Monday Nov 16, 2009
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Monday Nov 16, 2009
- Other governments are "Going Google," too - not just L.A. - The trend continues.
- AT&T plots compute cloud similar to Amazon Web Services - It is great to see an open API like Sun's Cloud Platform being used.
- GlassFish powers Egyptian seafood? - Entertaining at least, the power of the internet and a cool logo.
Friday Nov 06, 2009
- Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World - Great read for those interested in more about Android, particularly some of the comments.
- Motorola's Droid review: It's the best phone on Verizon - Sounds interesting, but not yet matching the iPhone as an "iPod". Give it another year (when my AT&T contract is up) and I may be ready to leave my iPhone.
Thursday Nov 05, 2009
- Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market, says study - "... this is a far cry from the 96 percent advantage Microsoft claimed to have enjoyed in April."
- Applications I Can’t Live Without, Volume 1: YubNub - Command line for the Web.
Wednesday Nov 04, 2009
- Turning Twitter into an application server - "... Twitter plays the role of the enterprise service bus and the Twitter API is the broker between data sources ...". I suggested as much a few months ago.
- Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses - Hard to believe this is still the case. "User Account Control did block one sample; however, its failure to block anything else just reinforces my warning prior to the Windows 7 launch that UAC's default configuration is not effective at protecting a PC from modern malware".
- AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy - Odd course of action.
- Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 thoughts - After complaining about their lack of participation, they had to praise it, but will their participation help or just slow the process down?
Monday Nov 02, 2009
- Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model - Changing the rules with mapping data and more.
- In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline - I was using CallVantage until their service was terminated, now using VoIPo and it works well for less than $10/month.
- Time to upgrade open source perceptions of Gartner - Gartner coming around on open-source?
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."