Inside the BriefcaseTweet Cloud computing provider removes controversial leaks site’s servers from EC2 platform in face of US government pressure Amazon Web Services has pulled whistle blower web site Wikileaks from its infrastructure-as-a-service platform following pressure from the US government. Earlier this week, the controversial site moved its servers to AWS’s Elastic Compute (EC2) public cloud service. […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Calling it “the next generation of realism” Google on Monday introduced the latest version of Google Earth, promising more seamless interactivity with Mother Earth and some unusual new features. “In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with a truly integrated Street View experience — and 3-D […]
Tweet Last week we looked at the challenges that the CRM industry had addressed to establish itself as a $10bn industry, demonstrating the people, processes and technology obstacles that had been overcome. But to suggest that it’s all plain sailing these days would of course be grossly inaccurate. Today, a myriad of issues still […]
Tweet Google Australia is offering free training in its products and free AdWords advertising to companies and individuals that offer web services to SMBs in a bid to get them promoting Google’s offerings to their customers. In a blog posting, product marketing manager, Richard Flanagan, said: “If you’re a webmaster, digital agency, freelancer, IT consultant, […]
In a recent post, the white house helps tweeters navigate the “8” official White House Twitter accounts. Each White House account provides a different view into the Obama administration.
Tweet For sites quickly growing to service hundreds of millions of users, risk control is vitally important. With megasites, the application doesn’t just support the company — often, it IS the company. Automation is also key. “There’s a tendency in hyperscale environments for small problems to grow larger almost inconceivably quickly,” said Pund-IT’s Charles King. […]
Tweet Adobe is in the process of optimizing Flash for the Mac, and the project has already reached the beta stage, CEO Shantanu Narayen announced at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco earlier this week. He indicated that Apple’s problems with Flash were Cupertino’s fault, saying that Adobe didn’t get early access to hardware […]
We’re entering a period of conflict in the Web, a period of intense competition. We’re looking at new levels of M&A. We’re looking at the decision: do you partner, or do you compete?” conference organizer Tim O’Reilly said in his introduction to Web 2.0 Summit.
Tweet Facebook has revealed its new messaging system, which is designed to seamlessly tie together several different communications media into a single stream of interaction. “This is not an email killer, it’s a messaging system that includes email,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “We don’t expect people to wake up tomorrow and shut off their […]
Tweet Last week was an interesting week, with increasing coverage of the Oracle vs. SAP trial and word out that Larry Ellison had put a bounty out on HP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker so his attorneys could chew him out on the stand for taking Larry’s buddy’s job. At the same time, Google gave its […]
Tweet Red Hat’s acquisition of virtualization company Qumranet in 2008 led to significant changes in the RHEL virtualization stack. Red Hat has transitioned its customers away from Xen in favor of KVM, a native hypervisor originally developed by Qumranet that is favored in the upstream Linux ecosystem. KVM became the standard virtualization solution in RHEL […]
Tweet Apple TV or Google TV? After you work your way through the myriad configurations, you get stuck with a limited selection of content, a ridiculously clunky search interface, weird remotes, skimpy storage, and perhaps an underwhelming picture. Given these options, the perfect TV setup is anything but clear. Could it be… a garden-variety computer? […]
Tweet Facebook has come up with an end-run that circumvents Google’s attempt to blockade the social network from its users’ Gmail contacts. Before Google installed the barrier, Facebook users could opt to send their Gmail contacts’ info over to the social network. Now that ability is back, with the help of Facebook’s workaround. It’s a […]
Tweet In a move the cellphone giant characterized as reaffirming its commitment to Symbian, Nokia has taken over development of the platform. Symbian, still technically the most popular smartphone OS in the world, has been losing significant market share in the face of competitors like Android and iPhone. The Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010 in […]
Tweet Without a doubt, the web and social media are making it easier for businesses to communicate with their publics. As a result, social media and inbound marketing strategies and tools are making it easier for PR professionals to connect and build relationships with influencers, generate media coverage, and communicate their messages to customers, prospects […]
Tweet Those phone rumors once again returned to haunt another Facebook announcement. For the last month or so, any time Facebook has had something new to present to the world, talk would again pick up about how the social networking site might one day decide to build its own cellphone, and the company would have […]
Gartner, Inc. has examined the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technology, topic, and industry areas, and these findings have been published in “Gartner’s Hype Cycle Special Report for 2009.” Each Hype Cycle provides a snapshot of key technologies and trends in a specific technology, topic, geographic region, or industry domain.
