Cloud computing
Intel sees rush to Netbook app store
As Intel and PC makers prepare to launch an app store for Netbooks in 2010, the emphasis is on speed. “We have a lot of developers right now jumping all over this and writing apps and getting them ready,” Scott Apeland, director of Intel’s Developer Network, told CNET Wednesday. “Today, you can actually submit applications [...]
Acer 17-inch, Intel dual-core laptop falls to $479
Staples is selling a big-screen laptop with robust features that belie its low price. Acer laptop packs a 17.3-inch 1600 x 900 screen, dual-core Intel processor, and 4GB of memory. Acer laptop packs a 17.3-inch 1600 x 900 screen, dual-core Intel processor, and 4GB of memory. As 17-inch laptops go, it’s a lot of laptop [...]
Cloud Computing Doesn’t Have To Be Risky
A secure backup means saving data two or three times at different locations, which should be common practice. Anyone who wants to save data online can check with a provider about their practices. But if a third party is subcontracted to do server maintenance, the possibility of mistakes increases. Know how your provider stores data. [...]
The Perils of the Mobile Cloud
In early October, Long Beach [Calif.] communications Relevant Products/Services manager Kimiko Martinez discovered that her T-Mobile Sidekick phone had lost her 1,200 address-book contacts, photos dating back five years, and three years’ worth of financial information. The data Relevant Products/Services was stored on Microsoft Relevant Products/Services’s Sidekick service. In early October, T-Mobile said it lost [...]
Google’s Chrome OS rival to Microsoft could become our Big Brother
A basic principle of warfare is never to fight on terrain chosen — or dominated — by your enemy. This principle seemed to explain why, as Google rose to challenge Microsoft as the world’s most powerful technology company, the one market it eschewed was that for operating systems. That territory was dominated by Bill Gates [...]
IBM Researchers Go Way Beyond AI With Cat-Like Cognitive Computing
IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) revelation at SC09 created quite a stir and immediately brought forth visions of Cylons and Hal 9000. The cognitive computing team at IBM Research has moved significantly forward in creating a large-scale cortical simulation and a new algorithm that synthesizes neurological data — two major milestones on the path to a cognitive [...]
IBM launches private business analytics cloud
IBM on Monday is expected to unveil Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte of data. This internal cloud computing environment will be the basis for future external services. Internally, IBM’s effort is dubbed Blue Insight, a business analytics cloud that will give 200,000 employees access to key [...]
Turning Twitter into an application server
As much as Twitter is a powerful communication and social application, it’s a relatively simple Web app. As part of a new contest sponsored by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers are going to turn Twitter into their own application server. The contest asks developers to program the “Worst App Server Technology Ever” (Waste) using [...]
IBM helps students put their heads in the cloud
IBM on Wednesday announced a program designed to help educators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and better take advantage of collaboration technology in their studies. The IBM Cloud Academy, announced at the Educause annual conference, includes a global roster of educational institutions as initial participants. Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance [...]