- Motorola Buys 280 North – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com
Check out telco ecosystem getting developer happy. As I Tweeterd to my old high school alum @madskeelz, “everyone in the telco space is (finally!) trying to go after developers. Need killer apps beyond voice and sms.” - Oracle forms new ‘axis of evil’ against open source, claims Adobe
Let the JavaFX conspiracy-theories loose! - vSphere rounds into form
“With a 10GB switch, enterprise customers can expect to be able to move eight machines at once across a VMware cluster.” - Makara layers DIY platform cloud atop EC2
The Java + PHP PaaS startup – “The Cloud Application Platform is the set of tools that wrap around this platform cloud layer that allows system administrators to set up software stacks to support Java and PHP applications and then have it automatically scale that infrastructure up and down as workload conditions dictate.” - Novell Launches Cloud Security Service for MSPs
Novell trying to get into the “make the cloud lawyer approved” game. - Microsoft ID guru slams ‘duplicitous’ Apple
“This, according to Apple, includes data such as ‘occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location, and the time zone where an Apple product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.'” To which Microsoft’s Kim Cameron replied: “I pointed out the obvious: if Apple releases your location and a GUID to a third party on multiple occasions, one location will soon stand out as being your residence…Then presto, if the third party looks up the address in a ‘Reverse Address’ search engine, the ‘random’ GUID identifies you personally forever more. The notion that location information tied to random identifiers is not personally identifiable information is total hogwash.” - The Demographics Of Texting And Talking In The U.S.
“In a survey that explained texting and talking by race, gender, age and geography over a 12-month period ended March 2010, Nielsen found that African-Americans use the most voice minutes every month; women talk and text more than men, and teens on average send a whopping 2,779 text messages a month.” - Verizon cloud first to clear credit card test, targets payments segment now
“Verizon Computing as a Service, or CaaS, the company’s cloud computing solution is the first cloud-based solution to successfully complete the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audit for storing, processing and transmitting credit card information.” – in a recent podcast with Expensify.com we discussed the difficulty of PCI compliance in relation to cloud computing: looks like Verizon is doing something in the area. - Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
- OpenStack cloud fluffer does VirtualBox • The Register
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