Despite a significant outtage of Amazon Web Services earlier this month, Amazon recently announced the launch of a new zone, AWS GovCloud. While cost savings are a definite plus in this economy, downtime and security issues caused us to wonder if the cloud could be trusted with such vital data? So, we asked you...
The arguably crazy (and inarguably crazy fast) animators at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation are at it again. After blasting out over-the-top animated summaries for everything from the Ceglia Vs. Facebook story to Antennagate, they’ve done what they do best with a tale that’s on just about all of our minds right now: the life...
Heroku, the popular Platform as a Service offering initially for Ruby developers only, now supports Java. Actually, Heroku has added support for both the Node.js framework and the Clojure programming language over the past few months, but Java is in a whole other league. If it’s not the world’s most popular programming language, it’s...
Internet radio company Pandora reported the financial results for its first three months as a public company Thursday. The Oakland, Calif.-based company confirmed that while it still has a long way to grow before it reaches the listener levels of terrestrial radio, its ads are now just as valuable as traditional stations. Pandora posted total...
Earlier this summer, at the e-G8 Conference in Paris, Jeff Jarvis implored French President Nicholas Sarkozy to “do no harm” to the Internet. But Jarvis isn’t alone in wanting government to stay out of Internet affairs. Take, for example, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Commissioner Robert McDowell who believes that the “Internet is the...
DSL is on the ropes, and cable companies are seeing their broadband numbers rise, according to data on broadband sign-ups during the second quarter. Leichtman Research Group found that the top 18 providers in the U.S. acquired about 350,000 net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the April-June period. Net broadband additions in the quarter...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team keeps plugging away with new features. This...
There are some hardware problems when it comes to near-field communications. While the promise of what NFC can provide is huge, the adoption of the technology depends on far more than just consumers picking up NFC-enabled handsets. The promise requires that businesses also adopt the technology, especially when it comes to paying for things...
Anyone who has gotten the latest news about Steve Jobs’ resignation or the revolution in Libya from Twitter is probably used to the idea that the real-time information network has become a powerful tool for journalism — a point we’ve made often. But that reality is still filtering down through the world of political...
You may be able to flip through a selection of books, movies and TV shows in your Flipboard app soon, if Mike McCue gets his way. The CEO of the information digest app for iPad says that he is pursuing deals with studio partners to add video content to the app, reports Reuters. The...