A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google - NYTimes.com

A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google - NYTimes.com

Do Enterprises Need a Toll Road to the Cloud?

Do Enterprises Need a Toll Road to the Cloud?: "Besides network performance and reliability, the two most often cited reasons I hear about why the enterprise is not adopting the cloud is 1) data portability (between the enterprise and clouds) and 2) security and logging around compliance."

Everything You Need to Know About USB 3.0

Everything You Need to Know About USB 3.0: "It’s a way to create the anti-cloud: Instead of accessing everything online either through downloads or streaming, you can store gobs of content on hard drives, and have relatively fast access to it with USB cables. That might be handy if strict data caps are implemented or you think you’ll be without broadband for a while."

USB 3.0 explained: How the next-generation USB will reach speeds of 4.8 Gbit/s

USB 3.0 explained: How the next-generation USB will reach speeds of 4.8 Gbit/s: "But there will be other, more subtle advantages as well, particularly on the architectural level: power efficiency will be greatly improved thanks to the introduction of an idle status; the need for polling will be eliminated thanks to a few protocol changes, which will in turn eliminate the time overhead needed by the host to establish the transfer rate to be used; and finally, USB 3.0 is also said to be highly scalable and ready for further transfer rate improvements in the next future."

iPhone File Browser/Explorer Quickly Transfers Files To/From iPhone

iPhone File Browser/Explorer Quickly Transfers Files To/From iPhone: "All you have to do is connect iPhone with your computer and start iPhone Explorer. There is a build-in option to edit a file, such as delete and rename. You can also create a new folder, by right-clicking anywhere and selecting New Folder. It works on the the principle of dragging and dropping, to copy a file to or from an iPhone simply drag & drop it to the desired location and it will start copying itself."

With LG Deal, Vudu Shifts Focus to Televisions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

With LG Deal, Vudu Shifts Focus to Televisions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: "The new Vudu service is entirely cloud-based and movies are streamed, not downloaded. The company says it has developed compression technology that allows even HD movies to start playing instantly on most broadband connections and lets users jump right to chapters, like a DVD. We look forward to road-testing that ourselves, although a demo this week, using a mocked-up Vudu box, worked as advertised."

Tips for Choosing the Right Performance-tracking Tool

Tips for Choosing the Right Performance-tracking Tool: "Recent studies show that on average, 20 percent of a page’s load time is spent on the back end as the server processes and generates HTML, while the remaining 80 percent is spent on the front end while the browser tries to load page assets and render the HTML. This rule applies to any size web site, whether it receives 100 or 1 million visitors a day. Keeping in mind this 20/80 rule, we at MySpace give as much attention to the front end behavior of our pages as our back-end systems."