Unisys, the IT services company, today became the latest with a set of products aimed at helping customers create their own internal clouds. And in a month it will offer a true Infrastructure-as-a-Service product that will deliver computing and storage on demand and on a … Read More »
Archive for June 2009
I use a lot of Google’s applications to stay organized and productive, but I’m especially fond of Gmail. In its standard form, it’s a fine email client that makes it easy to stay on top of that mountain of email, but with a little customization you … Read More »
The Skype folks seem to release new versions of the VoIP program all the time on one platform or another. That would exclude Windows Mobile, as they seem to sit on versions for a very long time. Those of you who use Skype on your WinMo … Read More »
Good things come in threes, and any triptych of services is the basis for a journalist to declare a trend, so when I met three different companies last week that offered a way to bundle a variety of mobile broadband connections into one fat pipe, I … Read More »
Much has changed for battery maker A123Systems since it first filed to go public nearly a year ago. In the fourth and latest revision to its SEC registration statement, filed last week, the company has laid out some of the opportunities — and potential … Read More »
Bsquare is a software developer for the embedded device community, and it has announced the release of an Adobe Flash browser plug-in for the Android platform running on ARM-based devices. The Flash plug-in requires Android 1.5 (Cupcake) or higher. “The next version of Google’s Android operating … Read More »
Developing Countries Eye Efficiency: “Emerging markets are waking up to the fact that using energy more wisely puts money in consumer wallets, can help smooth out trade deficits and is better for the planet in terms of reducing carbon emissions.” — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Nitrogen Dioxide … Read More »
I’m working in the local Starbucks this afternoon, where I’m enjoying beating the 100-degree heat we’re having here in Houston. Once thing that I’ve noticed since the heat wave has grown so unbearable is that cars take forever to cool down using air conditioning and heat … Read More »
The Mozilla team has extended Fennec, their mobile browser, to Windows Mobile devices with a second alpha version now available. Although there are a few other great third-party browser options for WinMo, I have high hopes for Fennec. The browser makes great use of the … Read More »
The fear of freedom that Zengobi’s Curio offers users has caused me to write and rewrite this post many times over the past few months. I just haven’t known how best to embody its essence. So before I confuse (and frighten) myself more, I’m kicking … Read More »
Eight-two percent of home buyers who have had broadband service over fiber all the way to the house rank it as the leading real estate amenity, the Fiber-to-the-Home Council said today. A national study of U.S. broadband consumers by RVA LLC Market Research … Read More »
More Must Reads
Do Boomer Demographics Make a Tablet Mac Inevitable?
Born in the early-middle of the Baby Boomer generation (1951), I’m one of the folks O’Reilly Radar’s Mark Sigall is talking about in a recent essay contending that an Apple assault on the tablet computer market is “inevitable,” since such a device would be so … Read More »