Tweet One of the most crucial steps an organization can take when choosing a cloud provider is setting up a reliable service level agreement that protects your data as it resides in the cloud. The answers a prospective provider gives to five key questions can tell you a lot about whether you can trust that […]
Tweet Google has launched a new vulnerability reward program, modeled after the existent Chromium one, which promises to reward security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in many of its online services. The reward program will cover any Google Web properties that handle “highly sensitive authenticated user data or accounts.” Read More…
Tweet Managing a data center is more complicated than ever with the growing sophistication and interconnectedness of enterprise applications, networks and now private and public cloud resources. The challenges created by these interwoven infrastructures are difficult to overcome without the right tools. Read More…
Tweet Oracle announced Tuesday that it plans to buy e-commerce vendor Art Technology Group for about $1 billion. The deal is expected to be completed early next year. ATG’s technology will be “highly complementary” to Oracle’s existing lineup of CRM (customer relationship management) ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other software, according to a statement. Read […]
Tweet IBM’s new strategy will give government authorities a chance to utilize IBM cloud services, which will be sold for a monthly subscription fee. It will be useful to the government authorities because the usage of public cloud services is one of the UN’s imaginary works due to security concerns. Market Research Media Ltd. forecasts […]
Tweet The once-mighty MySpace has given up trying to reclaim its glory as the world’s largest general-purpose social network, a title now firmly in Facebook’s grasp. Instead, MySpace is undertaking a significant redesign that will put the focus on the types of users it’s managed to more or less keep on board: musicians and music […]
Featured ArticlesTweet SOURCE: Sys-Con Media Amazon’s cloud business says that starting November 1 new – repeat new – customers, described as anyone from college kids to Fortune 500 developers, can run a free EC2 instance for a year, and leverage the free usage across Amazon’s other services like S3, Elastic Block Store, Elastic Load Balancing and […]
Tweet A huge gingerbread man has been put up on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., suggesting that Gingerbread, the next release of Android, may be released soon. Past dessert-themed displays have heralded the release of previous versions of Android such as Froyo. There’s still a bit of confusion swirling around Gingerbread. It’s not yet […]
Tweet Cloudcor’s innovative “hybrid-format” UP 2010 Cloud Computing Conference will take place November 15 – 19, 2010, with the opening day event featuring the UP 2010 Cloud Awards. The awards will recognize innovation and distinction among both established and emerging cloud computing providers, taking place both virtually online and in person at the Hyatt Regency […]
Tweet Interop New York 2010 also played host to the Enterprise Cloud Summit. And the cloud was on nearly every attendee’s mind at this year’s East Coast Interop. Nowhere was that more evident than in the Cloud Zone on the Interop New York show floor — the busiest section of the expo floor by a […]
Tweet Cambridge, Mass.-based Pegasystems, which sells business process management and customer relationship management (CRM) products, unveiled a new tool that helps financial service institutions “address a growing and critical need to dramatically improve the process for capturing and resolving customer inquiries across channels.” Read More…
Gene Simmons’ personal website and that of a record company he runs were successfully targeted by the so-called Anonymous anti-copyright group associated with the 4Chan message board. Simmons will continue to express his robust views and Anonymous will continue attacking his personal website. Both will gain coverage for their opposing views from the attention.
In the world of information technology, some professions are particularly perilous. Whether you’re risking psychological stress or your very life, these fields aren’t for the faint of heart. Some people in these roles thrive on adrenaline, climbing thousands of feet to fix communications towers. Others risk only emotional damage, getting paid to consume disturbing Internet content.
