Experience has shown us that even the most fail-safe of cloud platforms can experience periodic downtime. A well-planned cloud computing architecture can mitigate that risk and ensure a much higher likelihood of continuous uptime, no matter how reliant your business is on cloud computing, hybrid or on-premise IT platforms. Join us for this analyst...
Adding photos to your Scrapbook folder on Google+ is one of the easiest ways to liven up your profile. Just like people were taking advantage of the Facebook layout to make their profiles more striking, the same can now be done on Google+. From using a PSD template in Photoshop, to web-based solutions, there...
Summertime is music-festival time, and there are few festivals as popular as Lollapalooza, which is returning to Chicago once again this weekend for its 20th anniversary. That’s right — it’s really been 20 years since Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell started the festival. Back in the old days, Lollapalooza toured the country, but...
If a picture tells a thousand words, a video probably tells.. ten thousand? Videos certainly give a better sense of an event than a single frame – the only problem is that they’re so much more hassle. GLMPS is a new iPhone app which launches today, aiming to solve that problem. Every time you...
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Eddie Yoon Eddie Yoon is a principal at The Cambridge Group. Recent Posts Taking a Risk Is Not Immoral The First Requirement for Becoming a Great Boss What Kind of Misfit Are You? This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Recently Netflix announced a 60% price increase in their...
XDK Means Cross-Platform If you can write code using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, you can use the XDK to build an application, says appMobi. There’s no need to learn Objective C or download any other SDK’s. Instead, the new XDK lets you use industry standards to build your apps, as well as appMobi’s own...
Before you read anything, click the little video clip in the bottom right corner of the image at right. YouTube celebrity Paul Robinett calls his new app, GLMPS, a “magical way to share life with others.” The app may sound like a cheap Apple rip-off based on this description, but fortunately for Robinett, the app is...
Of the 65.2 million tablets predicted to be shipped in 2011, Apple will continue to dominate the tablet market with 40 million iPad shipments and hold a 61% share of the market, a new research report from Digitimes reveals. In the first six months of 2011, tablet shipments increased more than 420% from the...
Journalist Doug Sovern is writing a novel, one tweet at a time. Entitled TweetHeart Novel, it’s the story of a young woman living on the streets of Berkeley, California. Sovern based the character on a woman he knew in real life, who was homeless and struggling with substance abuse. Thinking about how social networking may...