By David Weinberger Anil Dash is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk, titled “The Web We Lost.” He begins by pointing out that the title of his talk implies a commonality that at least once was. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppin... Apr. 2, 2013 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 339 |
By Greg Schulz  In 2012 AWS released their Storage Gateway that you can access and try for free here using either an EC2 Amazon Machine Instance (AMI), or deployed locally on a hypervisor such as VMware vSphere/ESXi. About a year ago I did a storage gateway post (First, second and third impressions) w... Mar. 29, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,424 |
By Don MacVittie  Okay, for those of you who’ve been waiting, this is the blog. For those who haven’t, welcome, we’re going to talk about https connections (specifically) on Android (TM) from within a native app and connecting to sites that Android views as possible security risks. Easy like learning t... Mar. 29, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 839 |
By Cloud Ventures The Forrester report ‘Total Impact of Google Apps‘ provides a framework for identifying the ROI from switching from a legacy mail and collaboration platform to Google Apps. Surveying 200+ organizations with over 1,000 employees, Forrester identified the main business benefi... Mar. 28, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 472 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob Gourley We have previously written about Recorded Future, a fast moving startup delivering predictive signals from the noise of the web. Recorded Future provides a blog that captures several exemplars of their capability and its applicability in many mission areas. One mission a... Mar. 27, 2013 02:16 PM EDT Reads: 671 |
By Jeff Barak  Why are AT&T; and Google paying for New Yorkers’ free Wi-Fi? A recent Amdocs survey into service provider Wi-Fi strategies provides a pointer.
Announcing another free Wi-Fi service for a New York neighborhood recently, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made an interesting point:
“Keep in min... Mar. 20, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 673 |
By Cloud Ventures Join my Sheepdog colleagues for a webinar on Thursday, March 21st at 12pm EST – Going Google Enterprise. Register here With a customer case study from Joe AbiDaoud, CIO for Hudbay Minerals, this webinar session will provide a comprehensive introduction to the Google+ Apps suite a... Mar. 14, 2013 04:08 PM EDT Reads: 288 |
By Don MacVittie  It is interesting, talking with people about what they read, and seeing how what they read is reflected in their daily lives. Even the occasional reader of this blog would not be surprised to find that I spend some amount of time with my nose buried in epic fantasy books and military h... Mar. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,529 |
By Cloud Ventures It’s often said that BYOD – Bring Your Own Device, is part of a broader trend of “Consumerization”. In short staff are increasingly bringing their own home technologies into work, such as their smartphone, and using them for work purposes. It’s a blended e... Mar. 12, 2013 05:28 PM EDT Reads: 259 |
By PR.com Newswire Atlanta, GA, March 12, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The Social Foundry, an Atlanta based application software provider, announces the maiden release of its database integration platform.
Called “The SOAPbox,” it is a low cost alternative to data integration technologies considered t... Mar. 12, 2013 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 671 |
By Janakiram MSV  The cloud world seems to have been received some interesting announcements and offerings over the last week. There were some new feature releases and price offerings from Amazon.
Microsoft has announced some important updates to Windows Azure Mobile Services. Plus, Cloud Foundry has... Mar. 11, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,630 |
By RealWire News Distribution Xero Ltd (XRO) announces the appointment of Stuart McLean to the new role of Chief Revenue Officer. McLean moves to Xero from Google in Sydney where he has been Head of Enterprise Australia New Zealand, driving cloud applications business for products such as Google Apps. His previous ... Mar. 8, 2013 09:03 PM EST Reads: 500 |
By Adam Grocholski  Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on some content I’m excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android developer’s perspective. Through the course of the series you’ll create your first... Mar. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,097 |
By Cloud Sherpas Ferris cuts development time by 80% on average, reducing costs and speeding time-to-market for web and mobile applications built on the Google App Engine platform Atlanta, Georgia – February 28, 2013 – Cloud Sherpas has launched the world’s first open source Python framewor... Feb. 28, 2013 07:51 AM EST Reads: 601 |
By Cloud Ventures SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, 2013 — Firespotter Labs today announced the UberConference Google Apps Reseller Program. UberConference is a next generation audio conferencing service with a unique, visual interface. UberConference’s new channel partner program will be launching with Premi... Feb. 28, 2013 03:54 AM EST Reads: 630 |
By RealWire News Distribution London, 27 February 2013: Unified Communications Expo sponsor Cisco will highlight the value of a unified workspace strategy, bringing together social, collaboration, cloud and video solutions in a comprehensive programme of seminars taking place in the Social Business & Collaborat... Feb. 27, 2013 09:08 PM EST Reads: 717 |
By Shelly Palmer Regardless of where you sit in the Samsung copying Apple discussion, the Korean smartphone maker announced its latest tool in the fight against its Cupertino rival: a Passbook-style ticket and coupon management app called Samsung Wallet. Unveiling Wallet at its Developer Day at Mobile ... Feb. 27, 2013 02:46 PM EST Reads: 200 |
By Debbi Cole  Have you experienced a sudden traffic burst in your website today? If this is becoming a common trend already, you should seriously consider replacing your shared hosting plan with either a VPS or a dedicated server. Although the common shared hosting service is a good plan on itself, ... Feb. 27, 2013 08:58 AM EST Reads: 765 |
By RealWire News Distribution Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 26th, 2013 Smaato, the leading global mobile ad exchange, announced the release of the Smaato Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 8 with MRAID support, providing Windows Phone 8 Developers the opportunity to monetize with Rich Media Ads.I... Feb. 26, 2013 11:10 PM EST Reads: 420 |
By RealWire News Distribution Netbiscuits' Device Context Service, now available through a cloud-delivered solution, helps companies deliver native-like experiences on the mobile web using HTML5 in combination with information and context for device, browser, network and user parametersA core part of Netbiscuits a... Feb. 26, 2013 03:03 AM EST Reads: 962 |
By PR.com Newswire Chicago, IL, February 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Preparing, printing and filing Form W2 and 1099 is easier, faster and more flexible than ever for small business owners this 2013 tax season. The new edition of ezW2 software from halfpricesoft.com now allows users to easily import employee,... Feb. 21, 2013 04:25 AM EST Reads: 134 |
By Cloud Ventures A headline theme for our upcoming seminar next week is ‘Google Apps for Healthcare’. It’s free to attend – Sign up here. Take Two Apps and Call Me in the Morning Our keynote speaker is Dennis Giokas, author of the recent Cloud Computing strategy document from Ca... Feb. 19, 2013 06:35 PM EST Reads: 991 |
By Jerry Huang  Companies want to migrate data to cloud and work from cloud directly. However, they don’t have time to wait for the data migration to happen if it is taking a long time. Here is a typical conversation around data migration to the cloud.
