between ZDNeters.
- Mono-mania: It's risky business - Good read on how Samba and Mono are different when it comes to patent protection.
Monday Oct 12, 2009
- The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream - Ooops. But is this really cloud? Or just a regular data center not being backed up? James Governor's 15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing may help answer that.
- Apple versus Microsoft: The top 20 stolen ideas of the OS wars - It is interesting to remember where some of the features that we take for granted came from.
- Sun, Oracle chiefs vow: Sun technologies will live on - It was great to see Scott on stage and Larry went after IBM.
- Windows 7 boots 42% slower than Vista, says study - Ouch, are the claims of it being faster just smoke and mirrors? More concerning, "By the end of a simulated two-year period, Windows 7's startup times increased more than 330 percent."
Friday Oct 09, 2009
- Mickos letter to EU: Approve Oracle-Sun deal - A good read that (IMHO) accurate outlines the situation.
- Dell creating Android phone? - Interesting move, but surprised about this: "Interestingly, Dell is splintering the Android stack and shipping the phone with modified or missing Android libraries, making it a bit harder to program. The tipster reported that some apps won’t work on this version."
- AT&T ends iPhone VoIP restrictions; Skype set free - Great news.
Friday Oct 02, 2009
- IBM Challenges Google's Webmail Dominance - The price is right, but it admittedly has fewer features than Google. But both are a lot cheaper than the offering from Microsoft according to the article. This is a clear indication though that IBM doesn't consider cloud e-mail only for consumers and doesn't want to cede that market to its competitors. For those interested in such things it does support IMAP IDLE and they do have a free trial, but you have to call to sign up. Now isn't that old school.
- Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype - I have not tried it (I'm open to an invitation anyone!) but this makes it sound like it is far too busy an interface to deal with for any type of quantity of groups/friends/messages. But it is early and I'm sure Google will improve it.
Thursday Oct 01, 2009
- Prepare to freak out! iPhone developers are using apps to pass your phone number to telemarketers - See this too. It appears it is easy enough to do through the API or sending an SMS that this would have been exposed earlier. Did Apple's review process just miss this one? Even if there is a purpose for such and API, you'd expect a pop-up like there is for sharing your location with an app so the user could approve the use.
- GM, eBay pull plug on online car sales experiment - I hadn't taken a look, but if I was car shopping I would have.
- Microsoft vs. Google: An e-mail showdown at L.A. City Hall - The future for commodity apps like e-mail is the cloud, but is it ready for the City of Los Angeles?
- Life With Snow Leopard: One Month Later - Nice but not compelling according to this review