Links for January 19th through January 23rd

• Windows Phone 7 IE Renders Ugly Reader – Google Reader Help
• Windows Phone 7 Review
  A detailed review of Windows Phone 7, with nice attention to developer options.
• That's Schmidt: So long to the Google chief who wasn't
• Oops: Android contains directly copied Java code, strengthening Oracle's case (updated) — Engadget
• OSFA – Point Distribution and Results
  Interesting score-card for open source usage in the US federal government. The Department of Killing People (I mean, "Defense") comes out on top!
• Convirture Brings Strong Momentum into 2011
  Open source: "Surpassed 45,000 downloads of ConVirt Open Source with 15,000+ downloads of version 2.0 since launch in February 2,000+ unique deployments." Enterprise: "More than 70 deployments of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise."
• YC-Funded AppHarbor: A Heroku For .NET, Or “Azure Done Right”
• State of the Cloud – January 2011 :: Jack of all Clouds :: Guy Rosen on Cloud Computing
  They take the top 500,000 websties (by QuantCast) and see which cloud (if any) they're running on. Amazon and Rackspace are neck and neck, blowing away others.
• Box.net moves cloud storage further into business collaboration | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld
  From an "enterprise" perspective, seems to mostly be around permissions and controls for who can access what file.
• HTML5^H: What it means to developers, standardistas, and browser vendors on Dion Almaer's Blog
  " * We need a clear vision on where the Web platform is going, and how everyone can be involved. * We need some notion of documenting what the platform as a-whole can do (thus: we need versions). Just as an iOS developer can see what 4.3 beta, we should have something similar. This will be an umbrella of smaller specs and versions, but we need something. * We need rich tests that we can run against Web platform runtimes so we know what they have implemented from the platform standard * We need to acknowledge the needs of multiple parties that keep the Web moving "
• What do the icons on my phone mean? | Windows Phone 7
• Google shuffle: why Eric Schmidt had to be pushed from the top
  "Google needs to become a tight ship where products are not pushed out of the door without really careful examination of their value both to the company and to customers. I spoke last week to someone who has worked for all of Microsoft, Apple and Google (though presently working for none of them), who noted that unlike the other two companies, in Google the attitude is that 'it's software on the web. If you get it wrong, then you just roll it back to how it was before.'"
• Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision
  "The idea of a single-vendor network has been promoted by Cisco (just like strong vendors in other market areas) as a way to simplify operations, ensure reliability and lower the TCO [total cost of ownership] for a network infrastructure," state Gartner analysts Mark Fabbi and Debra Curtis in the report. "However, after interviewing various organizations that have introduced a second vendor into their Cisco infrastructures, it is clear that in most cases today there is no financial, operational or functional basis for this argument. The reality is that a single-vendor Cisco network isn't necessarily less complex, easier to manage or more reliable than a network with multiple vendors when implemented with best practices."
• Amazon aims to ease cloud app deployment – Computing mobile
• Microsoft Admits App Glitch, Launches Direct Operator Billing
  "As of the end of Decem ber, 2010, there were 5,000 apps in Win dows Phone 7’s Mar ket place dig i tal store front. Not a big num ber when you com pare it to the 300,000 apps in Apple’s store, or 160,000+ apps in the Android Mar ket, but poten tial ly a more attrac tive envi ron ment for devel op ers tired of try ing to swim to the top in a sea of other prod ucts."
• Limo from the airport, sir?
• Micro Focus extends Cobol to Java and the cloud | Developer World – InfoWorld
  "Approximately 5 billion new lines of Cobol code are added to live systems every year, Micro Focus said. An estimate 200 billion lines of Cobol code are being used in business and finance applications today, the company said."
• An interview with Adam Lisagor : The Setup
• CA Technologies Delivers New and Enhanced Automation Solutions to Help Customers Accelerate the Journey from Virtualization to Cloud Computing
• A Year After: The Open Source Projects « Castellers v2
  Goes over open source projects and products at Sun and their state now. Also has list of companies created around some of the projects.
• From the Mule’s Mouth » Blog Archive » Building Rich Browser-based Apps with Mule Cloud Connect
• TripIt Joins Concur to Become Bigger, Better and Stronger – TripIt Blog
  let's hope they don't get Nokia'ed.
• Building a Cloud that Fits: BMC Software Offers Policy Control and Customization to Cloud Customers
  "BMC is extending its leadership in cloud service management with the announcement that the upcoming version of its Cloud Lifecycle Management solution is being made available today to an exclusive group of enterprises and service providers."
• The Right Cloud For You: The BMC Announcement
• ManageEngine Adds Hyper-V Support to Application Manager
• Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk auto-scales your cloud application
• Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number
• Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store
  "So 320,000 people downloaded Evernote in the first week and 120,000 of them became new users. What happened to the rest? Well, about 80,000 people were either switching their Mac client from our direct-download version to the app store version or had simply downloaded the app and didn’t complete registration. Another 100,000 people were existing users who had previously used Evernote from other platforms (mostly the iPhone) and added the Mac version for the first time."

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