Rackspace has become the first vendor to deliver on the promise of true cloud-computing portability for businesses with Wednesday’s launch of the first commercial cloud service using OpenStack cloud technology. The news specifically announces that from this point forward, all new Rackspace Cloud customers using cloud services will have their cloud hosted on OpenStack...
Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks launched a new service on Wednesday that uses the cloud and software-as-a-service to give utility workers access to real time data, for monitoring grid systems and receiving alerts. You might think utility employees already have access to services like this — which are starting to dominate other industries...
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ColorblindRain/Flickr Not the Mongolian skeleton. There’s a rumor floating around about Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. According to someone in his inner circle, Palmer may be plotting to clone a dinosaur from DNA, Sunshine Coast Daily’s Kathy Sundstrom reports. Palmer would put the dinosaur in his new Coolum Palmer Resort in the Middle East, says Sundstrom....
Mike McCue, the longtime tech entrepreneur perhaps best known at the moment as the founder and CEO of Flipboard, is no longer serving on the board of directors at Twitter. McCue, who has been on Twitter’s board since late 2010, announced his departure via a Tweet, naturally: To the @Twitter team: it was amazing...
The original TwelveSouth BackPack was a pretty slick way to hang a hard drive on the support bar of an iMac or Apple display, tucking it out of the way and keeping it off of your desk. The new version, the BackPack 2, adds some nice new abilities, like vertical storage for MacBook Airs....
There was such promise: Massive pressure to compromise had Sen. Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill moving forward in the Senate. This was to be the Week of Amendments, to which passage was to follow. However, we’ve hit a roadblock. The Hill, ever present and nearly prescient in such matters, reported the following news today: A cloture...
Today in the tech news rumor mill: A source close to Google tells us that the company has put a stop to all acquisitions related to Google+, at least until the end of this year. This source also tells us that Google is weary of both growing the Google+ team right now and providing...
I’m sure to get the “you’re off your rocker” commentary on this one, but I make a living by looking ahead in the world of mobile technology. And what I see now is a trend that I’ve watched build for nearly a half-dozen years. Thanks to pace of mobile network expansion, new audio and...
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