If you polled people about NFC, most would confuse wireless payment technology with the NFL’s National Football Conference. But Apple’s hiring of NFC expert Benjamin Vigier combined with its NFC patent library make for a Joe Montana – Jerry Rice tandem that could score NFC adoption. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
As talk of cloud adoption by enterprise becomes more commonplace, focus is shifting from justifying the cloud, to identifying best practice and the highest performing cloud providers. One area with significant activity is that of performance monitoring. So who is providing cloud monitoring information? Read More »
Verizon has delivered broadband speeds of almost 1 gigabit per second to a customer in Taunton, Mass. as part of tests of its FiOS fiber to the home network. The test customer achieved throughputs of 925 Mbps down and 800 Mbps up. Read More »
Facebook is buying Chai Labs, a small startup founded by the former product manager and launch engineer for Google AdSense that makes a content management system for publishers in the travel, local, shopping and entertainment verticals to help them algorithmically create interesting content. Read More »
Feel like you’ve been seeing a lot more ads on Hulu lately? Guess what, you’re right: New numbers from comScore show that close to 84 percent of all videos shown on Hulu are now advertisements. That makes Hulu by far the biggest video ad network. Read More »
After weeks of testimony, Baltimore Gas & Electric has gotten itself back into the good graces of Maryland state regulators. The utility announced Monday that the Maryland PUC approved the redrawn project on Friday, meaning BG&E won’t have to return a $200 million DOE stimulus grant. Read More »
Last month, Rackspace and NASA jointly announced OpenStack.org, re-igniting a discussion about long-sought-after open cloud standards. In our view, OpenStack is the first project that has a good chance at standardization between multiple cloud vendors and private clouds. Here’s a look at why. Read More »
iPhone users have long been accused of being data hogs, gobbling up bandwidth and crushing AT&T’s 3G network. But it’s Android users that could be pushing their carrier’s limits by watching mobile video over 3G networks rather than WiFi, according to new research from Rhythm NewMedia. Read More »
GetJar today announced that mobile downloads of Photobucket have increased 2,500 percent with the new GetJar App It! service, which creates a single application web link for use on all mobile platforms. GetJar envisions the unique AppIt! link used for social networking and viral marketing. Read More »
Ezra Zygmuntowicz, one of the four co-founders of EngineYard, a Ruby-on-Rails focused platform as a service has left the company. A well known authority in the Rails world, Zygmuntowicz is moving to Portland and will be working on a brand new company. Read More »
Aster Data, a San Carlos, Calif.-based company, is offering a free version of MapReduce development environment for downloads, which will allow developers to build data analytical apps based on it. MapReduce is a technology that was first used by Google for parallel processing of bigdata sets. Read More »
Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged IP violations in Android isn’t a threat to open source, but is a wake-up call that capitalism is alive and well in the open-source community, and its participants had better be ready to play hard. Read More »
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