One of the biggest challenges AMD faces as a chip manufacturer, according to Rick Bergman, who heads up the company’s processor and computing platforms initiatives, is that old problem of predicting the future. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
Google says that 160,000 new Android phones are arriving in customer’s hands each day after announcing 100,000 daily Android activations just last month. This speedy growth has caused some fragmentation issues, but Verizon and Motorola have plans to address that — all Droids will see Froyo. Read More »
Now that AT&T, along with all the providers internationally, have scrapped unlimited data plans and introduced caps, you’ll need to keep an eye on how much data you’re using. Here are a few ways to make sure you don’t end up going over your monthly allowance. Read More »
Cloud computing, as touted by its evangelists, is going to revolutionize the way organizations do business and leverage technology. The ultimate potential of this remains to be seen, but one industry that is in a unique position to take advantage is the media and entertainment industry. Read More »
At SXSW, I asked several attendees for their web working advice as well as their favorite web app so far this year — a new one, an old favorite, whatever they were using at the moment. Here’s my video interview with Deb Ng. Read More »
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has just granted YouTube’s motion for summary judgment against Viacom, meaning that the site is off the hook in Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright infringement case. Read More »
Salesforce.com chairman Marc Benioff said his company has spent more than half of its research and development budget developing social features like the recently launched Chatter, and is trying to bring Facebook-style features to enterprise software in the same way it originally learned from Amazon. Read More »
Last year Verizon said it wanted to launch energy management services by the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010. The ball dropped on 2009 and nada. But now there’s reports that Verizon wants to launch energy management services later this year. Will it? Read More »
Today on the Net: comScore will begin measure video views and ads separately beginning with its June Video Metrix numbers, startup VidMe launches with a new site for sharing personal videos with a select group of friends and NASCAR and Turner are rolling out 3-D. Read More »
Creating an Internet that will serve us well into the future demands a new, open approach to data flows and networking, according to Nick McKeown, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Read More »
As the use of cloud computing grows, this issue emerges: mo’ servers in the cloud, mo’ problems. That’s one of the reasons why cloud computing users are increasingly relying on more sophisticated analytics to fine-tune the way the systems are working. Read More »
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer, said at GigaOM’s Structure conference that the biggest change in cloud computing over the past year is that “we went from talk to action.” Instead of just thinking about implementing cloud solutions, companies are rolling them out aggressively, he said. Read More »
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