“Can Gladinet work as a shared network drive for... Feb. 18, 2013 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,983 |
By App Man  Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud bursting, cloud storming, elastic compute, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, the list of terms goes on and on ad-nauseam. Like it or not, cloud computing has taken hold as an important design consideration in companies ranging from small startups to lar... Feb. 16, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,828 |
By Shelly Palmer Microsoft’s decision to keep Office away from iPad may be a good way to protect sales of Windows tablets but it’s also costing the company a pretty penny in terms of potential revenues. AppleInsider has picked up on some recent research from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt showing tha... Feb. 15, 2013 03:31 PM EST Reads: 529 |
By Harold Wong  Learn how to Install and Configure Parallels 8 on a Mac for use in Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development.
You'll need the following to use Parallels Desktop to install Windows 8 and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 on your Mac:
Parallels Desktop. To download a trial version... Feb. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,163 |
By Louis Nauges Il ne se passe pas une semaine sans que j’anime un séminaire ou participe à une conférence dont le thème principal est le « Cloud Computing ». Que ce soit pendant une heure ou quatre jours, j’ai à chaque fois... Feb. 9, 2013 06:23 PM EST Reads: 2,164 |
By Cloud Ventures Last year I posted a blog to the Allstream portal about how tools like Cloud-based Microsoft Outlook services can help you implement personal productivity best practices, like ‘Getting Things Done‘. This type of functionality is also possible with the Google toolset, indeed... Feb. 4, 2013 01:32 PM EST Reads: 822 |
By RealWire News Distribution Kilgraston School was getting more spam than genuine email iomartcloud, one of the UK's leading suppliers of business critical hosted cloud services, is helping one of the UK's top independent schools to stop its staff and pupils being inundated by spam email.Kilgraston School, a Scott... Jan. 30, 2013 01:13 AM EST Reads: 1,284 |
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By Brian Jensen  As we get into the full swing of the new year and put another CES behind us, it’s time to take a look at the current trends in technology and get a feel for some of the developments we can expect in 2013. There are a lot of interesting products just around the corner – some of them wil... Jan. 26, 2013 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,709 |
By Xenia von Wedel  Just collecting and storing 'big data' doesn't drive value to an organization's bottom line. The real issue is the ability to quickly communicate with users and ask any question, any time, no matter how much data you have.
Realtime push technology gives big data users a competitive ... Jan. 25, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,546 |
By Bob Gourley  Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, revealed his plan to release a version of Ubuntu software for smartphones. Shuttleworth aims to target developing countries and believes Ubuntu will have an easy transition into these markets due to the software’s brand recognition in these ... Jan. 21, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,842 |
By RealWire News Distribution San Francisco, CA / Singapore / Hamburg, January 16, 2013 - Smaato, the leading mobile RTB ad exchange and ad optimization platform for fast-growing application developers, has been awarded a 2013 Mobility Award for Mobile Advertising as Best Mobile Ad Network by MobileTrax, a leading ... Jan. 17, 2013 01:04 AM EST Reads: 376 |
By Suresh Sambandam  The PaaS market is filled with noise. "Platform as a Service" is surrounded with blind men around the elephant, each with their own definition PaaS. This is further compounded by the fact that the Application Platforms landscape is changing quickly as well. We keep hearing that "Develo... Jan. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,023 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan  In this article of the Performance Tuning Windows 2012 series we’ll focus on the Networking Subsystem. We’ll approach the various optimization guidelines by layer, starting with the hardware and drivers. We’ll also cover NDIS, the protocol stack, and user mode applications. Let’s star... Jan. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,339 |
By RealWire News Distribution First-of-its-kind migration service makes moving to the Cloud much easierA new service designed to help businesses migrate critical services to the Cloud has been launched by Cloud Technology Solutions (CTS). The service Go Google, is the first-of-its-kind specifically designed as a on... Jan. 14, 2013 07:23 AM EST Reads: 418 |
By David Weinberger Of course Aaron was a legendary prodigy of a hacker in the sense of someone who can build anything out of anything. But that’s not what the media mean when they call him a hacker. They’re talking about his downloading of millions of scholarly articles from JSTOR, and there’s a slight c... Jan. 13, 2013 11:12 AM EST Reads: 249 |
By Clint Edmonson  It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including:
SDKs for Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and iOS app
Auth using Microsoft Acco... Jan. 9, 2013 10:06 AM EST Reads: 1,817 |
By Louis Nauges Pour mon deuxième billet de l’année, j’ai le grand plaisir de pouvoir parler de manière très positive et optimiste de l’informatique dans les entreprises françaises ; merci, Oxylane ! Oxylane ? ce nom ne vous dit rien ? Vous les... Jan. 9, 2013 09:42 AM EST Reads: 2,352 |