MySpace this week won a ruling against Samford Wallace and Walter Rines, reinforcing the fact that there’s no love lost between big web sites and spammers. But it’s also a sign of an escalation of the war on spam. Spammers are finding virgin territory in… Read More »
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If you successfully launch a number of web firms, at a certain point the economies of scale of others’ clouds starts fall away and you may as well run your own. But is it always a good idea to build your own cloud when you get… Read More »
You can tell a lot from a gamer’s hardware. And in the gaming world, nobody knows more about the platforms on which PC gamers run their games than the Steam game distribution network. In 2000, Half-Life was one of the best-rated, best-selling games of all time.… Read More »
Ask any IT professional what they dread most, and they’ll likely tell you that it’s change. Specifically, the act of putting a new application into production: There’s simply no way to know what will happen. Companies spend a tremendous amount of time and money in staging environments,… Read More »
In the software-as-a-service world, source code becomes irrelevant. We don’t want to know how to make a telephone, just a dial tone. With IT, we want app tone. Read More »
In its April 2008 web server survey, Netcraft reports that Google-hosted developers (largely on the Blogger platform) grew their relative share by more than half a percentage point in the last month, mainly at the expense of Microsoft and Apache-based developers. The survey, which polled… Read More »
In the debate around Internet regulation and traffic, it’s important to understand the things that drive how much bandwidth we need. Without fixing the bandwidth shortage on the wire or in the protocols, we make it easy for carriers to claim that they need… Read More »
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Dubai port authorities have impounded two ships, MV Hounslow and MT Ann, believed to be responsible for damage to undersea cables that saw India lose half of its Internet capacity earlier this year, according to India’s Hindu News. Conspiracy theories have flourished about… Read More »
Back in November, we looked at WordPress themes being distributed by third parties who’d embedded hidden code to allow the insertion of arbitrary content. Now a rash of sites are reporting that their blogs have been subverted. Among them is Deep Jive: “I was… Read More »
Recently unveiled enhancements to Amazon’s web services not only give customers more control over availability, they take the services closer to compliance with industry standards, a move that will ultimately make them more appealing to enterprise customers. Today’s smart startups build their applications using on-demand compute infrastructure.… Read More »
On Wednesday we mentioned that pizza.com was up for auction. With the bids finally in Chris Clark, who registered the domain 14 years ago, has turned $20 a year in renewal payments into millions of dollars. Read More »
It’s unlikely that our children’s Internet will look anything like what we have now. How might the Internet as we know it die? Here are 10 possibilities. Read More »
Being a registrar may not be fun, but domain auctions can still be. Pizza.com is up for grabs — that is, if you can come up with $2.6 million in the next 20 hours or so. Domain appraiser Zetetic says… Read More »
The modern browser isn’t simply a way of accessing content, it’s a virtual machine. It runs sophisticated client-side applications built in Flash, AJAX and Java. Perhaps recognizing this, Apple, eager to see its Safari browser on more than just Macs, recently decided to enlarge its PC… Read More »
On-demand computing promises two things. One, the ability to grow or shrink capacity based on need. And two, the ability to drag and drop virtual machines instead of racking and stacking physical ones. With today’s on-demand services, although the machines are virtual, they still need to be… Read More »
Yahoo announced yesterday it would collaborate with CRL to make supercomputing resources available to researchers in India. The announcement comes on the heels of Yahoo’s Feb. 19 claim to have the world’s largest Hadoop-based application now that it’s moved the search webmap… Read More »
Cut through the flurry of announcements out of Microsoft’s Mix conference this week and what emerges is the Redmond giant’s three-pronged defense strategy: consumer, enterprise and developer. Only by understanding the battles the company is fighting does it become clear where it’s is headed. We’ve broken… Read More »
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