How a private cloud goes beyond virtualization management
At first blush, personal clouds can glance a lot like virtualization. but first looks can be deceiving. at the same time as it’s certainly real that we see virtualization control merchandise prolonged–as an example, with self-carrier portals–in ways that lead them to look superficially like clouds, we’re in point of fact talking about other classes […]
Yahoo’s Yang is gone. That was the easy part
Separating Jerry Yang from Yahoo is the easy part. Yang co-founded the Internet pioneer 17 years ago along with David Filo, following the well-trodden path from Stanford student to tech stardom. But yesterday Yahoo announced Yang is leaving, stepping down from his chief Yahoo post and the company’s board. Yang has overseen, sometimes directly, years […]
iPhone 4S helps iOS close the gap on Android
Apple’s iPhone 4S proved to be the catalyst that jumpstarted iPhone sales last quarter, a new study from Nielsen has found. Among american citizens who purchased a new smartphone within the last three months, forty four.5 % of those surveyed in December bought an iPhone, striking Apple’s handset simply behind Android smartphones, which have been […]
Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy
The wave of online protests against two Congressional bills that aim to curtail copyright violations on the Internet is gathering momentum. Wikipedia is the latest Web site to decide to shut on Wednesday in protest against the two Congressional bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, often called SOPA, and the Protect IP Act, which is […]
Facebook planning to launch Open Graph actions tomorrow?
Back in September at the F8 Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company would deliver a frictionless experience across the Web through applications. And starting tomorrow, he plans to make good on that promise, according to a new report. The world’s biggest social network can be holding a press event in San Francisco day […]
New Intel chip takes fast jabs at iPhone, Galaxy Nexus
Intel’s new chip for phones is surprising in many respects, but the biggest shocker is speed. The “Medfield” Atom Z2460 chip for smartphones, announced at CES, handily beats some of the fastest phones on the market, review site Anandtech said in this post. Is this fast enough to be smartphone-market disruptive? Will battery life measure […]
How Microsoft-Nokia could go from risk to success
Nokia’s Lumia 900 is landing in the U.S. with a 4G handset on AT&T. The move is critical for both Nokia and Microsoft since any hopes for Windows Phone are tethered to a strong U.S. entry. As has been the case since Nokia and Microsoft attached, critics have praised the combo of a brand new […]
Intel smartphone chip No. 1 in some benchmarks, says report
Intel’s new chip for smartphones handily beats some of the fastest phones on the market, according to chip review site Anandtech. Intel’s Atom Z2460 “Medfield” delivers “tablet-like scores” on the BrowserMark benchmark, wrote Anand Shimpi. “The Galaxy Nexus running ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) comes close, but once again Intel expects that on the same OS […]
Facebook launches ‘Listen With’ music button
Facebook is pumping up the volume on its Open Graph initiative by rolling out a feature that allows users to listen to songs with their Facebook friends. The social network announced today the introduction of a concentrate With button that shall we customers of track services and products similar to Rdio and Spotify share the […]
T-Mobile expands 4G network and services, announces Galaxy S Blaze 4G
As a long time T-Mobile customer I have a lot of interest in their future and services so I spent some time with them at the CES. I was encouraged by their expanding 4G network, Bobsled Messaging and Calling expansion, free service practices, and the new Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G. Expansing 4G network T-Mobile […]
Datacenter win for SUSE Linux
The first Linux operating system to be offered on Dell’s new VMware vCloud Datacenter service is going to be SUSE Linux, Dell announced yesterday. Dell is offering their cloud service as both a permanent home for a customer’s applications and an additional resource to handle spikes in demand for customers with less regular workloads. Dell […]
Smartphones with Intel Chips Debut at CES
At the end of last year, Intel showed Technology Review prototypes of chips that it said that it said would help it enter the rapidly growing market for phones and tablets. Today, at CES, Motorola and Lenovo announced that they would start selling smart phones with Intel chips inside this year. The news got here […]
The Internet’s Perilous New Year’s Resolution
Internet legislation that is scheduled for a vote in the U.S. Senate next month would aim to stop the unlicensed downloading of billions of dollars’ worth of movies and music—as well as the trade in counterfeit drugs and other goods—by blocking access to certain websites, many of them registered abroad. But its basic strategies could […]
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs at its top speed even in the face of interference. It takes advantage of a new Wi-Fi standard that uses more of the electromagnetic spectrum, but also hops between the narrow bands of unused spectrum within television broadcast frequencies. In 2008, the us Federal […]
World travelers beware: 4G LTE phones won’t work abroad
LTE may be the global standard for next-generation wireless networks, but that doesn’t mean you can take your 4G Verizon Wireless phone abroad and expect to roam on other 4G networks. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain the sad reality of why you can’t take a U.S. 4G LTE phone and expect to […]
The joy of Microsoft’s ‘avoid ghetto’ GPS patent
Indeed, not so long ago, one lady sued Google because the directions its map offered led her (she believed) to be struck by a car. Now Microsoft has been granted a patent that is designed to make its maps more pedestrian-friendly. Somehow, this patent has immediately been dubbed the avoid ghetto feature. The gist of […]
Trendnet unveils 1.3Gbps wireless router using 802.11ac spec
Until last week the fastest wireless routers on the market conformed to the 802.11n specification, and offered speeds anywhere up to 300Mbps. But over the coming months even that is going to start to look slow as routers appear that conform to the brand new 802.11ac specification. Trendnet seems to be to be the primary […]
David Beall “Your technology is UNMATCHED”
Just wanted to thank you for your help , and responsiveness with both me and Jeyson. ALSO , your technology is UNMATCHED , we are very happy with our service and the results ,thus plan to FULLY leave our AT&T DSL down at our other PINKBERRY (in pinecrest Florida) , and in addition we are opening […]
Vint Cerf: Internet access isn’t a human right
Although some countries around the world argue that Internet access is a fundamental right, one of the “fathers of the Internet,” Vint Cerf, doesn’t see it that way. “Technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself,” Cerf, who is also a Google’s chief Internet evangelist, wrote yesterday in an editorial in The New […]
Broadband over the last year
With another year over, we look back at the events and revelations within broadband over the last year, and look to 2012 to see what we might be looking forward to in the industry. In rural areas, the announcement of broadband funding to provide a basic level of broadband in some areas, as well as […]