Sunday, January 31, 2010

Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism - NYTimes.com

Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism - NYTimes.com

They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that came into an engineer’s head, an affliction known as “featuritis” that burdens so many technology products.

Unboxed - Advances in Sensor-Based Computing Bring ‘Smart Dust’ Closer - NYTimes.com

Unboxed - Advances in Sensor-Based Computing Bring ‘Smart Dust’ Closer - NYTimes.com

Monday, January 25, 2010

Review: Seagate’s USB 3.0 BlackArmor PS110 portable hard drive kit

Review: Seagate’s USB 3.0 BlackArmor PS110 portable hard drive kit

Bill Gates Hearts Academic Earth

Bill Gates Hearts Academic Earth: "We’ve written about the online video education site, which is sort of like a Hulu For Education.The startup provides a user-friendly platform for educational video that offers courses and lectures from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Princeton and others."

Ground Truth Emerges From Stealth Mode to Shine Light on the Mobile Web – GigaOM

Ground Truth Emerges From Stealth Mode to Shine Light on the Mobile Web – GigaOM: "The surge in mobile applications has given rise to a small army of players that offer analytics for app usage, giving developers and advertisers valuable information about how consumers are using their specific applications and responding to ads. But the mobile web overall has long suffered for a lack of rock-solid data. M:Metrics, which was swallowed by comScore in 2008, gained traction in the space by compiling survey information, while its rival Telephia compiled data via “bill-scraping” — analysis of customers’ mobile bills — and was eventually acquired by Nielsen."

Slow Web Connection? Test Its Speed. - NYTimes.com

Slow Web Connection? Test Its Speed. - NYTimes.com

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Citrix’s GoToMyPC (Finally) Remotely Controls Macs From Anywhere – GigaOM

Citrix’s GoToMyPC (Finally) Remotely Controls Macs From Anywhere – GigaOM: "Although according to researchers at IDC, Citrix remains the market share leader in remote access software, with 70 percent share, GoToMyPC’s inability to date to access Mac systems remotely from either PCs or Macs has caused many users to turn to competitors. LogMeIn, for example, offers a free version of its remote control software for use with Macs and is favored by many users and IT administrators. LogMeIn is also Apple-friendly enough to offer a remote control application that works on iPhones and iPod touches. WebEx’s PCNow also offers iPhone control of remote Mac computers. (Citrix still doesn’t offer a version of GoToMyPC for the iPhone.)"

Top 10 enterprise data storage news stories of 2009

Top 10 enterprise data storage news stories of 2009

Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That.

Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That.

Verizon: Where a Megabyte Costs Almost as Much as a Stamp – GigaOM

Verizon: Where a Megabyte Costs Almost as Much as a Stamp – GigaOM: "If the rumored price hike is any indication of what it will cost to use the 4G network, the carrier may not ever have to deal with the kind of congestion issues that AT&T has suffered due to the iPhone simply because no one will be able to afford it."

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Biz climbs digital mountain - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety

Biz climbs digital mountain - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety: "Aspera and Sohonet send data over the Internet through high-speed Internet connections. Both companies encrypt the data they're transmitting and monitor its progress, guarding against both data corruption -- which could render files usesless -- and data piracy. If they detect unknown connections en route, they can halt the transfer process immediately, keeping content from falling into the wrong hands."

Monday, January 11, 2010

WAN Optimization Professionals Group News | LinkedIn

WAN Optimization Professionals Group News | LinkedIn: "you'll see vendors spend a lot of time marketing TCP/IP as the primary protocol…."

WANJet | Products | F5 Networks

WANJet | Products | F5 Networks: "By installing a WANJet at each end of a connection, file transfers take place at nearly the speed of a wired local area network. Application performance is also comparable to what users would experience on a hard-wired LAN."

WAN Optimization

WAN Optimization: "Blue Coat WAN Optimization technologies enable you to accelerate the delivery of internal, external and latency-sensitive real-time applications to distributed users across the extended enterprise – resulting in faster decision making and enhanced competitiveness. The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure provides the comprehensive application and user control required to contain network bandwidth costs and enhance business productivity, while providing the flexibility to align network investments with changing business requirements."

Officers : Darkstrand

Officers : Darkstrand: "To build Darkstrand, Michael architected one of the largest Public/Private partnerships in the USA with the National LambdaRail and developed the working relationships with several other leading labs across the country including: UCSD CalIT2, Argonne National Labs and New Mexico Supercomputing Center."

Dark Clouds for Darkstrand - BusinessWeek

Dark Clouds for Darkstrand - BusinessWeek: "when NLR and Internet2 were planning to merge, there was talk of ripping out the Cisco gear. Darkstrand executives said they were in close talks with Cisco to get newer gear and upgrade the networks, in addition to spending their own money on other types of equipment. If it gets them paying customers, it would be money well spent."