One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment. It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all use will go. If you are not aware of the [...]
Only a decade ago an IT professional likely was the master of one or two large scale systems. Perhaps they owned the Tandem, maybe they were an Informix DBA, or perhaps managed several applications running on the Big Iron; but typically they were specialists in their daily life. Today though, [...]
Amazon, the world's leading book e-tailer, is getting larger by acquiring Audible. Audible is the leader of audible books sales on the internet with some 80,000 titles in the stable. Reuters is reporting that Amazon will pay $300 million for Audible, a 23% premium. This move gives Amazon a steady [...]
Wordpress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all Wordpress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands out 1 GB, and to get 3 GB from TypePad [...]
More year end wrap up... There is a quiet revolution happening with how we use software and it will soon drive massive changes in the technology world, and our ways of operating and that is the change from locally based applications that run off our computers hard drive, to Web [...]
Intel Buys Into Nirvanix This is a quick post to say hooray for Nirvanix and the consumer; both of which are better off after Intel bought into the SaaS company. Nirvanix recently announced that Intel had taken a stake in the company. Nirvanix hosts online storage solutions for a variety [...]
Amazon made an interesting announcement of a new service called SimpleDB. (Click here to see the website.) The service allows an organization to rent a database online for transaction fees that are measured in pennies per gigabyte. This extends Amazons concept of providing Web based software tools so that developers [...]
Dell has just announced they will start selling Google's enterprise search appliance offerings. The Google Mini, aimed at small to mid-range companies or web sites and the Google Search Appliance aimed at the upper echelon on corporate IT and high document web sites. Google has been selling the appliances for [...]
An announcement that came somewhat out of the blue this week was Amazon debuting a new book reader called Kindle. I have to admit here that I bought one of the very first ebook readers 5 years ago and loaded 3 books, never used it, and now have added it [...]