Despite a lot of speculation lately about who’s winning the private-cloud race and what companies might be on the way out, it’s far too early to call the game in anyone’s favor. Private-cloud adoption is picking up, but it’s nowhere near ubiquitous yet, and there’s plenty of time for everyone still standing to make...
Our attention was drawn to the personal site of Bret Victor at WorryDream.com today by Gizmodo. We’re impressed. This is a site built by the man who designed the original iPad and iPod touch interface, the interactive data graphics in Al Gore’s iPad book on climate change, engineered an analog-modeling synth, a train trip...
Following in Twitter (T.co) and Overstock’s (O.co’s) footsteps, Amazon has picked up the domains A.Co, Z.Co, K.Co and interestingly enough Cloud.co in a deal made with Colombia-based domain registry .Co. While .Co originally gave Twitter the T.Co domain name for free in order to spread awareness about the brand, Amazon has actually purchased these from...
Yesterday, in a massively botched press launch, Bing released some new features that begin to really tap into the huge amount of social data exposed through its partnership with Facebook. The alliance isn’t a new one — the companies have had a friendly relationship ever since Microsoft made a $240 million investment in Facebook...
Fabrice Bellard built an x86 PC emulator using JavaScript. He’s even gone so far as to install Linux kernal 2.6.20 on top of it. “Thee code is written in pure Javascript using Typed Arrays which are available in recent browsersm,” Bellard wrote. It works in Firefox and Chrome 11, but not not Chrome 12....
Estonian jewelry designer Krista Raak was selling hand-embroidered and embellished necklaces at a small artisan fair in Paris earlier this year when the founders of Boticca.com spotted her work. They invited her to join their new global accessories marketplace, and Raak, itching to showcase her work beyond street fairs and the occasional boutique, agreed....
Visit the Qwest resource center forrelevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can outsource your infrastructure in this brief from Qwest: Do More with Less – How Service Providers Can Help Consolidate IT Expenses. The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band...
Facebook‘s email addresses have been rolled out, with users able to opt-in via the Messages tab once logged in to the service. Facebook announced its new messaging product in November, with roll out beginning in February and now ”Hundreds of millions of people are already upgraded,” a Facebook spokesperson told us. Facebook’s own description of Facebook...
If you’re a T-Mobile user wondering what your choices for phones looks like in the year ahead then it’s worth taking a look at this 2011 Roadmap put together by Chris Zeigler at This is My Next. There is a rundown of every expected or rumored model coming to the carrier in 2011. Some...
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