You know the viral “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years“? Well, what if Noah took a 4-second video of himself instead? And what if everyone else did, too? That’s kind of the effect you get from the new Robo.to… Read More »
Archive for September 2009
Network specialist Akamai has developed a managed service for optimizing the delivery of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) over WANs. The solution, a derivative of Akamai’s IP Application Accelerator, works with virtual desktop products by market leaders Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. Fifteen percent of all enterprise… Read More »
It’s Monday morning — time to get back into the swing of things for another week. When I worked on-site I used to use this time to slide back into office culture and catch up with friends. But if I wasn’t careful, I’d have trouble… Read More »
About two months ago, I became a happy Verizon customer. I signed up for the company’s unlimited calling and data plan. I got myself RIM’s brand new release, the BlackBerry Tour, a well-balanced cross between the Curve 2 and the Bold, and was hooked onto a… Read More »
If you’ve been waiting for some clarity about the dozens of standards that will make up pieces of the smart grid, look for it this week. The producers of the GridWeek conference, which runs Sept. 21-24 in Washington, D.C., are expecting to unveil the… Read More »
There were more than a few comments about the changing nature of entertainment during the 2009 Emmy Awards tonight, but Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion brought it into sharp relief with a pre-recorded sketch featuring cameos from Horrible co-stars Felicia Day and Simon Helberg,… Read More »
Josh Silverman, chief executive officer of Skype, wants to make sure that his Internet communications service works over the 3G networks of various phone companies including AT&T. He is going to be speaking tomorrow at an event organized by the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.,… Read More »
Epix, the new premium channel from Viacom, its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lionsgate, has upped its commitment to online content by promising to deliver 3,000 movies to subscribers through EpixHD.com. Epix Megaplex, which will be a web option available to Epix’s distributors, will include… Read More »
After health care reform, the next big fight in Washington will be about energy. Spending on health care is now about 18 percent of gross domestic product, while energy spending is about 10 percent — both in the trillions of dollars, which used to be… Read More »
Here’s a confession I’m a little uneasy making: I still read the newspaper every day. Not an online version, but an old-school, physical newspaper — the New York Times lands on my lawn each morning. I won’t leaf through the pages until the evening, digging… Read More »
Hadoop, as a pivotal piece of the data mining renaissance, offers the ability to tackle large data sets in ways that weren’t previously feasible due to time and dollar constraints. But Hadoop can’t do everything quite yet, especially when it comes to real-time work flow.… Read More »
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the original release of the Macintosh Portable — the first truly untethered Mac, thanks to its internal battery. There’s a quote attributed to Steve Jobs: “Do not trust a computer that you cannot lift.” The original compact desktop Macs were offered… Read More »
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