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2009-11-20
Twitter Nov. 19 released its geotagging API to programmers, but users won't yet be able to access location-based services from the Twitter.com Website. The feature, which allows users to selectively annotate their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about their surroundings, has been implemented on Twitter applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Seesmic Web. Creepy? Perhaps, but likely only to someone who wouldn't opt in to use such a service in the first place.
2009-11-20
Chrome OS is a sort of Web operating system that boots up a netbook in a fraction of the time it takes to start today's existing computers, with Web applications loading in just a few more seconds. Google is trying to make the Chrome OS load time closer to that of a television than a computer. To do that, Google cut out several computer booting processes, and Chrome OS is geared for Flash-based storage. Security is also unique. The Web apps will run on application tabs within Chrome OS, which users will access with one click and manage in persistent windows if they so desire. The first Chrome OS netbooks won't appear until 2010, going head to head with Microsoft Windows Azure devices.
2009-11-19
From 2003 through 2005, IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division. When obituaries were being written about the demise of the mainframe, Clementi and his team went off to rethink and redesign the old-fashioned Big Hunk computer. Now he's leading the all-encompassing cloud computing initiative.
2009-11-19
A software configuration problem in one of the routers within the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down its flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about 4 hours all over the United States, the FAA says. The routing problem also shut down the system's second node in Hampton, Ga.
2009-11-19
MindTouch Nov. 19 joined Google, Zoho, Microsoft and a raft of others in SAAS with MindTouch Cloud, embracing the Internet as a way to deliver collaboration applications. MindTouch Cloud lets non-technical sales representatives or business managers pull business data from CRM and ERP applications, such as Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, and Oracle, and weave them into documents in team workspaces. MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson said his company is targeting Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform and Google Apps, which offer classic document and spreadsheet applications without blending in the business data.
2009-11-18
WAN optimization vendor Riverbed in 2010 will begin rolling out products designed to improve application performance and storage capabilities in public cloud environments, such as Amazon’s EC2. Among the products will be a Riverbed Steelhead software offering designed for public clouds. Riverbed demonstrated some of these capabilities at an event in New York.
2009-11-18
Citrix's new options include a Dazzle offering for Windows and Macintosh computers and updated versions of Citrix Receiver for Windows and Mac plus the popular iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile devices.
2009-11-17
The new cloud subscription-based service gives businesses on-demand access to computing resources via a new online portal called Synaptic Compute as a Service. Online time windows can be purchased through credit card payment, and services can be used immediately.
2009-11-17
EMC Avamar is now providing, via the latest version of its Avamar deduplication and NetWorker backup software, enterprise-quality data backup for desktop and laptop computers. The client runs scheduled backups that include deduplication, so that only new documents and changes to existing files and data are sent to storage.
2009-11-17
A new software version from cloud computing startup ParaScale transforms commodity Linux servers into scalable storage tiers for enterprises and service providers. ParaScale Cloud Storage Software R2.0 also can integrate applications directly with storage nodes.
2009-11-17
Microsoft will make its Windows Azure cloud platform available as of Jan. 1, 2010, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie says in a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The company also announces a data-as-a-service solution code-named Dallas.
2009-11-17
IBM is pressing what it sees as an advantage over HP and Sun by cutting prices by as much as 70 percent on memory in its Power systems. The goal is to further tempt customers of Sun’s SPARC systems and HP’s Itanium platform to migrate to IBM’s Power architecture. However, one analyst also said that the Power platform also is competing with less-expensive x86 systems, which are moving deeper into scale-up environments.
2009-11-17
Google paced the market with 65.4 share, up from its 64.9 percent share in September, comScore claimed. Microsoft Bing nearly reached double digits with 9.9 percent, up from its 9.4 percent share in September. Google and Microsoft's collective gain came at the expense of Yahoo, which plummeted to 18 percent in October from the prior month's total of 18.8 percent. That's Yahoo's lowest share ever and its largest month-to-month share decline since August 2008.
2009-11-16
A free-to-use online map hosted by Appirio breaks out 70 different layers of technology across applications, platforms and infrastructure, and presents it in grid form. For example, in the application sector, it spotlights market leaders such as Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Amazon.com and IBM and lays out the features offered by each.
2009-11-16
At the Supercomputing conference, HP shows off the latest of its double-density blade servers, the ProLiant BL2x220c G6 servers, which pack two Intel Xeon-based blades into the physical space of one. The goal is to help HPC administrators increase the capacity and energy efficiency of their environments while keeping costs down. HP also is introducing the first AMD-based ProLiant SL skinless servers.
2009-11-16
After more than a year as the world’s fastest supercomputer, IBM’s Roadrunner system was knocked down to the second spot by Cray’s Jaguar. Cray’s XT5 system got a boost when the computer maker swapped out the quad-core AMD Opterons for the six-core “Istanbul” chips, ramping up the power to more than 224,000 processing cores. Sun and SGI also were represented in the top 10 of the Top500 list of the fastest systems.
2009-11-16
What IBM has done, and what no one else has yet attempted, is this: Over decades, through its hundreds of thousands of employees, it has researched and archived an immense amount of information in numerous vertical markets, garnered through solving innumerable business-related IT problems. So the company is now putting all that stored-up experience with intellectual property to work behind a new cloud service.
2009-11-15
Apple's rumored tablet PC received another jolt of scuttlebutt when the blogosphere uncovered a patent application submitted by Apple for a "pen-based input system" that would facilitate handwriting on a touchscreen. Previous patent applications have suggested that the tablet PC, still unconfirmed by Apple, will offer a versatile touchscreen. Despite Apple's customary silence, both the media and potential Apple partners have been circulating rumors and ideas about the device for months.
2009-11-15
Google, authors and publishers Nov. 13 narrowed the scope of their agreement to let Google sell access to millions of out-of-print books online, limiting it to include works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or published in the U.K., Australia or Canada. The revised deal also addresses concerns from Amazon, the Department of Justice and others that Google would have too much control over orphan works. The Open Book Alliance, formed in August with Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo to oppose the Google Book Search bid, blasted the revised settlement in a statement.
2009-11-14
The exoneration of a Brooklyn teenager with the help of a timely Facebook status update has sparked interest in social networking tools as evidence for law enforcement officials and litigators. This could heighten interest in Google Latitude Location History, an opt-in feature that lets users store where they've been. Yet the fact that Google is now storing location history has privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation concerned about what sort of protection Google will offer Latitude users in the case of legal compliance.
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